Configuring Okta or Microsoft Entra ID SSO for an AI Governance Proxy

Choose the protocol before you register anything

Prefer OIDC unless the proxy or your organization requires SAML. Settle this first, then register the proxy as an application in Okta or Microsoft Entra ID.

Register the proxy in Okta or Entra ID

Register the proxy as an application in your identity provider and configure exact redirect URIs. Users who are not assigned to the application must be denied.

Turn claims into enforceable policy roles

Release a stable user identifier and group claims. Map those groups to deny-by-default policy roles, so a user with no mapped group is denied. Group claims resolve to a role that bounds model and tool access.

From identity claim to audit record

1. Identity providerOkta or Entra ID authenticates the user and releases claims.
2. Governance proxyValidates the token or assertion and establishes a session.
3. Policy roleGroup claims resolve to a role that bounds model and tool access.
4. Audit recordEach request is logged against a stable identity and the decision made.

Provisioning, sessions, and how fast access really ends

Test deprovisioning, group claim overage, clock skew, and stale sessions before rollout. Deprovisioning a test user should end access within the lifetime you documented. A user with many group memberships should confirm that overage handling fails closed, and a deliberate clock offset on a test host should reproduce and then resolve validation errors.

Validation tests before rollout

• A user in a mapped group signs in and receives only the intended policy role.
• A user with no mapped group, and a user not assigned to the application, are both denied.
• A test user with many group memberships confirms overage handling fails closed.
• Deprovisioning a test user ends access within the lifetime you documented.
• A deliberate clock offset on a test host reproduces and then resolves validation errors.
• Audit entries show the immutable subject, resolved role, session, and decision for each test.

Where interactive SSO ends and agent identity begins

SSO authenticates people only. AI agents and service workloads need separate, non-interactive identity controls.