Requirement

Administrator account in Okta.

Supported Features

Immuta's OpenID Connect integration supports the following features

• Service Provider (SP)-Initiated Authentication (SSO) Flow

• Identity Provider (IDP)-Initiated Authentication (SSO) Flow

Configuration Steps

1 - Add the Immuta Application in Okta

1. Log in to Okta as an Admin, navigate to the Applications tab, and click Add Application.

2. Search for Immuta in the search bar and click Add.

3. Choose a name for your integration and click Next. Then select the OpenID Connect button.

4. Scroll down and enter the Base URL for your Immuta tenant.

5. Enter the IAM ID for your Immuta OIDC integration (if you have not created an IAM ID, you will complete that step in the next section).

6. Click Done and once the page reloads, navigate back to the Sign On tab and copy down the Client ID and Client secret.

2 - Add OpenID Connect in Immuta

1. Log in to Immuta and click the App Settings icon in the left sidebar.

2. Click the Add IAM button and enter a Display Name.

3. Select OpenID from the Identity Provider Type dropdown menu.

4. If required, navigate back to Okta and enter the IAM ID below the Base URL then complete the steps from the Okta section.

3 - Configure OpenID Connect

1. In the Identity Management section of the Immuta console, enter the Client ID and Client Secret you copied from Okta in the previous section.

2. Enter the following URL in the Discover URL field: https://<your_okta_workspace.com>/.well-known/openid-configuration.

3. Opt to add additional Scopes.

4. Opt to Enable SCIM support for OpenID by clicking the checkbox, which will generate a SCIM API Key.

5. In the Profile Schema section, map attributes in OpenID to automatically fill in a user's Immuta profile. Note: Fields that you specify in this schema will not be editable by users within Immuta.

6. Opt to Allow Identity Provider Initiated Single Sign On to use the IDP-Initiated SSO feature by selecting the checkbox.

7. Opt to Migrate Users from another IAM by selecting the checkbox.

4 - Test Connection and Save Configuration

1. Click the Test Connection button.

2. Once the connection is successful, click the Test User Login button.

3. Click Save.

Add IAM on the App Settings Page

1. Navigate to the App Settings page in the Immuta console and click the Add IAM button.

2. Complete the Display Name field and select OpenID from the Identity Provider Type dropdown.

3. Adjust Default Permissions granted to users by selecting from the list in this dropdown menu.

Add OpenID Connect in OneLogin

1. Navigate to OneLogin, click Administration, and then select Applications from the Applications menu.

2. Click Add App in the top right corner of the screen. Search for and select OpenID Connect (OIDC).

3. Complete the Display Name field and click Save.

Complete the Configuration

1. From the Identity and Access Management window in your Immuta tenant, copy the SSO Callback URL to your clipboard.

2. Return to OneLogin, click the Configuration tab in the left panel, and paste the URL in the Login Url and Redirect URI's fields.

3. Click Save in the top right corner of this screen.

4. Click the SSO tab in the left panel of your OneLogin account. Copy the Client ID and the Client Secret and paste these values in the corresponding fields in your Immuta tenant.

5. Then, right click the Well-known Configuration text from the SSO tab of OneLogin, and copy the link to your clipboard.

6. Return to your Immuta tenant, and paste this link in the Discover URL field; pasting this link here prevents you from having to manually fill out the rest of the form.

7. Confirm email as the User ID claim, and fill out the Scopes section.

8. Return to OneLogin and scroll to the Token Endpoint section. Select POST from the Authentication Method dropdown.

9. Click Save.

10. Return to your Immuta console, opt to Enable SSL and Enable SCIM support for OpenID.

11. Opt to complete the Profile Schema section.

12. Opt to Allow Identity Provider Initiated Single Sign On, External Groups and Attributes Endpoint, and Migrate Users.

13. Click Test Connection. Once the connection is successful, click Test User Login.

14. Click Save.

Identity managers are used with Immuta to provide authentication and fine-grained user entitlement.

How-to guides

• Configure Microsoft Entra ID: Configure Microsoft Entra ID to sync users to Immuta.

• Configure Okta and LDAP: Configure Okta with Immuta using LDAP to sync users to Immuta.

• Configure Okta and OpenID Connect: Configure Okta with Immuta using OpenID to sync users to Immuta.

• Integrate Okta SAML SCIM with Immuta: Configure Okta with Immuta using SAML to sync users to Immuta.

• Configure OneLogin: Configure OneLogin to sync users to Immuta.

• Configure SAML: Configure SAML IAM protocol to sync users to Immuta.

Reference guides

• Identity managers overview: This reference guide describes the options, support, and limitations when using IAMs to sync users into Immuta.

• SAML SLO reference guide: This reference guide describes the logout processes using SAML 2.0 single logout protocol which allows identity providers to terminate sessions across a user's applications nearly simultaneously with a single logout request.

• SAML IAM protocol configuration options: This reference guide lists the configuration options for SAML SLO protocol.

Requirements

• An Immuta tenant with version 2020.4 or higher is required to use Immuta's SCIM 2.0 feature.

• Users have to be an administrator in Okta to edit or add applications.

Supported Features

The following Okta provisioning features are supported by Immuta:

• Import Users from Okta: Okta users who had previously been assigned to an Okta application can be imported to your Immuta tenant.

• Push Users to Immuta: Okta users who are assigned to the Immuta application in Okta are automatically added as members to your Immuta tenant.

• Deactivate Users in Immuta: Okta users who are unassigned from the Immuta application in Okta or are deleted or deactivated from Okta are automatically deactivated in your Immuta tenant.

• Push Groups to Immuta: Groups and their members in Okta can be pushed to your Immuta tenant.

• Remove Groups from Immuta: Groups in Okta are removed from your Immuta tenant when they are no longer mapped to your Immuta application in Okta.

• Map User Attributes from Okta to Immuta: You can map user attributes between Okta and your Immuta tenant. The mapping will remain synced by detecting profile changes in Okta.

