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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Silverback

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Silverback.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Silverback 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.
  • Silverback single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
  • Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.

Scenario description

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

  • Silverback supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Silverback 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 Silverback.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Silverback, 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 Silverback SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Silverback test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Silverback 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 > Silverback > 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.

    Screenshot shows to edit Basic S A M L Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier box, type a URL using the following pattern: <YOURSILVERBACKURL>.com

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<YOURSILVERBACKURL>.com/sts/authorize/login

    c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<YOURSILVERBACKURL>.com/ssp

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact Silverback Client support team 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.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

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 Silverback.

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

  1. In a different web browser, log in to your Silverback Server as an Administrator.

  2. Navigate to Admin > Authentication Provider.

  3. On the Authentication Provider Settings page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Authentication Provider Settings.

    a. Click on Import from URL.

    b. Paste the copied Metadata URL and click OK.

    c. Confirm with OK then the values will be populated automatically.

    d. Enable Show on Login Page.

    e. Enable Dynamic User Creation if you want to add by Microsoft Entra authorized users automatically (optional).

    f. Create a Title for the button on the Self Service Portal.

    g. Upload an Icon by clicking on Choose File.

    h. Select the background color for the button.

    i. Click Save.

Create Silverback test user

To enable Microsoft Entra users to log in to Silverback, they must be provisioned into Silverback. In Silverback, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to your Silverback Server as an Administrator.

  2. Navigate to Users and add a new device user.

  3. On the Basic page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the user account for Azure.

    a. In Username text box, enter the name of user like Britta.

    b. In First Name text box, enter the first name of user like Britta.

    c. In Last Name text box, enter the last name of user like Simon.

    d. In E-mail Address text box, enter the email of user like Brittasimon@contoso.com.

    e. In the Password text box, enter your password.

    f. In the Confirm Password text box, Reenter your password and confirm.

    g. Click Save.

Note

If you don’t want to create each user manually Enable the Dynamic User Creation Checkbox under Admin > Authentication Provider.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Silverback 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 Cloud App Security.