What is Azure Active Directory?
Microsoft Entra ID - Azure Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management platform designed to provide single sign-on and multi-factor authentication to help protect organizations from cybersecurity attacks.
Why Azure Active Directory + Cognise?
The Azure AD + Cognise add-on enables IT to leverage:
Enterprise single sign-on: Azure AD supports rich, out of the box enterprise-grade single sign-on with Cognise. Users sign in using their organizational accounts hosted in Azure AD.
Automatic account provisioning: Azure AD enables administrators to automatically create and manage user accounts in Cognise, greatly simplifying the user onboarding and account maintenance experience.
Easy configuration: Simple, step-by-step user interface for connecting Cognise to Azure AD.
Connecting Microsoft Azure AD to Cognise
This article describes how to setup and configure a secured connection between Azure AD and Cognise. Once configured this allows organisations to automatically sync profile data and keep Cognise people data up to date.
To do this:
Click Config to navigate to your company settings in Cognise
Click Microsoft Azure AD.
You should see a screen as displayed below.
App Registration in Azure Active Directory
In a new tab open up your Azure Portal. Select All services from the far-left hand menu and click App Registrations.
Click "New Registration" from the actions at the top of the page.
Note: if you have an existing application for SSO you can reuse the same application. However we recommend creating a new application for each add-on in Cognise.Enter a name for the new application. Click "Register" button. You will be taken to the overview page for your new app.
Click the Single sign-on option from the left menu and then Go to application in step 1.
Copy the Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID values in a notepad.
Click Certificates & secrets option from the left menu.
Click New client secret, enter a description, select the expiration and click Add
Copy new client secret value in the notepad.
At this point you should have the Application (client) ID, Directory (tenant) ID and the Client Secret value.
Navigate back to Cognise and click Config > Microsoft Azure AD.
Enter the three values you have copied into their corresponding fields and click Save.