Google Workspace - SAML Relying Party Configuration - RSA Ready Implementation Guide
Originally Published: 2021-10-30
This article describes how to integrate RSA with Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) using SAML Relying Party.
Configure RSA Cloud Authentication Service
Perform these steps to configure RSA Cloud Authentication Service as Relying Party to Google Workspace.
Procedure
- Sign in to RSA Cloud Administration Console.
- Click Authentication Clients > Relying Parties.
- On the My Relying Parties page, click Add a Relying Party.
- On the Relying Party Catalog page, click Add for Service Provider SAML.
- On the Basic Information page, enter a name for the Service Provider in the Name field.
- Click Next Step.
- On the Authentication page, choose SecurID Access manages all authentication.
- In the Primary Authentication Method list, select your desired login method as either Password or SecurID.
- In the Access Policy for Additional Authentication list, select a policy that was previously configured.
- Select Next Step.
- On the Connection Profile page, click Enter Manually.
- In the Service Provider section, provide the following details:
- In the Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL field, enter https://www.google.com/a/%DOMAIN%/acs where %DOMAIN% is the domain name of your Google Workspace connected domain.
- In the Service Provider Entity ID field, enter google.com.
- In the Message Protection section, click Download Certificate to download the IDP signing certificate used by Cloud Authentication Service to sign the assertion. This is required during the Workspace configuration.
- In the Identity Provider section, make a note of the Entity ID text field value. This is required during the Workspace configuration.
- Click Save and Finish.
- Click Publish Changes and wait for the operation to complete.
Configure Google Workspace
Perform these steps to configure Google Workspace.Procedure
- Sign in to the Workspace administrator console at https://admin.google.com.
- Go to Security > Authentication > SSO with third-party IdP.
- On the SSO with third-party IdP page, do the following:
- Select the Set up SSO with third-party identity provider check box.
- In the Sign-in page URL field, enter the Identity Provider URL obtained from of RSA Cloud Authentication Service configuration.
- In the Sign-out page URL field, enter https://google.com.
- Verification certificate: Upload the public certificate extracted from RSA Cloud Authentication Service configuration.
- Select the Set up SSO with third-party identity provider check box.
- Click Save.
The configuration is complete.
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