Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Adaptive Shield

In this article, you learn how to integrate Adaptive Shield with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Adaptive Shield with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Adaptive Shield.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Adaptive Shield with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this article assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• A Microsoft Entra user account with an active subscription. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles:
  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Application Owner.

• Adaptive Shield single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Adaptive Shield supports SP initiated SSO.

• Adaptive Shield 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.

Add Adaptive Shield from the gallery

To configure the integration of Adaptive Shield into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Adaptive Shield 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 Adaptive Shield in the search box.
4. Select Adaptive Shield 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Adaptive Shield

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Adaptive Shield 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 Adaptive Shield.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Adaptive Shield, 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 Adaptive Shield SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Adaptive Shield test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Adaptive Shield that's 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 > Adaptive Shield > 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 (Entity ID) text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.adaptive-shield.com/api/sso/saml

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.adaptive-shield.com/api/sso/saml

   c. In the Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://dashboard.adaptive-shield.com

6. 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.

   

7. On the Set up Adaptive Shield section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

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

Configure Adaptive Shield SSO

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

Create Adaptive Shield test user

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

Test SSO

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

• Select Test this application, this option redirects to Adaptive Shield Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you select the Adaptive Shield tile in the My Apps, this option redirects to Adaptive Shield Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

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