Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with TAP App Security

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

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to TAP App Security.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to TAP App Security 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.
• TAP App Security single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• TAP App Security supports SP initiated SSO.

• TAP App Security supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Adding TAP App Security from the gallery

To configure the integration of TAP App Security into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add TAP App Security 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 TAP App Security in the search box.
4. Select TAP App Security 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 TAP App Security

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with TAP App Security 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 TAP App Security.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with TAP App Security, 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 TAP App Security SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create TAP App Security test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in TAP App Security 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 > TAP App Security > 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.

   

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

   a. In the Identifier box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.tapappsecurity.com/<CUSTOMER_DOMAIN_WITHOUT_EXTENSION>/metadata

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.tapappsecurity.com/<CUSTOMER_DOMAIN_WITHOUT_EXTENSION>/acs

   c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://webapp.tapappsecurity.com/

   Note

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

6. TAP App Security application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

   

7. In addition to above, TAP App Security application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response, which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

   Name	Source Attribute
   email	user.mail
   first	user.givenname
   login	user.userprincipalname
   last	user.surname

8. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

9. On the Set up TAP App Security section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

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 TAP App Security.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > TAP App Security.
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 TAP App Security SSO

1. Log in to the TAP App Security website as an administrator.

2. Click Single Sign-On on the left navigation bar and then select Active Directory.

   

3. Click on the Integrate Active Directory app button. Then enter the domain of your organization and click Save button.

   

4. Click the gear icon as shown below.

   

5. Perform the following steps in the Active Directory integration page.

   

   a. Copy Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL) value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

   b. Copy Identifier (Entity ID) value, paste this value into the Identifier text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

   c. Click Choose File to upload the downloaded Federation Metadata XML file.

   d. Click Save.

Create TAP App Security test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in TAP App Security. TAP App Security supports just-in-time provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in TAP App Security, a new one is created when you attempt to access TAP App Security.

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 TAP App Security Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure TAP App Security 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.