PingOne

PingOne for Enterprise is an identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) and single sign-on (SSO) platform. It allows enterprises to give their users federated access to applications. In this guide, we integrate the PingOne IdP to authenticate users into the ThreatLockDown platform.

There are three stages in the single sign-on integration.

  1. PingOne Configuration

  2. ThreatLockDown indexer configuration

  3. ThreatLockDown dashboard configuration

PingOne Configuration

  1. Create an account in Ping Identity. Request a free trial if you don't have a paid license.

  2. Go to PingOne and sign in with your Ping Identity account.

  3. Create an application in Connections.

    1. Navigate to Connections > Applications > Add Application and give it a name. In our case, the name is wazuh-sso.

    2. Proceed to the Choose Application Type section, and select SAML Application > Configure.

    3. Select Manually Enter on the Provide App Metadata section and add the following configuration, replacing <WAZUH_DASHBOARD_URL> with the corresponding value:

      • ACS URLs: https://<WAZUH_DASHBOARD_URL>/_opendistro/_security/saml/acs

      • Entity ID: wazuh-saml

    4. On the Configuration tab, click on the edit icon and add the following information:

      • SLO ENDPOINT: https://<WAZUH_DASHBOARD_URL>/

      • SLO BINDING: HTTP Redirect

      • ASSERTION VALIDITY DURATION: 3600 (for one hour token validity)

      • VERIFICATION CERTIFICATE (OPTIONAL): Load a PUBLIC CERTIFICATE that corresponds to the PRIVATE KEY that is going to be used on the sp.signature_private_key_filepath of the config.yml configuration file on the ThreatLockDown indexer instance. This is necessary as all the logout requests must be signed.

    5. Click on the Attribute Mappings tab, select the edit icon, click on Add and insert the following configuration:

      Roles = Group Names

      The Roles attribute will be used later as the sp.entity_id in the ThreatLockDown indexer configuration file.

    6. Click on the Required checkbox, and click on Save.

  4. Create a group and assign users.

    1. Navigate to Identities > Groups, and click on the + sign. Select the name of the Group, in this case, wazuh-readonly.

    2. To assign users, open the created Group, go to the Users tab and select Add Individually. Add all the members that must log in to the ThreatLockDown dashboard, and click on Save when done.

  5. Activate the application and note the necessary parameters.

    1. Navigate to Connections, select Applications, and enable the application.

    2. Take note of the following parameters from the configuration page of the application. This information will be used in the next step.

      • ISSUER ID: It'll be in the form https://auth.pingone.com/...

      • IDP METADATA URL: It’ll be in the form https://auth.pingone.com/...

      • exchange_key: If you open the IDP METADATA URL you'll find the X509 Certificate section, this will be used as the exchange_key.

ThreatLockDown indexer configuration

Edit the ThreatLockDown indexer security configuration files. We recommend that you back up these files before you carry out the configuration.

  1. Place the private key file within the /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security/ directory. Set the file ownership to wazuh-indexer using the following command:

    # chown wazuh-indexer:wazuh-indexer /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security/securityconfig/PRIVATE_KEY

  2. Edit the /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security/config.yml file and change the following values:

    • Set the order in basic_internal_auth_domain to 0 and the challenge flag to false.

    • Include a saml_auth_domain configuration under the authc section similar to the following:

        authc:
...
      basic_internal_auth_domain:
        description: "Authenticate via HTTP Basic against internal users database"
        http_enabled: true
        transport_enabled: true
        order: 0
        http_authenticator:
          type: "basic"
          challenge: false
        authentication_backend:
          type: "intern"
      saml_auth_domain:
        http_enabled: true
        transport_enabled: false
        order: 1
        http_authenticator:
          type: saml
          challenge: true
          config:
            idp:
              metadata_url: IDP METADATA URL
              entity_id: ISSUER ID
            sp:
              entity_id: wazuh-saml
              signature_private_key_filepath: /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security/PRIVATE_KEY
              forceAuthn: true
            kibana_url: https://<WAZUH_DASHBOARD_URL>
            roles_key: Roles
            exchange_key: 'MIIJ6DLSAAbAmAJHSgIWYia.........'
        authentication_backend:
          type: noop

    Ensure to change the following parameters to their corresponding value:

