Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with Exium

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Exium with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Exium with Azure AD, you can:

• Control in Azure AD who has access to Exium.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Exium with their Azure AD accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

• An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Exium single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.

• Exium supports SP initiated SSO.
• Exium supports Automated user provisioning.

Adding Exium from the gallery

To configure the integration of Exium into Azure AD, you need to add Exium from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
2. On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
3. Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
4. To add new application, select New application.
5. In the Add from the gallery section, type Exium in the search box.
6. Select Exium from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Configure and test Azure AD SSO for Exium

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Exium using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in Exium.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Exium, perform the following steps:

1. Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
   1. Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
   2. Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
2. Configure Exium SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Exium test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Exium that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.

1. In the Azure portal, on the Exium application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.

2. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

3. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

4. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, enter the values for the following fields:

   a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://subapi.exium.net/saml/<WORKSPACE_ID>/metadata

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://subapi.exium.net/saml/<WORKSPACE_ID>/acs

   c. In the Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://service.exium.net/sign-in

   Note

   These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Exium Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.

5. 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.

   

Create an Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.

1. From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
2. Select New user at the top of the screen.
3. In the User properties, follow these steps:
   1. In the Name field, enter B.Simon.
   2. In the User 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. Click Create.

Assign the Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Exium.

1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
2. In the applications list, select Exium.
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 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.
7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Exium SSO

1. Sign in to Exium company site as an administrator.

2. In the Admin Console, select Company Profile panel.

   

3. In the Profile, click on SSO Settings and Edit it.

4. Perform the below steps in the SSO Settings section.

   

   a. Select SSO Type as AzureAD from the dropdown.

   b. Paste the App Federation Metadata Url value in the SAML 2.0 IDP Metadata URL field.

   c. Copy SAML 2.0 SSO URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.

   d. Copy SAML 2.0 SP Entity ID value, paste this value into the Identifier text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.

   e. Click on Update.

Create Exium test user

1. Sign in to Exium company site as an administrator.

2. Go to the User Management -> Users and click on Add User.

   

3. Enter the required fields in the following page and click on Save.

   

Note

Exium 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 Azure AD single sign-on configuration with following options.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Exium 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.