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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Exium

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Exium with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Exium with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Exium.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Exium with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • Exium single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

To configure the integration of Exium into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Exium from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
  3. In the Add from the gallery section, type Exium in the search box.
  4. Select Exium from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Exium

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Exium using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Exium.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Exium, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure Exium SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Exium test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Exium that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Exium > Single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://subapi.exium.net/saml/<WORKSPACE_ID>/metadata

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://subapi.exium.net/saml/<WORKSPACE_ID>/acs

    c. In the Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://service.exium.net/sign-in

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Exium Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, In the SAML Signing Certificate section, click copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Display name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
    3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
    4. Select Review + create.
  5. Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to Exium.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Exium.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
    1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
    2. If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
    3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Exium SSO

  1. Sign in to Exium company site as an administrator.

  2. In the Admin Console, select Company Profile panel.

    screenshot for admin console

  3. In the Profile, click on SSO Settings and Edit it.

  4. Perform the below steps in the SSO Settings section.

    screenshot for SSO Settings

    a. Select SSO Type as Microsoft Entra ID from the dropdown.

    b. Paste the App Federation Metadata Url value in the SAML 2.0 IDP Metadata URL field.

    c. Copy SAML 2.0 SSO URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

    d. Copy SAML 2.0 SP Entity ID value, paste this value into the Identifier text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

    e. Click on Update.

Create Exium test user

  1. Sign in to Exium company site as an administrator.

  2. Go to the User Management -> Users and click on Add User.

    screenshot for create test user

  3. Enter the required fields in the following page and click on Save.

    screenshot for create test user fields with save button

Note

Exium also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Exium Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Exium Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Exium tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Exium Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Exium you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.