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

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

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

Scenario description

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

• Hosted MyCirqa SSO supports SP initiated SSO.

Add Hosted MyCirqa SSO from the gallery

To configure the integration of Hosted MyCirqa SSO into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Hosted MyCirqa SSO 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 Hosted MyCirqa SSO in the search box.
4. Select Hosted MyCirqa SSO 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 Hosted MyCirqa SSO

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Hosted MyCirqa SSO 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 Hosted MyCirqa SSO.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Hosted MyCirqa SSO, perform the following steps:

1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
   • Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
   • Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
2. Configure Hosted MyCirqa SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   • Create Hosted MyCirqa SSO test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Hosted MyCirqa SSO 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 > Hosted MyCirqa SSO > 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.

   

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://<SUBDOMAIN>.cirqahosting.com/CirqaIdentity/external?

   b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://isoxford.com/<CUSTOMID>/cirqaidentity/saml2

   Note

   These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact [Hosted MyCirqa SSO Client support team](not sure) to get these values. 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 copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

   

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 Hosted MyCirqa SSO.

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

To configure single sign-on on Hosted MyCirqa SSO side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to Hosted MyCirqa SSO support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Hosted MyCirqa SSO test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Hosted MyCirqa SSO. Work with Hosted MyCirqa SSO support team to add the users in the Hosted MyCirqa SSO platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

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 Hosted MyCirqa SSO Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

• Go to Hosted MyCirqa SSO Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Hosted MyCirqa SSO tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Hosted MyCirqa SSO Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Hosted MyCirqa SSO 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.