Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Invicti

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10/23/2023

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Invicti with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Invicti with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Invicti.
Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Invicti 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.
Invicti single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.

Scenario description

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

Invicti supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
Invicti supports Just In Time user provisioning.
Invicti supports Automated user provisioning.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

Add Invicti from the gallery

To configure the integration of Invicti into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Invicti from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
In the Add from the gallery section, type Invicti in the search box.
Select Invicti 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 Invicti

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Invicti 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 Invicti.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Invicti, perform the following steps:

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.
Configure Invicti SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
1. Create Invicti test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Invicti that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Invicti > Single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.netsparkercloud.com/account/assertionconsumerservice/?spId=<SPID>
Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://www.netsparkercloud.com/account/ssosignin/

Note

The Reply URL value is not real. Update the value with the actual Reply URL. Contact Invicti Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.
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.
On the Set up Invicti section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
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.
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 Invicti.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Invicti.
In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
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 Invicti SSO

Log in to Invicti as an Administrator.
Go to the Settings > Single Sign-On.
In the Single Sign-On window, select the Microsoft Entra ID tab.
Perform the following steps in the following page.

a. Copy the Identifier value, paste this value into the Identifier text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

b. Copy the SAML 2.0 Service URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

c. Paste the Identifier value into the IdP Identifier field.

d. Paste the Reply URL value into the SAML 2.0 Endpoint field.

e. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and paste the content into the x.509 Certificate textbox.

f. Check Enable Auto Provisioning and Require SAML assertions to be encrypted as required.

g. Click Save Changes.

Create Invicti test user

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

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Invicti Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Invicti Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Invicti for which you set up the SSO.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Invicti tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Invicti for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Invicti 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.