Configuration Instructions

1 - Add SAML Application in Okta

1. Log in to your Okta instance and click Applications in the menu in the left pane.

2. Click Browse App Catalog, and then search for and select Immuta.

3. Click Add.

4. In General Settings, opt to change the Application label. Then, click Next.

5. Click View Setup Instructions and complete the tutorial to configure the IAM in Immuta. Note: You will complete all steps outlined for the Immuta App Settings page except Test User Login. You cannot test the login or save the IAM configuration in Immuta until you have added yourself as a user to the application in Okta. These steps are outlined in the next section.

6. In the Okta console under Advanced Sign-on Settings, fill in the following fields.

   • Base URL (typically your Immuta tenant URL)

   • IAM ID (found on the Immuta App Settings page)

7. Click Done.

2 - Add a User to the Application

1. Click the Assignments tab.

2. Click Assign and then Assign to People.

3. Enter your name in the search field to filter results, and then click Assign.

4. Click Save and Go Back, and then click Done.

5. Return to the Immuta console and click Test User Login. Once this test passes, click Save.

3 - Configure Immuta to Use SCIM External IAM

1. Navigate to the App Settings page in Immuta, and click the Add IAM button.

2. Complete the Display Name field and select SAML as your IAM type from the Identity Provider Type dropdown.

3. Adjust Default Permissions granted to users by selecting from the list in this dropdown menu, and then complete the required fields in the Client Options section.

4. Enable SCIM support for SAML by clicking the checkbox, which will generate a SCIM API Key.

5. In the Profile Schema section, map attributes in SAML to automatically fill in a user's Immuta profile. Note: Fields that you specify in this schema will not be editable by users within Immuta.

6. Enable Sync groups from SAML to Immuta and Sync attributes from SAML to Immuta by selecting the checkboxes, and then click the Test Connection button.

7. Once the connection is successful, click the Test User Login button.

8. Before you save the configuration, store the SCIM information that displays on the Immuta App Settings page, as it will be used in subsequent steps.

4 - Update Existing Okta Application to Enable SCIM

1. In Okta, navigate to your application and click the Provisioning tab.

2. Click Configure API Integration and then select the Enable API integration checkbox.

3. Fill in the following fields:

   • Base URL (found on the Immuta App Settings page as SCIM URL)

   • API Token (found on the Immuta App Settings page as SCIM Api Key)

4. Click Test API Credentials.

5. Once that test passes, click Save.

6. You will automatically navigate to the Provisioning tab. To make sure everything syncs as expected, select To App in the Settings pane, click Edit, and enable the following fields:

   • Create Users

   • Update User Attributes

   • Deactivate Users

7. Click Save.

Known Issues and Limitations

• The Okta directory cannot be synced with Immuta's internal IAM (BIM). You must configure an external IAM in Immuta to push users and groups from Okta to Immuta.

• You should create a new Immuta IAM and a new Okta application for Immuta to set up the provisioning. An existing setup can cause discrepancies between the Okta directory and the app, leading to syncing failures.

• When making a GET request for a user, there are extra attributes in the response.

Additional Tutorials

Manage Users in Okta SCIM

Add Users in Okta SCIM

1. Navigate to your application in Okta and click the Assignments tab.

2. Click Assign and then Assign to People.

3. Enter the name of the user you would like to add in the search field and click Assign.

4. Click Save and Go Back, and then click Done.

The user has been added to your application in Okta and displays as a user in Immuta under this external IAM.

Remove Users from Okta SCIM

1. Click the delete icon next to the user you want to remove.

2. When prompted to make sure you want to delete this user, click OK.

This user is removed from your application in Okta and displays as disabled in Immuta under this external IAM.

Manage Groups

Add Users to Groups

1. In Okta, navigate to your application and click on the Assignments tab.

2. Click on the name of the user whose groups you want to update.

3. Click on the Groups tab.

4. To add a new group, start to type the name of an existing group in the search field, and when it displays, click Add.

This group has been added to the user in Okta. It will also automatically appear in Immuta for the same user.

Remove Users from Groups

1. In Okta, navigate to your application and click the Assignments tab.

2. Click the name of the user whose groups you want to update, and then navigate to the Groups tab.

3. Click the delete icon next to the group you want to remove for this user.

This group has been removed from the user in Okta, and it will automatically be removed from this user in Immuta.

Manage Attributes with Okta SCIM

Add Attributes to Users

1. In Okta, navigate to your application and click To App on the Provisioning tab.

2. Click the Go to Profile Editor button.

3. Click Add Attribute and fill in the following fields:

   • Data type (defaults to string).

   • Display name.

   • Variable name.

   • External namespace. This field has to be formatted using a special schema format (e.g., urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:DEMOEXT). Copy this information; you will need it for Immuta configuration.

4. Click Save.

Update the SCIM Attribute Schema in Immuta

1. In Immuta, navigate to the App Settings page and edit your SCIM configuration.

2. Scroll to the Attribute Schema section under Sync Attributes.

3. Click Add Attribute and complete the following fields:

   • SCIM Schema: <found on the Okta SCIM attribute page (in the previous section)>

   • IAM Immuta Attribute Prefix: this can be anything you want

4. Click Test Connection and then Test User.

5. Save your changes.

Add Attribute Values

After adding attributes to users and updating the SCIM Attribute Schema in Immuta,

1. In Okta, navigate to the Assignments tab for your application and click the edit icon next to the user you want to update attributes for.

2. Scroll to the attribute you created and add a value in the textbox.

3. Save your changes.

Now that this attribute has been added to the user in Okta, it will automatically appear in Immuta for the same user.

Sync External Usernames with Okta SCIM in Immuta

1. In Immuta, navigate to your Okta SCIM configuration on the App Settings page.

2. Under Sync attributes from SAML to Immuta, add an attribute for the field you would like to map to an external username.

3. Copy and paste the resulting attribute for the desired external username.

4. Click Test Connection and then Test User.

5. Save your changes.

Immuta policies are dynamic and change for the user accessing data. Every user accessing policy-protected data must exist in Immuta, regardless of if they will interact with the Immuta UI.

How-to guides

• : Add, edit, and delete the permissions on your Immuta users.

