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

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

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to Fluxx Labs.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Fluxx Labs 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.
  • Fluxx Labs single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • Fluxx Labs supports IDP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of Fluxx Labs into Azure AD, you need to add Fluxx Labs 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 Fluxx Labs in the search box.
  6. Select Fluxx Labs 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 Fluxx Labs

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Fluxx Labs 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 Fluxx Labs.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Fluxx Labs, 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 Fluxx Labs SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Fluxx Labs test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Fluxx Labs 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 Fluxx Labs 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.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  4. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Environment URL Pattern
    Production https://<subdomain>.fluxx.io
    Pre production https://<subdomain>.preprod.fluxxlabs.com

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Environment URL Pattern
    Production https://<subdomain>.fluxx.io/auth/saml/callback
    Pre production https://<subdomain>.preprod.fluxxlabs.com/auth/saml/callback

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Fluxx Labs 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, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  6. On the Set up Fluxx Labs section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

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 Fluxx Labs.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
  2. In the applications list, select Fluxx Labs.
  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 Fluxx Labs SSO

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your Fluxx Labs company site as administrator.

  2. Select Admin below the Settings section.

    Screenshot that shows the "Settings" section with "Admin" selected.

  3. In the Admin Panel, Select Plug-ins > Integrations and then select SAML SSO-(Disabled)

    Screenshot that shows the "Integrations" tab with "S A M L S S O- (Disabled) selected.

  4. In the attribute section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot that shows the "Attributes" section with "S A M L S S O" checked, values entered in fields, and the "Save" button selected.

    a. Select the SAML SSO checkbox.

    b. In the Request Path textbox, type /auth/saml.

    c. In the Callback Path textbox, type /auth/saml/callback.

    d. In the Assertion Consumer Service Url(Single Sign-On URL) textbox, enter the Reply URL value, which you have entered in the Azure portal.

    e. In the Audience(SP Entity ID) textbox, enter the Identifier value, which you have entered in the Azure portal.

    f. In the Identity Provider SSO Target URL textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

    g. Open your base-64 encoded certificate in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the Identity Provider Certificate textbox.

    h. In Name identifier Format textbox, enter the value urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress.

    i. Click Save.

    Note

    Once the content saved, the field will appear blank for security, but the value has been saved in the configuration.

Create Fluxx Labs test user

To enable Azure AD users to sign in to Fluxx Labs, they must be provisioned into Fluxx Labs. In the case of Fluxx Labs, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Fluxx Labs company site as an administrator.

  2. Click on the below displayed icon.

    Screenshot that shows administrator options with the "Plus" icon selected under "Your Dashboard is Empty".

  3. On the dashboard, click on the below displayed icon to open the New PEOPLE card.

    Screenshot that shows the "Contact Management" menu with the "Plus" icon next to "People" selected.

  4. On the NEW PEOPLE section, perform the following steps:

    Fluxx Labs Configuration

    a. Fluxx Labs use email as the unique identifier for SSO logins. Populate the SSO UID field with the user’s email address, that matches the email address, which they are using as login with SSO.

    b. Click Save.

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 and you should be automatically signed in to the Fluxx Labs for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Fluxx Labs tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Fluxx Labs 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 Fluxx Labs 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.