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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Kisi Physical Security

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Kisi Physical Security supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • Kisi Physical Security supports Just In Time user provisioning.
  • Kisi Physical Security supports Automated user provisioning.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Kisi Physical 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 Kisi Physical Security.

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

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type the URL: https://api.kisi.io/saml/metadata

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://api.kisi.io/saml/consume/<DOMAIN>

    Note

    DOMAIN is a lowercase alphanumeric identifier assigned to the organization by Kisi, it's not the same as the organization's DNS domain name.*

  6. Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://web.kisi.io/organizations/sign_in?domain=<DOMAIN>

    Note

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

  7. Kisi Physical 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.

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  8. In addition to above, Kisi Physical 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
    FirstName user.givenname
    LastName user.surname
    Email user.userprincipalname

  9. 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 Kisi Physical Security.

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

To configure single sign-on on Kisi Physical Security side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to Kisi Physical Security support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Kisi Physical Security test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Kisi Physical Security. Kisi Physical Security supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Kisi Physical Security, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

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

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

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Kisi Physical Security for which you set up the SSO.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Kisi Physical Security tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Kisi Physical Security for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Kisi Physical 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.