Configure SAML 2.0 for Privileged Remote Access using Beyond Identity

Using Beyond Identity with SAML for Privileged Remote Access provides several benefits:

  • Provides strong, unphishable multi-factor access and policy-based access controls to ensure high-trust authentication for admin accounts.
  • Ensures only devices that meet the company’s security policy have access to admin accounts.
  • Establishes identity before privileged actions on an endpoint are allowed, using a frictionless step-up authentication.
  • Creates a zero-trust PAM architecture: the system doesn’t trust the user until they pass a high-assurance authentication and doesn’t trust their device unless it meets security policies.
  • Eliminates passwords and the corresponding vulnerabilities from privileged accounts.

Beyond Identity can validate a device’s security posture before allowing access to Privileged Remote Access.

Editing access rule conditions in Beyond Identity.

Beyond Identity can provide insights into access activity.

Beyond Indentity access map, showing counts of access by country.

To use the Beyond Identity app, you must download and install the application, and configure it and BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access to work together. The integration is configured using POST, not redirect.

Download the Beyond Identity App

Web page for downloading Beyond Identity

Go to the Beyond Identity Download site.

Download and install the Beyond Identity app, and then use the app to authenticate your instance of Beyond Identity.

Configure Beyond Identity

Follow the steps below to download and configure the Beyond Identity app:

BeyondTrust page for adding SAML.

  1. If Beyond Identity is already open in a browser tab, open a new browser tab for BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access.
  2. Go to the admin interface of the Privileged Remote Access instance.
  3. Click Users & Security on the left menu, and then click the Security Providers tab.
  4. Click Add and select SAML2.

 

BeyondTrust page for obtaining service provider metadata.

  1. Scroll down and expand the Service Provider Settings.
  2. Locate the Assertion Consumer Service URL and the Entity ID. These are required for Beyond Identity. Alternately, click Download Service Provider Metadata.

 

Integrations for SAML connections.

  1. If Beyond Identity is not already open, open it in a new browser tab.
  2. Click Integrations on the left menu.
  3. Click the SAML tab.
  4. Click Add SAML Connection.

 

Beyond Identity page for editing the SAML connection.

  1. If you have downloaded the service provider metadata, click Upload XML and locate the file on your device.
  2. If you have not downloaded the information, then:
    • Copy the Assertion Consumer Service URL in Privileged Remote Access to SP Single Sign On URL in Beyond Identity.
    • Copy the Entity ID in Privileged Remote Access to SP Audience URI in Beyond Identity.

 

Configuring attribute statements in Beyond Identity.

  1. In Beyond Identity, configure Attribute Statements. Groups includes a PRA group to be assigned via the SAML assertion.

 

SAML connection download screen in Beyond Identity.

  1. In Beyond Identity, click Save Changes.
  2. In the SAML Connections panel, locate the connection just added.
  3. For the new connection:
    • Click the Download Certificate icon.
    • Click the Download Metadata icon </>.

 

BeyondTrust page for uploading identity provider metadata and certificate.

  1. Return to the browser tab for the admin interface of the BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access instance.
  2. In the Privileged Remote Access admin interface:
    • Click Upload Identity Provider Metadata and locate the file on your device.
    • Click Upload Certificate (or Replace Certificate, if required), and locate the file on your device.

 

BeyondTrust page for setting user attributes.

  1. Scroll down and expand the User Attribute Settings.
  2. Configure based on the attribute names configured in Beyond Identity.

 

BeyondTrust page for configuring authorization.

  1. Scroll down and expand Authorization Settings.
  2. Configure as required. A Default Group Policy must be selected.
  3. Click Save.
  4. Log out of BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access.

Test Beyond Identity on your Device

To test Single Sign-On using SAML with the Beyond Identity app, ensure you are logged out of all instances of BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access.

BeyondTrust Remote Support login page, with option to use SAML authentication.

On the login page for Privileged Remote Access, click Use SAML Authentication.

 

"Verifying your identity" message displays from the Beyond Identity app during login.

A screen shows the Beyond Identity app verifying identity.

 

BeyondTrust Remote Support My Account screen, after login using SAML and Beyond Identity.

After successful verification, you are authenticated in Privileged Remote Access.

 

For more information, please see SAML for Single Sign-On Authentication.

Should you need any assistance, please log into the Customer Portal to chat with Support.