SecSign ID Plugin: Confluence Cloud Setups

Confluence is a web application for operational project management as well as for error management and troubleshooting. Confluence was developed by the company Atlassian. Confluence has comprehensive features and a high adaptability. Thus, the functionality of Confluence can be optionally expanded or adapted by using plugins (add-on’s).

SecSign ID is a plugin for real two-factor authentication (2FA) for Confluence. 2FA adds another layer of security to your installation by using a second token. In this case the physical token is your smartphone.

For on-premise Confluence protection without SAML please refer to our guide on the integration of our SecSign ID on-premise Confluence plugin.

To add on-premise authentication protection to your on-premise Atlassian setup with SAML, please refer to our SAML integration information for on-premise setups.

Questions? Feel free to get in touch with us if you need help setting up your SecSign ID plugin or to request a plugin for a not yet supported environment.

To use the SecSign ID SAML Two-Factor Authentication with your Cloud Confluence Setup you need to activate the Atlassian Identity Manager. Please refer to the Atlassian guide on how to opt-in to using the Identity Manager.

Once you verified your Domain you can go ahead and activate the SAML Authentication with SecSign ID.

Open to your Atlassian Confluence Backend and navigate to [ your Organization ] > SAML Single-Sign On > Add SAML configuration

Enter the following parameter:

Identity provider Entity ID: [ your SecSign ID server address ] for example https://admin.secsign.com/SAML_Login

Identity provider SSO URL: [ your SecSign ID server address ] for example https://admin.secsign.com/SAML_Login

To enter the public x509 certificate navigate to your SecSign ID Administrator Backend and select the user that holds the certificate to sign.
For an overview of the users holding a certificate navigate to “Certificate user” in your SecSign ID Administrator Backend and select details for our URL, in this case *.secsign.com
Expand the certificate by selecting the triangle at the certificate. Copy the Certificate PEM encoded in your clipboard and switch back to the Atlassian Backend settings.

Public x509 certificate: Copy the PEM Certificate from the SecSign ID Administrator Backend

Save the configuration.

Create a new SAML-Service-Provider in your SecSign ID Administrator page.

Enter the following parameter:

Service Provider Issuer: Copy the SP Entity ID from your Atlassian Administrator Backend and enter it here

Audience Restriction: Same Entry as Service Provider Issuer

SAML response URL: Enter the SP Assertion Consumer Service URL from your Atlassian Administrator Backend

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