    • idp.metadata_file

    • idp.entity_id

    • sp.entity_id

    • sp.signature_private_key_filepath

    • kibana_url

    • roles_key

    • exchange_key

  3. Run the securityadmin script to load the configuration changes made in the config.yml file.

    # export JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/wazuh-indexer/jdk/ && bash /usr/share/wazuh-indexer/plugins/opensearch-security/tools/securityadmin.sh -f /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security/config.yml -icl -key /etc/wazuh-indexer/certs/admin-key.pem -cert /etc/wazuh-indexer/certs/admin.pem -cacert /etc/wazuh-indexer/certs/root-ca.pem -h localhost -nhnv

    The -h flag specifies the hostname or the IP address of the ThreatLockDown indexer node. Note that this command uses localhost, set your ThreatLockDown indexer address if necessary.

    The command output must be similar to the following:

    Security Admin v7
Will connect to localhost:9200 ... done
Connected as "CN=admin,OU=Wazuh,O=Wazuh,L=California,C=US"
OpenSearch Version: 2.10.0
Contacting opensearch cluster 'opensearch' and wait for YELLOW clusterstate ...
Clustername: wazuh-cluster
Clusterstate: GREEN
Number of nodes: 1
Number of data nodes: 1
.opendistro_security index already exists, so we do not need to create one.
Populate config from /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security
Will update '/config' with /etc/wazuh-indexer/opensearch-security/config.yml
   SUCC: Configuration for 'config' created or updated
SUCC: Expected 1 config types for node {"updated_config_types":["config"],"updated_config_size":1,"message":null} is 1 (["config"]) due to: null
Done with success

ThreatLockDown dashboard configuration

  1. Create a new role mapping for the backend role. Follow these steps to create a new role mapping, and grant read-only permissions to the backend role.

    1. Log into the ThreatLockDown dashboard as administrator.

    2. Click the upper-left menu icon ☰ to open the options, go to Indexer/dashboard management > Security, and then Roles to open the roles page.

    3. Click Create role, complete the empty fields with the following parameters, and then click Create to complete the task.

      • Name: Assign a name to the role.

      • Cluster permissions: cluster_composite_ops_ro

      • Index: *

      • Index permissions: read

      • Tenant permissions: Select global_tenant and the Read only option.

    4. Select the newly created role.

    5. Select the Mapped users tab and click Manage mapping.

    6. Under Backend roles, add the name of the group you created in PingOne and click Map to confirm the action. In our case, the backend role is wazuh-readonly.

  2. Check the value of run_as in the /usr/share/wazuh-dashboard/data/wazuh/config/wazuh.yml configuration file. If run_as is set to false, proceed to the next step.

    hosts:
  - default:
      url: https://localhost
      port: 55000
      username: wazuh-wui
      password: "<wazuh-wui-password>"
      run_as: false

    If run_as is set to true, you need to add a role mapping on the ThreatLockDown dashboard. To map the backend role to Wazuh, follow these steps:

    1. Click ☰ to open the menu on the ThreatLockDown dashboard, go to Server management > Security, and then Roles mapping to open the page.

      ThreatLockDown role mapping

    2. Click Create Role mapping and complete the empty fields with the following parameters:

      • Role mapping name: Assign a name to the role mapping.

      • Roles: Select readonly.

      • Custom rules: Click Add new rule to expand this field.

      • User field: backend_roles

      • Search operation: FIND

      • Value: Assign the name you gave to your group in PingOne configuration, in our case, this is wazuh-readonly.

      Create ThreatLockDown role mapping

    3. Click Save role mapping to save and map the backend role with ThreatLockDown as read-only.

  3. Edit the ThreatLockDown dashboard configuration file. Add these configurations to /etc/wazuh-dashboard/opensearch_dashboards.yml. We recommend that you back up these files before you carry out the configuration.

    opensearch_security.auth.type: "saml"
server.xsrf.allowlist: ["/_opendistro/_security/saml/acs", "/_opendistro/_security/saml/logout", "/_opendistro/_security/saml/acs/idpinitiated"]
opensearch_security.session.keepalive: false

  4. Restart the ThreatLockDown dashboard service.

    # systemctl restart wazuh-dashboard

  5. Test the configuration. Go to your ThreatLockDown dashboard URL and log in with your Ping One account.