Configure One Identity Starling with NetScaler

There was a comment recently on the Duo integration blog post about how to do a similar integration between Citrix ADC (NetScaler) and One Identity Starling MFA. Thanks to nFactor authentication, this is a relatively simple task. One Identity Starling is very similar to Duo in that there is a ‘RADIUS agent’ that runs as a service on-prem that communicates with a cloud service. This is the first piece to be configured. Getting Started First, … Read more…

Duo Prompt and NetScaler nFactor Auth

Update Sept 10 2019: After some updates to both sides of the code, this now works natively! For details, see the updated blog post here: https://blogs.serioustek.net/post/2019/09/10/duo-mfa-with-netscaler-nfactor-part-2 —– Duo Security provides a rich identity management and authentication platform and it is commonly used to enable multi-factor authentication in enterprise networks. Duo is very flexible and has examples for integrating with NetScaler hereĀ – you will see that there are two different configuration examples: one for using the … Read more…

NetScaler nFactor Authentication

In case you hadn’t noticed, lots of web services have been changing how they do authentication lately…maybe you’ve heard of some of them: Google …or Microsoft What is really going on here? The forms are applying some intelligence based on who you are or what company you work for. For example, if you work for a company that uses federated authentication for Office 365, you will be redirected back to your company’s IdP. How does … Read more…

NetScaler SAML and Okta

These days, SAML authentication is mainstream and web services are expected to support it in some fashion or another; the SAML 2.0 standard is over 10 years old at this point! One of the key areas of focus for NetScaler is Authentication and Authorization and as such you would expect full support of SAML – and you’d be right. But if you’ve never worked with the SAML protocol, it can seem very daunting at first! … Read more…