Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Clebex

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

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

Scenario description

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Clebex 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 Clebex.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Clebex, 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 Clebex SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Clebex test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Clebex 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 > Clebex > 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, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerName>.domain.extention/<ID>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerName>.domain.extention/<ID>

    c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerName>.domain.extention/<ID>

    Note

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

  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.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Clebex 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 Clebex.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Clebex.
  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 Clebex SSO

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

  2. Go to the COMPANY ADMIN -> Connectors -> Single Sign On (SSO) and click select.

    Screenshot to select connector type.

  3. In the CONNECTORS, select Azure SSO and perform the following steps in the EDIT-CONNECTOR section.

    Screenshot to select connectors and configuration.

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

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

    c. In the ENTITY ID textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value which you copied previously.

    d. In the SAML textbox, paste the Login URL value which you copied previously.

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

    f. Click SAVE-CHANGES.

Create Clebex test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Clebex. Clebex 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 Clebex, a new one is created after authentication.

Clebex 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 Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Clebex Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Clebex 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.