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

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

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

Scenario description

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Visibly 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 Visibly.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Visibly, 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 Visibly SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Visibly test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Visibly 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 > Visibly > 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, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://app.visibly.io/

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type the URL: https://api.visibly.io/api/v1/verifyResponse

  6. Visibly 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.

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  7. In addition to above, Visibly application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

    Name Source Attribute
    city user.city
    lastName user.surname
    state user.state
    department user.department
    email user.mail

  8. 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

  9. On the Set up Visibly 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 Visibly.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Visibly.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  6. If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Visibly SSO

  1. Sign in to Visibly using your credentials.

  2. Navigate to the Settings option from the navigation menu.

    Screenshot shows the settings option selected.

  3. Click Integrations within Settings.

    Screenshot shows Integrations selected from the Settings menu.

  4. In the Integrations, select SSO.

    Screenshot shows S S O selected from the Integrations.

  5. Perform the following steps in the following page.

    Screenshot shows S S O Integration page where you can enter the values described.

    a. In the Entity ID textbox, paste the Entity ID value which you copied previously.

    b. In the SSO url textbox, paste the Login URL value which you copied previously.

    c. In the SSO name textbox, give any valid name.

    d. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and paste the content into the Certificate textbox or you can also upload the Certificate by selecting the Upload Certificate.

    e. Click Save.

Create Visibly test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Visibly. Visibly 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 Visibly, a new one is created after authentication.

Visibly also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

Test SSO

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

  • Click Test this application in Azure portal. This will redirect to Visibly Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Visibly 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.