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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Coupa Risk Assess

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Coupa Risk Assess supports SP and IDP initiated SSO

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Coupa Risk Assess 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 Coupa Risk Assess.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Coupa Risk Assess, 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 Coupa Risk Assess SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Coupa Risk Assess test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Coupa Risk Assess 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 > Coupa Risk Assess > 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 edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern:

    • For Staging: https://<STAGING ENTITY>.hiperos.com/sp/<CUSTOMERIDENTIFIER>.login

    • For PROD: https://<PROD ENTITY>.hiperos.com/sp/<CUSTOMERIDENTIFIER>.login

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:

    • For Staging: https://<STAGING ENTITY>.hiperos.com/sp/<CUSTOMERIDENTIFIER>.login

    • For PROD: https://<PROD ENTITY>.hiperos.com/sp/<CUSTOMERIDENTIFIER>.login

  6. 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 a URL using the following pattern:

    • For Staging: https://<STAGING ENTITY>.hiperos.com/sp/<CUSTOMERIDENTIFIER>.login

    • For PROD: https://<PROD ENTITY>.hiperos.com/sp/<CUSTOMERIDENTIFIER>.login

    Note

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

  7. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up Coupa Risk Assess 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 [email protected]. For example, [email protected].
    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 Coupa Risk Assess.

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

To configure single sign-on on Coupa Risk Assess side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Coupa Risk Assess support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Coupa Risk Assess test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Coupa Risk Assess. Work with Coupa Risk Assess support team to add the users in the Coupa Risk Assess 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.

SP initiated:

  1. Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Coupa Risk Assess Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  2. Go to Coupa Risk Assess 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 Coupa Risk Assess for which you set up the SSO

You can also use Microsoft Access Panel to test the application in any mode. When you click the Coupa Risk Assess tile in the Access Panel, 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 Coupa Risk Assess for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

Next steps

Once you configure Coupa Risk Assess 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.