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Tutorial: Integrate Carbonite Endpoint Backup with Azure Active Directory

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Carbonite Endpoint Backup with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Carbonite Endpoint Backup with Azure AD, you can:

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to Carbonite Endpoint Backup.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Carbonite Endpoint Backup with their Azure AD accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • Carbonite Endpoint Backup single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.

  • Carbonite Endpoint Backup supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

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 Carbonite Endpoint Backup into Azure AD, you need to add Carbonite Endpoint Backup from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
  2. On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
  3. Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
  4. To add new application, select New application.
  5. In the Add from the gallery section, type Carbonite Endpoint Backup in the search box.
  6. Select Carbonite Endpoint Backup 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 Azure AD SSO for Carbonite Endpoint Backup

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Carbonite Endpoint Backup using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in Carbonite Endpoint Backup.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Carbonite Endpoint Backup, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
  2. Configure Carbonite Endpoint Backup SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Carbonite Endpoint Backup test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Carbonite Endpoint Backup that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.

  1. In the Azure portal, on the Carbonite Endpoint Backup application integration page, find the Manage section and select Single sign-on.

  2. On the Select a Single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  3. 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

  4. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type one of the following URLs:

    https://red-us.mysecuredatavault.com
https://red-apac.mysecuredatavault.com
https://red-fr.mysecuredatavault.com
https://red-emea.mysecuredatavault.com
https://kamino.mysecuredatavault.com

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type one of the following URLs:

    https://red-us.mysecuredatavault.com/AssertionConsumerService.aspx
https://red-apac.mysecuredatavault.com/AssertionConsumerService.aspx
https://red-fr.mysecuredatavault.com/AssertionConsumerService.aspx
https://red-emea.mysecuredatavault.com/AssertionConsumerService.aspx

  5. 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 one of the following URLs:

    https://red-us.mysecuredatavault.com/
https://red-apac.mysecuredatavault.com/
https://red-fr.mysecuredatavault.com/
https://red-emea.mysecuredatavault.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 Carbonite Endpoint Backup section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

Create an Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.

  1. From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
  2. Select New user at the top of the screen.
  3. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User 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. Click Create.

Assign the Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Carbonite Endpoint Backup.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
  2. In the applications list, select Carbonite Endpoint Backup.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  6. 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.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Carbonite Endpoint Backup SSO

  1. To automate the configuration within Carbonite Endpoint Backup, you need to install My Apps Secure Sign-in browser extension by clicking Install the extension.

    My apps extension

  2. After adding extension to the browser, click on Setup Carbonite Endpoint Backup will direct you to the Carbonite Endpoint Backup application. From there, provide the admin credentials to sign into Carbonite Endpoint Backup. The browser extension will automatically configure the application for you and automate steps 3-7.

    Setup configuration

  3. If you want to setup Carbonite Endpoint Backup manually, open a new web browser window and sign into your Carbonite Endpoint Backup company site as an administrator and perform the following steps:

  4. Click on the Company from the left pane.

    Screenshot shows Carbonite Endpoint with Company selected.

  5. Click on Single sign-on.

    Screenshot shows Company with Single sign-on selected.

  6. Click on Enable and then click Edit settings to configure.

    Screenshot shows the Single sign-on tab with Enable and Edit settings called out.

  7. On the Single sign-on settings page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Single sign-on tab with the information described in this step.

    1. In the Identity provider name textbox, paste the Azure AD Identifier value, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

    2. In the Identity provider URL textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

    3. Click on Choose file to upload the downloaded Certificate(Base64) file from the Azure portal.

    4. Click Save.

Create Carbonite Endpoint Backup test user

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your Carbonite Endpoint Backup company site as an administrator.

  2. Click on the Users from the left pane and then click Add user.

    Screenshot shows the Carbonite Endpoint page with Users and Add users selected.

  3. On the Add user page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Add user page where you can perform the steps described here.

    1. Enter the Email, First name, Last name of the user and provide the required permissions to the user according to the Organizational requirements.

    2. Click Add user.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application in Azure portal. This will redirect to Carbonite Endpoint Backup Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Carbonite Endpoint Backup Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application in Azure portal and you should be automatically signed in to the Carbonite Endpoint Backup 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 Carbonite Endpoint Backup 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 Carbonite Endpoint Backup 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 Carbonite Endpoint Backup 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.