Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Synerise AI Growth Operating System

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Synerise supports SP and IDP initiated SSO
  • Synerise supports Just In Time user provisioning

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 Synerise into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Synerise 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 Synerise AI Growth Operating System in the search box.
  4. Select Synerise AI Growth Operating System 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 Synerise AI Growth Operating System

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Synerise 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 Synerise.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Synerise, 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 Synerise AI Growth Operating System SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Synerise AI Growth Operating System test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Synerise 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 > Synerise AI Growth Operating System > 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, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, enter the values for the following fields:

    In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.synerise.com/api-portal/uauth/saml/auth/<PROFILE_HASH>

  6. Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.synerise.com/api-portal/uauth/saml/auth/<PROFILE_HASH>

    Note

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

  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.

    The Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up Synerise 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 Synerise.

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

  1. Log in to the Synerise as an administrator.

  2. Go to the Settings > Access Control.

    Synerise settings

  3. In the Access Control page, click on Show button in the Single Sign-On tab.

    Synerise Access Control

  4. Perform the following steps in the below page.

    Synerise configuration

    a. In the Identifier Provider Entity ID textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value which you copied previously.

    b. In the SSO endpoint(https) textbox, paste the Login URL value which you copied previously.

    c. In the Identity Provider application ID textbox, paste the application ID value.

    d. Copy Service Provider redirect URI value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

    e. Select HTTP REDIRECT in the Request binding.

    f. Switch on the Request signature.

    g. Upload the downloaded Certificate(Base64) file in to the Identity Provider Signature Certificate.

    i. Click on Apply.

Create Synerise AI Growth Operating System test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Synerise. Synerise supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Synerise, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

SP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Synerise Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Synerise for which you set up the SSO

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Synerise tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Synerise for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Synerise 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.