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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Adaptive Shield

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Adaptive Shield supports SP initiated SSO.

  • Adaptive Shield supports Just In Time 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 Adaptive Shield into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Adaptive Shield 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 Adaptive Shield in the search box.
  4. Select Adaptive Shield 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 Adaptive Shield

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Adaptive Shield 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 Adaptive Shield.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Adaptive Shield, 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 Adaptive Shield SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Adaptive Shield test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Adaptive Shield 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 > Adaptive Shield > 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, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.adaptive-shield.com/api/sso/saml

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.adaptive-shield.com/api/sso/saml

    c. In the Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.adaptive-shield.com

  6. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Adaptive Shield section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

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 Adaptive Shield.

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

To configure single sign-on on Adaptive Shield side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Adaptive Shield support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Adaptive Shield test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Adaptive Shield. Adaptive Shield 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 Adaptive Shield, a new one is created after authentication.

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 Adaptive Shield Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Adaptive Shield 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.