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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Capriza Platform

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Capriza Platform.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Capriza Platform 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.
  • Capriza Platform single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
  • Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

  • Capriza Platform supports SP initiated SSO.
  • Capriza Platform 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 Capriza Platform into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Capriza Platform 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 Capriza Platform in the search box.
  4. Select Capriza Platform 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 Capriza Platform

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Capriza Platform 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 Capriza Platform.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Capriza Platform, 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 Capriza Platform SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Capriza Platform test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Capriza Platform 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 > Capriza Platform application integration page, find the Manage section and select 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.

    Screenshot shows to edit Basic S A M L Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following step:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<companyname>.capriza.com/<tenantid>

    Note

    The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact Capriza Platform Client support team to get the value. 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 Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

  7. On the Set up Capriza Platform section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy appropriate configuration U R L.

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 Capriza Platform.

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

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

Create Capriza Platform test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in Capriza. Capriza supports just-in-time provisioning, which is by default enabled. Please make sure that your domain name is configured with Capriza for user provisioning. After that only the just-in-time user provisioning will work.

There is no action item for you in this section. A new user will be created during an attempt to access Capriza if it doesn't exist yet.

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 Capriza Platform Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Capriza Platform 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 Cloud App Security.