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Set up SSO (Pro)

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SSO access is an enterprise feature only available in the professional or custom package.

This article explains how to set up single-sign-on with AWS SSO and CodeShield. The process is straight forward and does not take more than 10-15 minutes.

Having an external identity provider for single-sing-on to CodeShield, employees can be assigned to the CodeShield app, and login with their usual company credentials. Having set up SSO also allows all users from the same identity provider to work together with CodeShield, by optionally sharing projects and scans with each other.

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As we employ the SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0) standard, its possible to use any SAML-based identity provider (like Azure AD or Salesforce) to set up single-sign-on with CodeShield. If you want to connect a different identity provider than AWS SSO, just let us know and we are happy to assist you!

AWS SSO

  1. Go to AWS SSO.
  2. Click on Applications in the left pane and then select Add application in the Applications configuration.
  3. Choose Add custom SAML 2.0 application.
  4. Give the application a name (like CodeShield). Leave the page open as you will need the URL to the IAM Identity Center SAML metadata file soon.
  5. Log into your CodeShield account (If you do not have a CodeShield account yet, create one first). This will be your management account. You will be able to disconnect the SAML identity provider and manage user access to all connected accounts from here later.
  6. Click on your user icon in the bottom-left corner and select SSO settings.
  7. Paste the IAM Identity Center SAML metadata file URL from 4. into the corresponding field. Click Connect IDP to connect your identity provider.
  8. After a few seconds, you will be proposed with the data to fill back into the AWS SSO application setup page from 4. Make sure to leave the current page open.
  9. Go back to the AWS SSO application set up page and fill in the Application start URL, Application ACS URL, and Application SAML audience with the values proposed by CodeShield in step 8. Submit the form.
  10. Now that AWS SSO is connected with CodeShield, you can assign the users that should be able to access CodeShield with AWS SSO. In the Application settings, click on Assign Users.
  11. Select the Users or Groups that should be able to access CodeShield and click Assign Users.
  12. Lastly, you have to add Attribute mappings to the application. Click on Actions in the application settings, and then on Edit attribute mappings.
  13. Configure the mappings as shown in the image below. Use ${user:subject} as value for the Subject and add another mapping for email with the value `${user:email}. (This will communicate a subject ID and the users email to CodeShield once the user signs in).
  14. The setup is complete. Every user assigned to the CodeShield application in AWS SSO will now be able to sign in to CodeShield over the usual AWS SSO access portal.
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Note that users have to login once before they are registered at CodeShield. This is a restriction of AWS SSO, CodeShield has no way to see which users are assigned to it before AWS SSO communicates their user data at their first login.

Access management

Every user of the same identity provider can edit which other users should be able to access the user's owned account connections (and belonging scans) in the SSO settings page. The page can be reached as described in steps 5-6 of the previous section. The admin user, who owns the management account, has full control over all users and their connected accounts, and can thus even edit access rights for account connections he did not set up himself.