• : Enable, grant, and use user impersonation for Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, or Starburst (Trino).

• : Add, edit, and delete user's attributes and groups.

• : Ensure policies and audit work correctly by mapping the user's ID from the integration to Immuta.

• : Configure your IAM in Immuta to retrieve users' groups and attributes from an external HTTP endpoint.

Reference guides

• : This reference guide describes Immuta's permissions and the user personas that they apply to.

• : This reference guide describes attributes and groups in Immuta.

This section illustrates how to manage people and their permissions, groups, and attributes in Immuta.

Getting started

The how-to guides linked on this page illustrate how to register your users with Immuta to ensure proper function in the Immuta Detect and Secure modules.

Identity managers

Identity managers are used with Immuta to provide authentication and fine-grained user entitlement. This section provides reference and how-to guides for the identity managers that integrate with Immuta.

Immuta users

Immuta policies are dynamic and change for the user accessing data. Every user accessing policy-protected data must exist in Immuta, regardless of if they will interact with the Immuta UI. The guides in this section discuss managing users and their permissions, groups, and attributes.

Create users

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Click the New User button.

3. Fill out the Full Name and Email fields in the dialog. Note: The user's email address will be used as the username and must be unique.

4. Click the Create button.

Add permission to user

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Select the user you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. Click Add Permissions.

4. Click the Select Permission dropdown, and select the permission you want to give the user.

Disable users

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Select the user you want to disable, and click the more actions icon.

3. Select Disable User.

4. Click Disable in the confirmation dialog.

Permanently delete users

Requirement: USER_ADMIN permission

Note: This action permanently deletes all data associated with this user from Immuta, including data source subscriptions, and a timestamp of this event will be captured in the audit logs. The ability to create governance reports against this user will no longer be possible. This action cannot be undone.

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Select the user you want to disable, and click the more actions icon.

3. Select Permanently Delete.

4. Click Permanently Delete User in the confirmation dialog.

5. Type Delete to confirm deleting the user permanently.

6. Click the Confirm Permanent Delete button.

Migrate users

Prerequisite: An IAM configured in Immuta

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Click the more actions icon and select Migrate User.

3. Enter their username in the modal that appears and click Migrate User.

Remove a permission from a user

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Select the user you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. Click Remove on the permission you want to remove.

Download metrics

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Click the Metrics button.

3. Complete the Number of Days field in the dialog that appears, and then click Download to download the JSON file.

Show disabled accounts

Once an account has been disabled, it will not appear in the list of current Immuta users. To show the disabled accounts,

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Use Filters to filter the table to Include Accounts and check the Disabled box.

Immuta can integrate with Microsoft Entra ID as an IAM over SAML 2.0. This page outlines how to register Immuta as an Azure Enterprise Application with Single Sign-On over SAML 2.0.

Create an Enterprise Application

1. In the Microsoft Azure portal, browse to Enterprise Applications.

2. Click the New Application button and then select Create your own application.

3. Name the application with the name of your choice, select Integrate any other application you don't find in the gallery (Non-gallery), and click Create.

4. On the left menu, choose the Single sign-on menu item and then pick the SAML tile.

5. In the first section (Basic SAML Configuration), click the Edit icon and fill in Identifier (Entity ID) field with the full URI of your Immuta app (e.g., https://immuta.my-comany.com).

6. In the second section (User Attributes & Claims), specify the unique user identifier you want to use in Immuta. Common choices are the mail claim or the userprincipalname claim. You can also specify the user claims you want Azure to expose to Immuta. You will use the names of those claims to map them to Immuta user attributes when you create an IAM.

7. In the third section (SAML Signing Certificate), click the Download link next to Certificate (Base64) and save the file on your hard drive:

8. In the fourth section, copy the Login URL and save it for when you will create the IAM through the Immuta UI.

Now that you have an enterprise application in place, continue to create and configure an IAM in Immuta. You will need a few details from the Immuta UI to complete the configuration of the enterprise application.

Create an IAM

1. In Immuta, browse to App Settings, go to the Identity Managers section, and click Add IAM

2. Assign a name to the new IAM. Immuta will automatically derive the ID of the IAM from the name you pick.

3. Select SAML in the Identity Provider Type drop-down.

4. Start configuring the new IAM:

   • Default Permissions: The default permission that should be assigned to a Microsoft Entra ID user in Immuta.

   • Issuer: This field needs to have the same value as the Identifier (Entity ID) of the enterprise application (e.g., https://immuta.my-comany.com).

   • Entry Point: Paste the Login URL that you obtained in the previous section.

   • User ID Attribute: This field is the attribute that will contain the username of the user logging in.

   • Signing Certificate: Upload the certificate file you have previously downloaded and converted into a PEM encoded certificate.

   • Decryption Private Key: This field is the optional key for decrypting attribute assertions.

   • Enable SCIM support for SAML: Opt to enable SCIM support.

   • Profile Schema: Map user claims you have previously exposed in the application to Immuta user attributes.

   • Enable any optional settings:

     • Link SQL

     • Allow Identity Provider Initiated Single Sign On: After checking this option, set disableRequestedAuthnContext to true under Additional Config Parameters.

     • Sync groups from SAML to Immuta

     • Sync attributes from SAML to Immuta: After selecting this checkbox, map your Entra ID attributes to Immuta in the Attribute Schema section.

     • External Groups and Attributes Endpoint

   Before you can test the integration and save the new IAM, you will need to go back to the Microsoft Azure Portal and fill in the Reply URL.

5. In the Single sign-on page of your enterprise application, edit the first section with the title Basic SAML Configuration.

6. Fill in the Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL) field with a value that adheres to the following format: ${IMMUTA_URL}/bim/iam/${IAM_ID}/user/authenticate/callback. For example, if the URL to your Immuta tenant is https://immuta.my-comany.com and the assigned IAM ID is MicrosoftEntraID, the value of the Reply URL field should be https://immuta.my-comany.com/bim/iam/MicrosoftEntraID/user/authenticate/callback. To save the changes, click Save. You can find the IAM ID that Immuta has assigned to the IAM in the form.

