Coalfire Single Sign-On SSO
miniOrange provides a ready to use solution for Coalfire. Coalfire has worked at the cutting edge of technology to help public and private sector organizations solve their toughest cybersecurity problems and fuel their overall success.
miniOrange and Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) integration supports the following features:
- SP Initiated Single Sign-On (SSO)
- IdP Initiated Single Sign-On (SSO)
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Shibboleth, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more.
Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO)
1. Configure Coalfire in miniOrange
- Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) add app](/images/common-template-saml-images/add-app.webp)
- In Choose Application Type click on SAML/WS-FED application type.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) choose app type](/images/common-template-saml-images/select-saml-app.webp)
- Search for Coalfire in the list, if you don't find Coalfire in the list then, search for custom and you can set up your application via Custom SAML App.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) manage apps](/images/common-template-saml-images/search-saml-custom-app.webp)
- In Basic Settings tab fill the following details, to view the endpoints, in Coalfire Admin Dashboard, from the Identity Providers page, click Actions and select Endpoints.
SP Entity ID or Issuer:
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https://www.coalfire.com/sso/saml |
ACS URL:
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https://www.coalfire.com/sso/saml |
Name ID:
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E-mail Address |
![Coalfire Single Sign On (sso) Add IDP](/images/coalfire/coalfire-basic-settings.webp)
- Click Next, now in the Attribute Mapping configure the following attributes as shown in the image below.
![Coalfire Single Sign On (sso) Add Attribute](/images/mediasite/add-attribute.webp)
- To upload respective app logo for a Custom SAML App, click on Upload Logo tab.
![Coalfire Single Sign On (sso) Update logo](/images/common-template-saml-images/custom-saml-app-upload-logo.webp)
- Click Save
- Your application is saved successfully. Now click on the Select button against your newly created application. Go to Metadata.
![Coalfire Single Sign On (sso) Select Metadata](/images/coalfire/coalfire-metadata-details.webp)
- On the Metadata page -
1. If you want to use miniOrange as User-Store i.e., your user identities will be stored in miniOrange then download the metadata file under the heading 'INFORMATION REQUIRED TO SET MINIORANGE AS IDP'.
2. If you want to authenticate your users via any external Identity Provider like Active Directory, Okta, OneLogin, Google, Apple ID, etc then download the Metadata file under the heading 'INFORMATION REQUIRED TO AUTHENTICATE VIA EXTERNAL IDPS'.
![Coalfire Single Sign On (sso) View IdP metadata](images/mediasite/view-idp-metadata.webp)
- Then click on Download Metadata.
2. Configure SSO in Coalfire Admin Account
- Select CoalfireOne Connect from the menu and locate the SAML/SSO configuration.
- From the SAML connect box, click the down arrow to open the configuration options.
- Scroll to the bottom and click to download the SAML CoalfireOne Metadata file. Use this data in
this file to configure your SAML protocol with all your providers.
- Once the configuration is complete, complete the following fields. These are the field names used to
configure your SAML protocol, not an actual user's information.
- First Name
- Last Name
- Email
- Phone
- Check whether to Use Phone value as constant in the configuration to enter the same phone
value for everyone.
- Complete the Username field.
- Check whether to enable User Transformation and enter the User Transformation Formula.
- Complete a Company Friendly Name, if desired.
- Complete the Domains field with all the company domains.
- Click Upload to upload your SAML Descriptor Files, which describe your configuration protocol to
CoalfireOne.
- Click to download the SAML Response Encryption Key.
- Click Save.
- The status changes to "Pending Validation." Saving sends a message to CoalfireOne support to
review and validate the configuration and complete the connection.
Once connected, SAML/SSO will show as connected on the main CoalfireOne Connect page.
3. Test SSO Configuration
Test SSO login to your Coalfire account with miniOrange IdP:
4. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
- Click on External Directories >> Add Directory in the left menu of the dashboard.
![Coalfire: Configure User Store](/images/common-template-saml-images/add-user-store.webp)
- Select Directory type as AD/LDAP.
![Coalfire: Select AD/LDAP as user store](/images/common-template-saml-images/select-ad-ldap.webp)
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway in your premise.
![Coalfire: Select ad/ldap user store type](/images/common-template-saml-images/ldap-user-store.webp)
- Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
- Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
- Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
- Click on Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.
![Coalfire: Configure LDAP server URL Connection](/images/common-template-saml-images/test-ldap-connection.webp)
- In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for Distinguished Name attribute.
