Duo Two-Factor Authentication for SailPoint Identity Security Cloud

What is Duo

Duo is a two-factor authentication solution that helps organizations boost security by verifying user identity, establishing device trust, and providing a secure connection to company networks and applications.

Why Duo

Duo is fast, easy and flexible. Passwords and even basic Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) aren’t enough to keep you safe from today’s attackers. Duo gives you the extra layers of protection you need for secure access management. With this setup, Duo two-factor authentication (2FA) is added as a verification option for account unlocking and password resets.

Prerequisites to integrate Duo

  1. Configure SailPoint Web application and copy ClientID, secret and hostname these details are required for SailPoint integration.
  2. Add users and enroll them in the application. User should have an account in SailPoint.

Technical Overview:

Here’s the technical demonstration on the integration of Duo

Use case Demonstration – Integration flow:

Please refer to the below video to have an understanding about Duo integration

SailPoint configuration

  1. The steps to be done in SailPoint tenant for duo integration
  2. First in SailPoint, integrate the Duo and then check the test connection after successful test connection
  3. Enable multifactor Authentication in Identity profile
  4. And select duo web in Password Reset and Unlock Settings
  5. Now you are all set to use duo authentication

Duo 2FA for Identity security cloud password reset

  1. With duo integration user can reset his password
  2. First user has to proceed to reset password
  3. Enter the username
  4. Then you should enter the passcode received from duo after successful duo authentication you can able to set new password

Duo 2FA for Identity security cloud Unlock account

  1. If the user account got locked, then he can unlock his account with duo integration
  2. First user has to proceed to unlock account
  3. Enter the username
  4. After successful duo authentication your account will be unlocked

 

SAP HR & ECC Source Integration

SAP is one of the world’s leading producers of software for the management of business processes, developing solutions that facilitate effective data processing and information flow across organizations.

SAP software provides multiple business functions with a single view to the entire data. This helps companies better manage complex business processes by giving employees of different departments easy access to real-time insights across the enterprise.

SAP solutions are classified into 6 core products as listed below.

In the below video, we are going to see the SAP HR/HCM source and SAP ERP Core Component (ECC) source integration in SailPoint IdentityNow.

SAP HR system integration.

SAP HCM solution is used to streamline the HR process and create a people centric organization.

SAP HR/HCM system that we are integrating in SailPoint IdentityNow will be the truth source from which identity governance is managed.

SAP ECC system integration

SAP ECC is the ERP system that integrates information from one SAP system to another system in real time, this helps companies better manage complex business processes by giving employees of different departments easy access to real-time insights across the enterprise.

As a result, businesses can accelerate workflows, improve operational efficiency and raise productivity.

By integrating SAP ECC to SailPoint IdentityNow, Identity access management and governance will be simplified.

Use cases.

On demand access request: User can request access based on requirement from request center.

Separation of Duties: Whenever user request for conflicting access SoD policy violation check will happen and warn the approver that approving access will violate SoD policy.

Leaver Scenario: When user lifecycle state is changed to terminated the end target applications access will be disabled.

Certification campaign: To certify user is having right access certification campaign can be configured and can be certified by user’s manager or source owner or a specific individual.

In the below video, we are going to look at a demo of above specified integrations and use cases.