7. You should now be able to test the IAM and save it. After clicking Test Connection and letting Immuta hit the enterprise application URL, you will need to verify that the authentication flow works before you can save and create the IAM. To do so, click Test User Login and follow the instructions.

8. Save the changes in Immuta.

Microsoft Entra ID SCIM limitation

SCIM will skip updates and will not inform Immuta that an attribute should be removed from a user in the following scenarios, even if the attribute mapping has been deleted from the IAM configuration on the Immuta app settings page:

• Attribute is set to empty (removed) in Microsoft Entra ID

• Attribute is deleted in Microsoft Entra ID

In both of these scenarios, Azure doesn’t send Immuta a payload to remove the attribute, as it considers the action a redundant export. As a result, the attribute values that previously existed in Microsoft Entra ID will not get removed from the user in Immuta.

To remediate this limitation, take one of the following actions:

• Change the attribute to a non-impacting value other than empty in Microsoft Entra ID.

• Alternatively, remove the attribute mapping from the attribute schema section of the IAM configuration on the Immuta app settings page. Then, trigger an update for that user in Microsoft Entra ID by making a change to any value for that user. Microsoft Entra ID will send an update for that user to Immuta, and Immuta will remove the attribute from the user. Note that if that attribute mapping is ever re-added in Immuta on the app settings page, that attribute will be added to the user again.

See Known issues for provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID for more details about this limitation.

There are additional configuration options available for the SAML 2.0 protocol than are referenced in this guide, which only outlines the required settings. For details about the additional options, see the SAML protocol configuration options reference guide.

1. Navigate to the Immuta App Settings page.

2. Scroll to the Identity Management section and click Add IAM.

3. Complete the Display Name field and select SAML from the Identity Provider Type dropdown.

4. Take note of the ID and copy the SSO Callback URL to use as the ACS URL in your identity provider.

5. Adjust Default Permissions granted to users by selecting from the list in this dropdown menu.

6. Complete the Entry Point field. This is the location of your single sign on application that will be redirected to from the Immuta login page.

7. Upload your Signing Certificate. This is your identity provider's public signing certificate.

8. In the Profile Schema section, map attributes in SAML to automatically fill in a user's Immuta profile. Note: Fields that you specify in this schema will not be editable by users within Immuta.

9. Click Test Connection and Test User Login.

10. Save your configuration.

The following options are available when setting up an identity provider that uses the SAML 2.0 protocol.

• Allow identity provider initiated single sign on: When enabled, users authenticate once in their identity provider and can log in to Immuta.

• Allow identity provider initiated single logout: When enabled, users can log out of Immuta or their identity provider and simultaneously log out of other applications. Additional configuration settings will appear when this checkbox is selected:

  • Logout URL: The URL of your single sign on application that will be redirected to after you log out of Immuta, as some identity providers differentiate between the logout and authorization URLs.

  • SLO binding URL: The URL Immuta displays that you can add to your identity provider to specify where to send requests or responses to Immuta's SLO requests.

  • Encryption private key: An optional private key to encrypt requests.

• Decryption private key: The private key for decrypting attribute assertions from the identity provider.

• Display name: The internal ID of the identity manager in Immuta. This setting cannot be changed once the configuration is saved.

• Entry point: The URL of your single sign on application that the Immuta login page will redirect to.

• External groups and attributes endpoint: A REST endpoint that Immuta will use to retrieve a user's groups and attributes.

• Issuer: The URL of the identity provider that issues assertions for authentication.

• Migrate users: Migrate users from a previously configured identity provider to the current identity provider.

• SCIM support: When enabled, your identity provider automatically creates new users in Immuta and updates existing user accounts, whether or not users log in to Immuta. When you click this checkbox, Immuta generates a SCIM API key.

• Signing certificate: Your identity provider's public signing certificate.

• Sync attributes from SAML to Immuta: Allows attributes added in your identity provider to be synced with Immuta.

  • Attribute delimiter: The character used to split values in a string of attributes. After enabling sync attributes, providing delimiters for attributes is required.

  • Attribute prefix: The prefix used for attribute keys.

• Sync groups from SAML to Immuta: Allows groups added in your identity provider to be synced with Immuta.

• Group attribute: The attribute that contains the user's group. Enable sync groups from SAML to Immuta to make this option available.

• User ID attribute: The attribute that contains the user's username.

The how-to guides linked on this page illustrate how to register your users with Immuta to ensure proper function in the Immuta modules: Detect and Secure.

See the User identity best practices guide for information on the best ways the keep your users in sync with Immuta with the least amount of effort. Use one of the options below to register your users in Immuta:

1. Configure an external identity manager.

2. Manually register users.

Configure an IAM

External identity managers configured in Immuta allow users to authenticate using an existing identity management system and can optionally be used to synchronize user groups and attributes into Immuta.

1. Configure your IAM.

2. Ensure the user IDs are mapped from the integration they will use to Immuta.

3. Manage user permissions.

Manually create users

1. Create the users in Immuta.

2. Ensure the user IDs are mapped from the integration they will use to Immuta.

3. Manage user permissions.

Reference guides

• Identity managers reference guide

• Immuta permissions and personas guide

• Groups and attributes reference guide

External IDs for integrations can be mapped in for Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst (Trino), Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, and HDFS based on attributes from an external IAM system, allowing you to link an external account to the corresponding Immuta account even when usernames do not match between Immuta and the external system.

Configure External User ID Mapping on App Settings Page

External IDs for integrations can be mapped in for Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst (Trino), Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, and HDFS based on attributes from an external IAM system.

1. Click the App Settings icon in the left sidebar and click Identity Management.

2. After you have clicked Add IAM, define the mapping in the Profile Schema section. Note: Mappings can also be disabled on the App Settings page, so it’s possible that not all of these fields will be available.

3. Click Save.

4. Test a login to ensure that the values are picked up correctly.

Manually Configure External User ID Mapping on a User's Page

For IAMs where no mapping has been defined (including Immuta's built-in IAM), the external user ID mappings can be set manually.

1. Click the People icon and select the Users tab.

2. Select the user you want to edit.

3. In the Usernames section, click Edit for the technology username you want to change.

   1. Complete the Username field in the modal that appears and click Save.

   2. For Databricks usernames,

      1. Select Databricks Username to map the Databricks username to the Immuta user and enter the Databricks username in the field.

      2. Select Unset (fallback to Immuta username) to use the Immuta username as the assumed Databricks username. Use this option if the user's Databricks username exactly matches the user's Immuta username.

      3. Select None (user does not exist in Databricks) if this is an Immuta-only user. This option will improve performance for Immuta users who do not have a mapping to Databricks users and will be automatically selected by Immuta if an Immuta user is not found in Databricks. To ensure your Databricks users have policies correctly applied, manually map their usernames using the first option above.

   3. For S3 usernames, use the dropdown menu to select the User Type. Then complete the S3 field. When selecting Unset (fallback to Immuta username), the S3 username is assumed to be the same as the Immuta username. User and role names are case-sensitive. See the AWS documentation for details.

All external IDs are displayed on the user details page and their user profile.

Create group

1. Click the People icon and select the Groups tab.

2. Click the New Group button.

3. In the modal, enter the new group's name. You can opt to enter a description of and email address for the new group.

4. Click Save.

Add user to group

1. Click the People icon and select the Groups tab.

2. Select the group you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. Click the Add Members button.

4. Begin typing in the Search by Member Name or Email text box.

5. Click on the name from the dropdown list to add this user to the group.

Add group or user attribute

1. Click the People icon and select the Groups tab.

2. Select the group you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. Click Add Attributes.

4. Begin typing the attribute name in the Attribute text box.

   • If the attribute already exists, select it from the dropdown list.

   • If the attribute does not exist yet, enter the full name of the attribute, and then select it from the dropdown.

5. In the Attribute Value text box, enter a value.

   • If the value already exists, select it from the dropdown list.

   • If the value does not exist, enter the full name, and then select it from the dropdown.

6. Click Close.

Remove a user from a group

1. Click the People icon and select the Groups tab.

2. Select the group you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. In the members section, click Remove to the right of the member you want to remove.

4. Click Delete to confirm.

Delete a group

1. Click the People icon and select the Groups tab.

2. Select the group you want to edit.

3. Click the more actions icon, and select Delete.

4. Click Delete to confirm.

Remove a user or group's attribute

1. Click the People icon and select Users or Groups.

2. Select the user or group you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. In the Attributes section, click the more actions icon on the attribute value you want to remove.

4. Click Remove and Confirm.

Attributes

Note: User Admins can add attributes in Immuta to external IAM groups using the Add Attributes button.

Attributes can be added to individual users or groups and then included in Data policies and Subscription policies to restrict what data users can see. They can be created by a User Admin in the Immuta UI or mapped in from an external IAM.

To learn how to add attributes to a user or group, navigate to the tutorial.

Groups

Individual users are added into groups, and then groups are used in Data policies and Subscription policies to restrict what data users in each group can see. Groups are also used in assigning members to projects. Users can belong to any number of groups and can be added or removed from groups at any time.

To learn how to create a group, navigate to the tutorial.

The SAML 2.0 single logout (SAML SLO) protocol allows identity providers to terminate sessions across a user's applications nearly simultaneously with a single logout request.

SAML SLO enabled in Immuta can minimize security risks by terminating abandoned sessions after a timeout event occurs or after a user logs out of their identity provider or another application. Once users are logged out of Immuta, they must re-authenticate to log back in.

Requirements

• Immuta APPLICATION_ADMIN permission

• An identity provider that supports the SAML protocol. See this list of supported identity providers and their protocols.

Logout processes

There are two logout processes for SAML SLO:

• Application-initiated logout: A user logs out from a service provider.

• Identity-provider-initiated logout: A user logs out from their identity provider.

The following objects are referenced in both processes below:

• Principal: A user, service, or process that must authenticate with a service before being granted access and privileges.

• Service provider (or session participant): The service or application the principal wants to be granted access to (for example, Immuta).

• Session authority (or identity management provider): The identity management provider that verifies the principal's identity. See this list of supported identity providers for examples.

• Session: The period during which the principal is authenticated with the service provider; a session is started when a user authenticates their identity using a password or another authentication protocol and the service provider has verified that the user is allowed access to their service.

User initiates logout from Immuta

User initiates logout from the identity provider

Supported identity providers

Immuta's SAML SLO support has been tested with the following identity providers:

• Key Cloak

• Microsoft Entra ID

• Okta

See your identity provider's documentation to determine whether or not your provider supports SAML SLO. For a list of identity providers and protocols supported by Immuta, see the identity management support matrix.

Consideration

Immuta cannot ensure that other service providers will log out, as Immuta has no control over those applications.

Okta LDAP Interface is a built-in Okta integration that enables you to expose your Okta directory over standard LDAP wire. The Okta LDAP Interface exposes the entire Okta directory.

1 - Enable LDAP Interface in Your Okta Account

1. Go to the Admin Console in your Okta account.

2. Select Directory, and then click Directory Integrations.

3. Select Add Directory and Add LDAP Interface. You will be presented with the details required to make a successful LDAP connection.

2 - Configure Your IAM in Immuta

1. Navigate to the App Settings page in Immuta.

2. Click the Add IAM button.

3. Complete the Display Name field and select LDAP/Active Directory from the Identity Provider Type dropdown.

4. Adjust Default Permissions granted to users by selecting from the list in this dropdown menu, and then complete the required fields in the Credentials and Options sections. Note: Either User Attribute OR User Search Filter is required, not both. Completing one of these fields disables the other.

5. Opt to have Case-insensitive user names by clicking the checkbox.

6. Opt to Enable Debug Logging or Enable SSL by clicking the checkboxes.

7. In the Profile Schema section, map attributes in LDAP/Active Directory to automatically fill in a user's Immuta profile. Note: Fields that you specify in this schema will not be editable by users within Immuta.

8. Opt to enable the following settings by selecting their checkboxes:

   • Enable scheduled LDAP Sync support for LDAP/Active Directory

   • Require manual approval before a user can use Immuta

   • Enable pagination for LDAP Sync: Once enabled, confirm the sync schedule written in Cron rule; the default is every hour. Confirm the LDAP page size for pagination; the default is 1,000.

   • Sync groups from LDAP/Active Directory to Immuta: Once enabled, map attributes in LDAP/Active Directory to automatically pull information about the groups into Immuta.

   • Sync attributes from LDAP/Active Directory to Immuta: Once enabled, add attribute mappings in the attribute schema. The desired attribute prefix should be mapped to the relevant schema URN.

   • External Groups and Attributes Endpoint

   • Make Default IAM

   • Migrate Users from another IAM

9. Click the Test Connection button.

10. Once the connection is successful, click the Test User Login button.

11. Click the Test LDAP Sync button if scheduled sync has been enabled.

12. Click Save and confirm your changes.

3 - Configure MFA in Okta

To enforce directory-wide MFA, create an authentication policy in Okta (if you do not yet have MFA policies in place).

1. Navigate to Security in the Okta Admin console.

2. Select Authentication, and then click Sign On.

   Note: If you enforce MFA on the user that’s configured as your LDAP bind user, the integration won’t work. You will therefore need to make that user exempt in your MFA policies.

Immuta can consume user attributes from an external HTTP endpoint in an out-of-band fashion. This feature allows you to retrieve users' groups and authorizations from an additional resource, alongside the user attributes retrieved in the authentication flow. Such an external endpoint can be configured on any of the Identity Provider types that Immuta supports.

Implement the HTTP Service

The following section instructs how to implement the HTTP service.

Specifications

Authentication

The service can authenticate requests with both or either of the following methods:

1. Basic username and password Authorization header

2. SSL cert validation

For more information, please refer to Configure an External User Info Endpoint.

Note: Immuta will expect non 200 error codes when the user info cannot be retrieved.

GET /user-info

The user info endpoint will be called each time Immuta needs to synchronize with a remote IAM on user groups and authorizations. Immuta will query the endpoint with the user ID specified in request's query.

Note: The endpoint's path does not necessarily have to be /user-info.

Parameters

Responses

Response schema

Below is an example value that could be returned by the endpoint:

{
  "groups": [{
    "name":  "Accountants",
  }, {
    "name":  "Controllers",
  }],
  "authorizations": {
    "EMEA": ["Sales", "Expenses"],
    "APAC": ["Sales"]
  }
}

Configure an External User Info Endpoint

1. Click the App Settings icon in the left sidebar.

2. If you are modifying an existing IAM, click the name of the IAM. If you are creating a new IAM, click Add IAM.

3. At the very bottom of the IAM section, check the External Groups and Authorizations Endpoint checkbox.

4. In the External User Info URI field, enter the full path to your customer HTTP endpoint.

5. Optionally, check the Use Authentication checkbox and provide the username and password with which Immuta should authenticate when querying the user info endpoint. Immuta will subsequently send requests to the service with a Basic authorization header.

6. Optionally, enable SSL by checking the Enable SSL checkbox.

7. Optionally, if SSL is enabled, check the Require SSL Request Cert if your service requires SSL certificate validation. This step will require that you upload three files:

   • The SSL key file (*.pem)

   • The SSL cert file (*.pem)

   • The SSL CA file (*.pem)

Identity managers are used with Immuta to provide authentication and fine-grained user entitlement. A number of identity managers can be configured and enabled in Immuta, each with a specific set of configuration options that enable Immuta to communicate with the IAM system and map the users, permissions, groups, and attributes into Immuta.

Immuta's built-in identity manager

The Immuta IAM can be used as a complete solution for authentication and authorization. Group and attribute values within the Immuta IAM can be used to broker access to projects and data sources and to create policies.

The Immuta IAM is enabled by default, so there are no additional configuration options needed to support this mode.

External identity managers

External identity managers configured in Immuta allow users to authenticate using an existing identity management system and can optionally be used to synchronize user groups and attributes into Immuta. The synchronization between Immuta and your external IAM is one-way: changes made to your users' entitlements or users added in Immuta will not be reflected in your external IAM. Each identity manager configured in Immuta is assigned a unique identifier, referred to as the IAM ID, and all users, groups, and attributes are associated with exactly one IAM ID.

IAM protocol feature support matrix

The table below illustrates the features supported by each IAM protocol.

IAM solutions support matrix

The table below illustrates common providers that support the protocols listed above. However, this list may not be all-inclusive, and if a provider stops supporting a protocol, Immuta may not fully support that provider.

Identity manager options and configuration

Identity managers are added from the app settings page. Settings like default permissions, profile schema, group schema, group permissions, and external groups and attributes endpoint are managed from that page as well.

Default permissions

Each identity manager supports the configuration of default permissions. This configuration setting controls what permissions each user who logs in receives by default. These permissions are applied the first time each user logs in, and any changes to the default permissions will only apply to new users.

In the case where the default permissions are empty, new users receive no special permissions in Immuta and an administrator will need to grant them any permissions that they need. Alternatively, group permissions may be configured, in which case permissions will be evaluated based on the groups users belong to.

Migrating users

On the app settings page, application admins can migrate user accounts from one identity manager configured in Immuta to another.

Once this setting is enabled, Immuta checks user IDs when users log in against the IAM they are migrating from, so the user IDs for these accounts must match. (For example, if their userID in Immuta's built-in IAM is consumer@example.com, their user ID in the new IAM should be consumer@example.com.) Then, users' profiles will be moved to the new IAM, including their subscriptions, permissions, and pending requests.

If a user does not have an exact user ID match, a user admin can manually migrate their account.

SCIM support

When configuring a SAML or OpenID IAM, application admins can enable SCIM support, which allows these IAMs to automatically create new users in Immuta and keep existing users up-to-date. Once enabled, the majority of the profile schema fields will be hidden and automatically synced from the SCIM response. The API key will be displayed to be used to configure provisioning in the external IAM. After the configuration is saved, it will be hashed. A new key can be regenerated here if the old key is ever lost.

If SCIM support is not enabled in a SAML configuration, administrators must disable relevant users in Immuta if they are removed from the IAM, since the IAM will not send Immuta those updates.

Microsoft Entra ID limitation

SCIM will skip updates and will not inform Immuta that an attribute should be removed from a user in the following scenarios, even if the attribute mapping has been deleted from the IAM configuration on the Immuta app settings page:

• Attribute is set to empty (removed) in Microsoft Entra ID

• Attribute is deleted in Microsoft Entra ID

In both of these scenarios, Azure doesn’t send Immuta a payload to remove the attribute, as it considers the action a redundant export. As a result, the attribute values that previously existed in Microsoft Entra ID will not get removed from the user in Immuta.

To remediate this limitation, take one of the following actions:

• Change the attribute to a non-impacting value other than empty in Microsoft Entra ID.

• Alternatively, remove the attribute mapping from the attribute schema section of the IAM configuration on the Immuta app settings page. Then, trigger an update for that user in Microsoft Entra ID by making a change to any value for that user. Microsoft Entra ID will send an update for that user to Immuta, and Immuta will remove the attribute from the user. Note that if that attribute mapping is ever re-added in Immuta on the app settings page, that attribute will be added to the user again.

See Known issues for provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID for more details about this limitation.

Attribute mapping

Attribute mapping for SCIM is slightly different compared to the normal attribute mapping for IAMs. For SCIM mapping, the desired attribute prefix should be mapped to the relevant schema URN:

In Immuta this attribute would translate from SCIM Schema Attribute: “urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:Test” into Immuta Attribute: “scimuser.Test”

LDAP sync

LDAP sync takes an existing and configured LDAP IAM and seeds Immuta with all of its users, subject to the intersection of the IAM's user search filter and the plugin's user search filter. When configuring an LDAP/Active Directory IAM , application admins can enable scheduled LDAP sync; this will allow directory users to be registered within Immuta without the users having to log directly into Immuta.

Once enabled, LDAP sync will automatically provision and sync users from LDAP on an approved schedule. The default is every hour, but can be adjusted to an organization's needs.

Application admins can also enable pagination for LDAP sync, which will be a predetermined page size when searching LDAP during this scheduled sync.

Profile schema

Each identity manager configured has a mapping of attributes from the source system into attributes on the user profile in Immuta.

Profile schema attributes provide general purpose user information and cannot be used as entitlements for policies.

Group schema

Identity managers that support group synchronization will have a group schema configuration option. This defines how group attributes are mapped in Immuta.

This example is the group schema mapping for an LDAP/Active Directory IAM.

Group permissions

When an identity manager is configured to synchronize groups you will have the option to define a mapping of groups to Immuta permissions. Users who belong to one of the given groups will be granted the listed permissions automatically. Additionally, user admins can add attributes in Immuta to groups from external IAMs.

External groups and attributes endpoint

An IAM system can be used for authentication and combined with an external REST endpoint to retrieve user groups and attributes. This option provides flexibility in exactly how groups and attributes are associated with users in Immuta.

Permissions are a system-level mechanism that control what actions a user is allowed to take through the Immuta and UI and reflect their user persona. Permissions can be added to any user by a user admin, but the permissions themselves are managed by Immuta and cannot be added or removed in the Immuta UI.

User personas

• Application admins: Application admins manage the configuration of Immuta for their organization. These users can configure Immuta to use external identity managers and catalogs, enable or disable data handlers, adjust email and cache settings, generate system API keys, and manage various other advanced settings.

• Data owners: In order for data to be available in the Immuta platform, a data owner — the individual or team responsible for the data — needs to connect their data to Immuta. Once data is connected to Immuta, that data is called a data source. Once registered as a data source, the data owners have permission to set and on those data sources. Data owners can also build just like governors, but they are .

• Data users: Data users consume the data available through Immuta in their data platform as usual.

• Project owners: These users can create their own project to get approvals for .

• Governors: Governors set within Immuta, meaning they can apply policies across all data sources. Additionally they can , manage all , and manage all .

• Project managers: These users inspect, manage, approve, and deny various project changes, including purpose requests and project data sources.

• User admins: These users are able to manage the permissions, attributes, and groups that attach to each user. Permissions are only managed locally within Immuta, but groups and attributes can be managed locally or derived from user management frameworks, such as LDAP or Active Directory, that are external to Immuta.

The table below illustrates the Immuta permissions associated with each user persona:

Permissions

• APPLICATION_ADMIN: Gives the user access to administrative actions for the configuration of Immuta. These actions include

  • Adding external IAMs.

  • Adding ODBC drivers.

  • Adding external catalogs.

  • Configuring email settings.

• AUDIT: Gives the user access to the audit logs.

• CREATE_FILTER: Gives the user the ability to create and save a search filter.

• FETCH_POLICY_INFO: Gives the user access to an endpoint that returns visibilities, masking information, and filters for a given data source.

• IMPERSONATE_USER: Allows user to impersonate other Immuta users.

• PROJECT_MANAGEMENT: Allows users to create purposes, approve and deny purpose requests, and manage project data sources.

• USER_ADMIN: Gives the user access to administrative actions for managing users in Immuta. These include

  • Creating and managing users and groups.

  • Adding and removing user permissions.

  • Creating and managing user attributes.

It is also possible to create custom permissions, which should be used for assigning manual subscription policy approvals.

User metrics

Purpose

Collecting Immuta usage metrics from customers helps Immuta gain insight into how customers are using Immuta (not who they are or what their data looks like) to understand what features are heavily used. These metrics guide improvements to the user experience.

What is collected?

The metrics collected are anonymized data points that provide information on Immuta feature usage but cannot be linked to an individual user or data source. Specifically, Immuta collects what workflows the users are completing and what the users are touching in the UI.

• Workflows users are completing: These workflow metrics (creating policies, data sources, projects, etc.) are aggregates, such as the number of data sources created in a day, not individual events.

• What users are touching: These metrics indicate what users click in Immuta, such as the create a data source button.

Benefits

• Product input: Input from customer metrics helps Immuta make product decisions. Providing your metrics is the best way to provide product feedback directly to Immuta.

• Improve user experience: Insights into the activity of different personas (governors, data owners) can be used to improve the Immuta user interface and create meaningful feedback loops.

• Internal insights: Gaining insights into your own Immuta use can reveal habit loops or pain points that users experience that may not be obvious. Metrics will enable those to be identified and improved.

• Prove value: Quantifying the areas of Immuta that you are using the most is the key to understanding the value that Immuta brings to your organization.

Native impersonation allows users to natively query data as another Immuta user.

User impersonation is supported with

User Impersonation with Amazon Redshift

1 - Enable User Impersonation

Select Enable Impersonation when configuring the Redshift integration on the .

2 - Grant Users the IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

After enabling user impersonation with your Amazon Redshift integration, there are two ways to give a user permission to use the feature: in the Immuta UI or in Amazon Redshift. Use the tabs below to select one method.

3 - Impersonate a User

To impersonate another user in Redshift,

1. Run CALL immuta_procedures.impersonate_user(<Immuta username of the user to impersonate>).

2. Run queries.

4 - End User Impersonation

To end user impersonation in Redshift, run CALL immuta_procedures.impersonate_user(<NULL>).

5 - Revoke Users' IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

To revoke permission to impersonate users,

Redshift-Specific Caveats

User impersonation is specific to the script and session in which it was set. Using a new script or running a subset of script queries without setting the context will result in the queries being run as the regular user.

User Impersonation with Azure Synapse Analytics

1 - Enable User Impersonation

2 - Grant Users the IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

After enabling user impersonation with your Azure Synapse Analytics integration, there are two ways to give a user permission to use the feature: in the Immuta UI or in Azure Synapse Analytics. Use the tabs below to select one method.

3 - Impersonate a User

To impersonate another user in Synapse,

1. Run the following command:
2. Run queries.

4 - End User Impersonation

To end user impersonation in Synapse, run EXEC sys.sp_set_session_context @key = N'NULL', @value = '<NULL>'.

5 - Revoke Users' IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

To revoke permission to impersonate users,

Synapse-Specific Caveats

• User impersonation is specific to the script and session in which it was set. Opening a new script will revert the user back to themselves.

User Impersonation with Databricks Spark

Databricks user impersonation allows a Databricks user to impersonate an Immuta user. With this feature,

• the Immuta user who is being impersonated does not have to have a Databricks account, but they must have an Immuta account.

• the Databricks user who is impersonating an Immuta user does not have to be associated with Immuta. For example, this could be a service account.

When acting under impersonation, the Databricks user loses their privileged access, so they can only access the tables the Immuta user has access to and only perform DDL commands when that user is acting under an allowed circumstance (such as workspaces, scratch paths, or non-Immuta reads/writes).

1 - Configure User Impersonation

Follow one of these methods to allow specified Databricks users to impersonate Immuta users:

• In the Spark environment variables section of the Databricks UI, add IMMUTA_SPARK_DATABRICKS_ALLOWED_IMPERSONATION_USERS followed by a comma-separated list of Databricks users who are allowed to impersonate Immuta users.

2 - Impersonate a User

Once the cluster is configured with a list of Databricks users who are allowed to impersonate Immuta users, run the following SQL command to set the user you want to impersonate:

3 - Query Data

Run queries as the impersonated Immuta user:

Example Queries

Once impersonation is active, any query issued in the session will have the appropriate data and subscription policies applied for the impersonated user. Consider the example queries in the tabs below.

Audited Queries

Audited queries include an impersonationUser field, which identifies the Databricks user impersonating the Immuta user:

4 - End User Impersonation

To end user impersonation for the session, run

Databricks-Specific Caveat

The only way to enable this feature is through cluster configuration. The IMPERSONATE_USER permission in Immuta will not allow a user to perform native impersonation in Databricks.

User Impersonation with Starburst (Trino)

1 - Grant Users the IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

To grant the user IMPERSONATE_USER permission, as an Immuta user with the permission USER_ADMIN,

1. Navigate to your Immuta homepage.

2. Click the People icon and select Users in the left sidebar. Then select the user.

3. Click Add Permissions.

4. Click the Select Permission dropdown, and select the IMPERSONATE_USER permission.

5. Click Close.

2 - Impersonate a User

The Starburst (Trino) integration supports the native Starburst or Trino impersonation approaches:

3 - Check User Impersonation

To view the user you are impersonating, run SHOW SESSION like 'immuta.immuta_user'.

4 - End User Impersonation

To end user impersonation, run RESET SESSION immuta.immuta_user.

5 - Revoke Users' IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

To revoke permission to impersonate users, as an Immuta user with the permission USER_ADMIN,

1. Click the People icon in the navigation and select the Users tab.

2. Select the user you want to edit and select the Settings tab.

3. Click Remove for the IMPERSONATE_USER permission.

Caveat

The user's permissions to impersonate users are not checked until the query is run. If the user does not have the IMPERSONATE_USER permission in Immuta, they will be able to run the command to impersonate a role, but will not be able to query as that role.

User Impersonation with Snowflake

1 - Enable User Impersonation

2 - Grant Users the IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

After enabling user impersonation with your Snowflake integration, there are two ways to give a user permission to use the feature: in the Immuta UI or in Snowflake. Use the tabs below to select one method.

3 - Impersonate a User

To impersonate another user in Snowflake,

1. Open a New Worksheet and set your role to the impersonation role specific to your organization.

2. Run SET immuta_user = '<<Immuta username of the user to impersonate>>'.

3. Run queries within that worksheet.

4 - Revoke Users' IMPERSONATE_USER Permission

To revoke permission to impersonate users,

Snowflake-Specific Caveats

• Native impersonation is specific to the workspace and session in which it was set. Opening a new worksheet will revert the user back to themselves.

• Snowflake auditing will show the user running the queries as the user logged in to Snowflake not as the user they are impersonating.