Authenticate Users with SAML 2.0 - Administrator Guide - EoL - 6.5 - Cortex XSOAR - Cortex - Security Operations

SAML exchanges authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML 2.0 is an XML-based protocol that uses security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a principal (usually an end user) between a SAML authority (Identity Provider) and a SAML consumer (Service Provider).

SAML 2.0 enables web-based authentication and authorization scenarios including cross-domain single sign-on (SSO), which helps reduce the administrative overhead of distributing multiple authentication tokens to the user. For more information about SAML 2.0, see SAML 2.0 Wikipedia.

You can authenticate your Cortex XSOAR users using SAML 2.0 authentication with your identity provider, such as Okta. You need to define Cortex XSOAR authentication in your Identity Provider’s account, then create a SAML 2.0 instance in Cortex XSOAR: