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Duo Protection for Bonusly with Duo Access Gateway

Last Updated: June 1st, 2022

Duo offers a variety of methods for adding two-factor authentication and flexible security policies to Bonusly SSO logins, complete with inline self-service enrollment and Duo Prompt.

Duo Access Gateway reaches Last Day of Support on October 26, 2023 for Duo Essentials, Advantage, and Premier customers. As of that date Duo Support may only assist with the migration of existing Duo Access Gateway applications to Duo Single Sign-On. Customers may not create new DAG applications after May 19, 2022. Please see the Guide to Duo Access Gateway end of life for more details.

Use the Duo Single Sign-on for Bonusly application to protect Bonusly with Duo Single Sign-On, our cloud-hosted identity provider featuring Duo Central and the Duo Universal Prompt.

Bonusly requires Duo Access Gateway version 1.2.1 or greater. Please upgrade your Duo Access Gateway before attempting to use Bonusly.

Overview

As business applications move from on-premises to cloud hosted solutions, users experience password fatigue due to disparate logons for different applications. Single sign-on (SSO) technologies seek to unify identities across systems and reduce the number of different credentials a user has to remember or input to gain access to resources.

While SSO is convenient for users, it presents new security challenges. If a user's primary password is compromised, attackers may be able to gain access to multiple resources. In addition, as sensitive information makes its way to cloud-hosted services it is even more important to secure access by implementing two-factor authentication and zero-trust policies.

Duo Access Gateway

Duo Access Gateway (DAG), our on-premises SSO product, layers Duo's strong authentication and flexible policy engine on top of Bonusly logins using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 authentication standard. Duo Access Gateway acts as an identity provider (IdP), authenticating your users using existing on-premises or cloud-based directory credentials and prompting for two-factor authentication before permitting access to Bonusly.

Duo Access Gateway is included in the Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans, which also include the ability to define policies that enforce unique controls for each individual SSO application. For example, you can require that Salesforce users complete two-factor authentication at every login, but only once every seven days when accessing Bonusly. Duo checks the user, device, and network against an application's policy before allowing access to the application.

Deploy or Update Duo Access Gateway

  1. Install Duo Access Gateway on a server in your DMZ. Follow our instructions for deploying the server, configuring DAG settings, and adding an Authentication Source.

  2. Add the attribute from the table below that corresponds to the Duo Mail attribute in the "Attributes" field when configuring your Active Directory or OpenLDAP authentication source in the DAG admin console. For example, if Active Directory is your authentication source, enter mail in the "Attributes" field.

    Duo Attribute Active Directory OpenLDAP
    Mail attribute mail mail

    If your organization uses another directory attribute than the ones listed here then enter that attribute name instead. If you've already configured the attributes list for another cloud service provider, append the additional attributes not already present to the list, separated by a comma.

  3. After completing the initial DAG configuration steps, click Applications on the left side of the Duo Access Gateway admin console.

  4. Scroll down the Applications page to the Metadata section. This is the information you need to provide to Bonusly when configuring SSO.

    DAG Metadata Information

Enable Bonusly SSO

Add the Duo Access Gateway as a new single sign-on provider for Bonusly.

  1. Log on to Bonusly as an administrative user and navigate to SettingsIntegrationSingle Sign-On. Click on SAML.

  2. Make note of the SSO URL on the Bonusly SAML Integration page. You will need this information later.

  3. Copy the SSO URL information from the Duo Access Gateway admin console Metadata display and paste it into the Bonusly IdP SSO target URL field.

    Example: https://yourserver.example.com/dag/saml2/idp/SSOService.php

  4. Leave the IdP Login URL field blank.

  5. Copy the Entity ID URL from the Duo Access Gateway admin console metadata display and paste it into the Bonusly SSO IdP Issuer field.

    Example: https://yourserver.example.com/dag/saml2/idp/metadata.php

  6. Leave the X.509 Cert field blank.

  7. Copy the SHA-1 Fingerprint from the Duo Access Gateway admin console Metadata display and paste it into the Bonusly Cert fingerprint field.

  8. You can force SSO login by checking the box next to Disable web login.

  9. You can turn off manual user provisioning by checking the box next to Disable user mgmt.

  10. After you've entered all the required information click Save.

    Bonusly Single Sign-On Settings

Learn more about Bonusly SSO by contacting Bonusly Support.

Create the Bonusly Application in Duo

  1. Log on to the Duo Admin Panel and navigate to Applications.

  2. Click Protect an Application and locate the entry for Bonusly with a protection type of "2FA with SSO self-hosted (Duo Access Gateway)" in the applications list. Click Protect to the far-right to start configuring Bonusly. See Protecting Applications for more information about protecting applications in Duo and additional application options.

  3. Copy the Bonusly SSO URL from Enable Bonusly SSO and paste it into the SSO URL field in the Duo Admin Panel.

  4. Bonusly uses the Mail attribute when authenticating. We've mapped Mail attribute to DAG supported authentication source attributes as follows:

    Duo Attribute Active Directory OpenLDAP SAML IdP Google Azure
    Mail attribute mail mail mail email mail

    If you are using a non-standard email attribute for your authentication source, check the Custom attributes box and enter the name of the attribute you wish to use instead.

  5. Click Save Configuration when done.

    Duo Bonusly Application Settings
  6. You can adjust additional settings for your new SAML application at this time — like changing the application's name from the default value, enabling self-service, or assigning a group policy — or come back and change the application's policies and settings after you finish SSO setup. If you do update any settings, click the Save Changes button when done.

  7. Click the Download your configuration file link to obtain the Bonusly application settings (as a JSON file).

    Important: This file contains information that uniquely identifies this application to Duo. Secure this file as you would any other sensitive or password information. Don't share it with unauthorized individuals or email it to anyone under any circumstances!

Add the Bonusly Application to Duo Access Gateway

Before you do this, verify that you updated the "Attributes" list for your Duo Access Gateway authentication source as specified here.

  1. Return to the Applications page of the DAG admin console session.

  2. Click the Choose File button in the "Add Application" section of the page and locate the Bonusly SAML application JSON file you downloaded from the Duo Admin Panel earlier. Click the Upload button after selecting the JSON configuration file.

  3. The Bonusly SAML application is added.

    Bonusly Application Added

Verify SSO

You can log on to Bonusly with IdP-initiated SSO via Duo Access Gateway using the Login URL provided by the DAG server when you created the Bonusly application in the DAG admin console (https://yourserver.example.com/dag/saml2/idp/SSOService.php?spentityid=https://bonus.ly).

This takes you to the Duo Access Gateway login page. Enter your primary directory logon information, approve Duo two-factor authentication, and get redirected to the Bonusly site.

DAG Login and Authentication Prompt

Congratulations! Your Bonusly users now authenticate using Duo Access Gateway.

Configure Allowed Hostnames

If you plan to permit use of WebAuthn authentication methods (security keys, U2F tokens, or Touch ID) in the traditional Duo Prompt, Duo recommends configuring allowed hostnames for this application and any others that show the inline Duo Prompt before onboarding your end-users.

The Duo Universal Prompt has built-in protection from unauthorized domains so this setting does not apply.

Bonusly does not support SP-initiated SSO login at this time.

Microsoft AD FS

Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is a popular choice for SSO because it easily integrates with the AD identity store many organizations already have deployed. Duo's support for cloud applications and SSO drops in to an existing AD FS installation to provide secondary authentication after a user passes primary authentication (successful Active Directory logon).

If you don't already have AD federation running the first step is to install and configure Microsoft AD FS in your organization. Deployment Guides for AD FS versions 2.1, and 3.0/4.0 are available from Microsoft.

Once your AD FS services are up and running, the second step is to configure the SSO partnership between your AD FS service and the external cloud resource, in this case Bonusly. Learn more about configuring Bonusly SSO with AD FS at the Bonusly Support Contact Site.

After you have successfully configured and tested AD FS SSO login to Bonusly using your AD domain credentials, you can then install the Duo AD FS integration. AD FS protection is included with Duo's paid plans.

With the Duo integration for AD FS installed, users pass primary authentication to the AD FS service as usual. Once primary authentication succeeds, users are forwarded to the Duo service for secondary authentication. After approving logon using one of Duo's authentication methods, the user is fully logged in to Bonusly.

Other Identity Partners

Using a third-party SSO provider for cloud application access? Duo partners with leading cloud SSO providers like Okta and OneLogin to secure access with our strong and flexible authentication platform.

You can also use Duo two-factor authentication with CAS and Shibboleth on-premises IdPs.

Troubleshooting

Need some help? Try searching our Knowledge Base articles or Community discussions. For further assistance, contact Support.