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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Panorama9

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Panorama9 with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Panorama9 with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Panorama9.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Panorama9 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.
  • Panorama9 single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • Panorama9 supports SP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of Panorama9 into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Panorama9 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 Panorama9 in the search box.
  4. Select Panorama9 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 Panorama9

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Panorama9 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 Panorama9.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Panorama9, 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 Panorama9 SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Panorama9 test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Panorama9 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 > Panorama9 > 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 Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.panorama9.com/saml/access/3262

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.panorama9.com/saml20/<TENANT_NAME>

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact the Panorama9 Client support team https://support.panorama9.com to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Edit button to open SAML Signing Certificate dialog.

    Edit SAML Signing Certificate

  7. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, copy the Thumbprint and save it on your computer.

    Copy Thumbprint value

  8. On the Set up Panorama9 section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 Panorama9.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Panorama9.
  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 Panorama9 SSO

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your Panorama9 company site as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Manage -> Extensions -> Single Sign-On.

  3. In the Settings section, perform the following steps:

    Settings

    a. Enable the Single Sign-On.

    b. In Identity URL textbox, paste the value of Identifier(Entity ID).

    c. In Certificate fingerprint textbox, paste the Thumbprint value of certificate.

  4. Click Save Changes.

Create Panorama9 test user

In order to enable Microsoft Entra users to sign in to Panorama9, they must be provisioned into Panorama9.

In the case of Panorama9, provisioning is a manual task.

To configure user provisioning, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Panorama9 company site as an administrator.

  2. In the Users section, type the email address of a valid Microsoft Entra user you want to provision into the Email textbox and give a valid Name.

    Users

  3. Click Create user.

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 Panorama9 Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Panorama9 Sign on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Panorama9 tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Panorama9 Sign on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Panorama9 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.