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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Baldwin Safety and Compliance

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Baldwin Safety and Compliance with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Baldwin Safety and Compliance with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Scenario description

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

  • Baldwin Safety and Compliance supports IDP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Baldwin Safety and Compliance 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 Baldwin Safety and Compliance.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Baldwin Safety and Compliance, 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 Baldwin Safety and Compliance SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Baldwin Safety and Compliance test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Baldwin Safety and Compliance 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 > Baldwin Safety and Compliance > 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 the application is pre-configured in IDP initiated mode and the necessary URLs are already pre-populated with Azure. The user needs to save the configuration by clicking the Save button.

  6. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Edit button to open SAML Signing Certificate dialog.

    Edit SAML Signing Certificate

  7. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, copy the Thumbprint Value and save it on your computer.

    Copy Thumbprint value

  8. On the Set up Baldwin Safety and Compliance 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 Baldwin Safety and Compliance.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Baldwin Safety and Compliance.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
    1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
    2. 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.
    3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Baldwin Safety and Compliance SSO

To configure single sign-on on Baldwin Safety and Compliance side, you need to send the Thumbprint Value and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Baldwin Safety and Compliance support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Baldwin Safety and Compliance test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Baldwin Safety and Compliance. Work with Baldwin Safety and Compliance support team to add the users in the Baldwin Safety and Compliance 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, and you should be automatically signed in to the Baldwin Safety and Compliance for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Baldwin Safety and Compliance tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Baldwin Safety and Compliance 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 Baldwin Safety and Compliance 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.