![Coalfire: Configure user bind account domain name](/images/common-template-saml-images/adfs-distinguished-name.webp)
- Enter the valid Bind account Password.
- Click on Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.
![Coalfire: Check bind account credentials](/images/common-template-saml-images/test-bind-account-credentials.webp)
- Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.
![Coalfire: Configure user search base](/images/common-template-saml-images/adfs-search-base.webp)
- Select a suitable Search filter from the drop-down menu. If you use User in Single Group Filter or User in Multiple Group Filter, replace the <group-dn> in the search filter with the distinguished name of the group in which your users are present. To use custom Search Filter select "Write your Custom Filter" option and customize it accordingly.
![Coalfire: Select user search filter](/images/common-template-saml-images/adfs-search-filter.webp)
- You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save button to add user store.
![Coalfire: Activate LDAP options](/images/common-template-saml-images/ldap-options.webp)
Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.
Attribute |
Description |
Activate LDAP |
All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it |
Sync users in miniOrange |
Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP |
Fallback Authentication |
If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange |
Allow users to change password |
This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server |
Enable administrator login |
On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server |
Show IdP to users |
If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users |
Send Configured Attributes |
If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login |
- Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Connection to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.
![Coalfire: Test AD/Ldap connection](/images/common-template-saml-images/ldap-test-connections.webp)
- On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
- Click on Test Attribute Mapping.
![Coalfire LDAP successful connection](/images/common-template-saml-images/attribute-mapping.webp)
- Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.
![Coalfire: Fetch mapped attributes for user](/images/common-template-saml-images/active-directory-fetched-attributes.webp)
- After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.
Refer our guide to setup LDAPS on windows server.
User Import and Provisioning from AD
- Go to Settings >> Product Settings in the Customer Admin Account.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for miniOrange dashboard](/images/template-images/switch-to-settings.webp)
- Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Enable User Auto Registration](/images/common/enable-user-auto-register.webp)
- (Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration](/images/common/enable-sending-welcome-emails-after-user-registration.webp)
- From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for User Sync/Provisioning](/images/vpn-template/vpn-user-sync.webp)
- In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application drop-down.
- Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for User Sync Active Directory Configuration](/images/template-images/ad-user-sync.webp)
- On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
- Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for User Sync Import Operation](/images/template-images/import-users.webp)
- You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.
![MFA/Two-Factor Authentication(2FA) for User List](/images/template-images/check-users-list.webp)
- All the imported users will be auto registered.
- These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
5. Adaptive Authentication with Coalfire
A. Restricting access to Coalfire with IP Blocking
B. Adaptive Authentication with Limiting number of devices.
Using Adaptive Authentication you can also restrict the number of devices the end user can access the Services on. You can allow end users to access services on a fixed no. of devices. The end users will be able to access services provided by us on this fixed no. of devices.
You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Device Restriction in following way
- Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
- Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
- Select your Action for behavior Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behavior Change Section.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) Restrict Access adaptive authentication behavior and challenge type](/images/common-template-saml-images/behavior-change.webp)
- Scroll down to Device Configuration section and enable Allow User to Register Device option to allow users to register their devices.
- Enter the Number of Devices which are allowed to register in field next to Number of Device Registrations Allowed
- Choose Action if number of devices exceeded (This will override your setting for Action for behavior Change.)
- Challenge: The user needs to verify himself using any of the three methods mentioned in table in step 5.1
- Deny : Deny users access to the system
- Enable option Send email alerts to Users if number of Device registrations exceeded allowed count if you want to alert the user about no of devices exceeding the limit. Save the configuration.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) Restrict Access adaptive authentication enable device restriction](/images/common-template-saml-images/enable-device-restriction.webp)
C. Add Adaptive Authentication policy to Coalfire.
- Login to Self Service Console >> Policies.
- Click on Edit option for predefined app policy.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (sso) edit device restriction policy](/images/common-template-images/edit-2fa-policy.webp)
- Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
- Enable Adaptive Authentication on Policy page and select the required restriction method as an option.
- From Select Login Policy dropdown select the policy we created in last step and click on save.
![Coalfire Single Sign-On (SSO) Restrict Access save device restriction policy](/images/common-template-saml-images/save-adaptive-authentication.webp)
D.Notification and Alert Message.
How to add a trusted Device
- When End-user log in to the self service console after the policy for device restriction is on, he is provided the option to add the current device as a trusted device.
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