Configure Discovery Benefits SSO for Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID

In this article, you learn how to integrate Discovery Benefits SSO with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Discovery Benefits SSO with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this article assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• A Microsoft Entra user account with an active subscription. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles:
  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Application Owner.

• Discovery Benefits SSO single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Discovery Benefits SSO supports IDP initiated SSO.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

Add Discovery Benefits SSO from the gallery

To configure the integration of Discovery Benefits SSO into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Discovery Benefits 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 Entra ID > Enterprise apps > New application.
3. In the Add from the gallery section, type Discovery Benefits SSO in the search box.
4. Select Discovery Benefits 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Discovery Benefits SSO

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Discovery Benefits 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 Discovery Benefits SSO.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Discovery Benefits SSO, 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 Discovery Benefits SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Discovery Benefits SSO test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Discovery Benefits SSO that's 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 Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Discovery Benefits 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, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section the application is pre-configured in IDP initiated mode and the necessary URLs are already pre-populated with Azure. The user needs to save the configuration by selecting the Save button.

6. Discovery Benefits SSO 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. Select Edit icon to open User Attributes dialog.

   

   a. Select Edit icon to open the Unique User Identifier (Name ID) dialog.

   

   

   b. Select Edit icon to open the Manage transformation dialog.

   c. In the Transformation textbox, type the ToUppercase() shown for that row.

   d. In the Parameter 1 textbox, type the parameter like <Name Identifier value>.

   e. Select Add.

   Note

   Discovery Benefits SSO requires a fixed string value to be passed in Unique User Identifier (Name ID) field to get this integration working. Microsoft Entra ID currently doesn't support this feature so as a work around, you can use ToUpper or ToLower transformations of NameID to set a fixed string value as shown above in the screenshot.

   f. We have auto-populated the additional claims which are required for SSO configuration (SSOInstance and SSOID). Use the pencil icon to map the values as per your organization.

   

7. 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.

   

8. On the Set up Discovery Benefits SSO section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account quickstart to create a test user account called B.Simon.

Configure Discovery Benefits SSO

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

Create Discovery Benefits SSO test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Discovery Benefits SSO. Work with Discovery Benefits SSO support team to add the users in the Discovery Benefits 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.

• Select Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Discovery Benefits SSO for which you set up the SSO.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you select the Discovery Benefits SSO tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Discovery Benefits SSO for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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Once you configure Discovery Benefits 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.