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Tutorial to configure Azure Active Directory B2C with WhoIAM

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In this tutorial, learn how to configure WhoIAM Branded Identity Management System (BRIMS) in your environment and integrate it with Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C). The BRIMS apps and services are deployed in your environment. They provide user verification with voice, SMS, and email. BRIMS works with your identity and access management solution and is platform-agnostic.

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Prerequisites

To get started, you'll need:

Scenario description

The WhoIAM integration includes the following components:

  • Azure AD B2C tenant - The authorization server that verifies user credentials, based on custom policies, know as the identity provider (IdP)
  • Administration portal - To manage clients and their configurations
  • API service - To expose various features through endpoints
  • Azure Cosmos DB - The back end for the BRIMS administration portal and API service

The following diagram shows the implementation architecture.

Diagram of Azure AD B2C integration with WhoIAM.

  1. The user signs up or signs in to request an app that uses Azure AD B2C as IdP
  2. The user requests ownership verification of their email, phone, or they use voice as biometric verification
  3. Azure AD B2C calls to the BRIMS API service and passes the user attributes
  4. BRIMS interacts with the user in their own language
  5. After verification, BRIMS returns a token to Azure AD B2C, which grants access, or doesn't.

Sign up with WhoIAM

  1. Contact WhoIAM and create a BRIMS account.

  2. Configure the following Azure services:

  3. Deploy the BRIMS API and the BRIMS administration portal in your Azure environment.

  4. Follow the documentation to configure your app. Use BRIMS for user identity verification. Azure AD B2C custom policy samples are in the BRIMS sign-up documentation.
    For more information about WhoIAM BRIMS, request documentation on WhoIAM, Contact Us.

Test the user flow

  1. Open the Azure AD B2C tenant.
  2. Under Policies, select Identity Experience Framework.
  3. Select the created SignUpSignIn.
  4. Select Run user flow.
  5. For Application, select the registered app (example is JWT).
  6. For Reply URL, select the redirect URL.
  7. Select Run user flow.
  8. Complete the sign-up flow
  9. Create an account.
  10. After the user attribute is created, the BRIMS service is called.

Tip

If the flow is incomplete, confirm the user is saved in the directory.

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