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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with CloudPassage

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to CloudPassage.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed in to CloudPassage with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

To learn more about SaaS app integration with Microsoft Entra ID, see What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID.

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.
  • CloudPassage single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • CloudPassage supports SP 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 CloudPassage into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add CloudPassage 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 CloudPassage in the search box.
  4. Select CloudPassage 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 single sign-on for CloudPassage

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with CloudPassage 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 CloudPassage.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with CloudPassage, complete the following building blocks:

  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 CloudPassage SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create CloudPassage test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in CloudPassage 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 > CloudPassage > 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 edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://portal.cloudpassage.com/saml/init/accountid

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://portal.cloudpassage.com/saml/consume/accountid. You can get your value for this attribute by clicking SSO Setup documentation in the Single Sign-on Settings section of your CloudPassage portal.

    Screenshot shows the CloudPassage portal with the S S O Setup Documentation link called out.

    Note

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

  6. CloudPassage 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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  7. In addition to above, CloudPassage 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 requirement.

    Name Source Attribute
    firstname user.givenname
    lastname user.surname
    email user.mail

  8. 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

  9. On the Set up CloudPassage 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 CloudPassage.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > CloudPassage.

  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.

    The "Users and groups" link

  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.

    The Add User link

  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're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure CloudPassage SSO

  1. In a different browser window, sign-on to your CloudPassage company site as administrator.

  2. In the menu on the top, click Settings, and then click Site Administration.

    Screenshot shows the CloudPassage site with Site Administration selected.

  3. Click the Authentication Settings tab.

    Screenshot shows the CloudPassage site with the Authentication Settings tab selected.

  4. In the Single Sign-on Settings section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Single Sign-on Settings section where you can enter the information in this step.

    a. Select Enable Single sign-on(SSO)(SSO Setup Documentation) checkbox.

    b. Paste Microsoft Entra Identifier into the SAML issuer URL textbox.

    c. Paste Login URL into the SAML endpoint URL textbox.

    d. Paste Logout URL into the Logout landing page textbox.

    e. Open your downloaded certificate in notepad, copy the content of downloaded certificate into your clipboard, and then paste it into the x 509 certificate textbox.

    f. Click Save.

Create CloudPassage test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called B.Simon in CloudPassage.

To create a user called B.Simon in CloudPassage, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign-on to your CloudPassage company site as an administrator.

  2. In the toolbar on the top, click Settings, and then click Site Administration.

    Screenshot shows CloudPassage with Site Administration selected.

  3. Click the Users tab, and then click Add New User.

    Screenshot shows CloudPassage Site Administration with the Users tab selected and the option to Add New User.

  4. In the Add New User section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Add New User section where you can specify user information.

    a. In the First Name textbox, type Britta.

    b. In the Last Name textbox, type Simon.

    c. In the Username textbox, the Email textbox and the Retype Email textbox, type Britta's user name in Microsoft Entra ID.

    d. As Access Type, select Enable Halo Portal Access.

    e. Click Add.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration using the Access Panel.

When you click the CloudPassage tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the CloudPassage for which you set up SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

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