Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console

In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console with Microsoft Entra ID. The Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) gives customers powerful integration capabilities to leverage investments across their security and IT stacks. When you integrate Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

You'll configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on for Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console in a test environment. Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console supports SP initiated single sign-on.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console, you need:

• A Microsoft Entra user account. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Application Owner.
• A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Add application and assign a test user

Before you begin the process of configuring single sign-on, you need to add the Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console application from the Microsoft Entra gallery. You need a test user account to assign to the application and test the single sign-on configuration.

Add Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console from the Microsoft Entra gallery

Add Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to configure single sign-on with Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console. For more information on how to add application from the gallery, see the Quickstart: Add application from the gallery.

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

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

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, and assign roles. The wizard also provides a link to the single sign-on configuration pane. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards..

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Complete the following steps to enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console > 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, perform the following steps:

   a. In the Identifier textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<Cloud_Exchange_FQDN>/api/metadata

   b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<Cloud_Exchange_FQDN>/api/ssoauth?acs=true

   c. In the Sign on URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<Cloud_Exchange_FQDN>/login

   Note

   These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL based on your cloud exchange deployment. You can also contact Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console support team to get help to determine these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

6. Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console 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.

   

7. In addition to above, Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console 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
   username	user.mail
   roles	user.assignedroles

   Note

   Please click here to know how to configure Role in Microsoft Entra ID.

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.

   

9. On the Set up Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Configure Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console SSO

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

Create Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon at Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console SSO. Work with Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console support team to add the users in the Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console 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.

• Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

• Go to Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

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

Additional resources

• What is single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?
• Plan a single sign-on deployment.

Next steps

Once you configure Netskope Cloud Exchange Administration Console 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.