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Cisco Secure Access Help Configure Integrations with SAML Identity Providers Configure AD FS for SAML

Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

Configure AD FS for SAML

Cisco Secure Access uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to authenticate and authorize web requests from user devices on networks and network tunnels with Web security enabled, and requests to private resources from user devices with Zero Trust Access (ZTA) enabled. To support SAML authentication and authorization, you must configure the integration of an SAML identity provider (IdP) in Secure Access.

Configure Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) with Secure Access by uploading the AD FS XML metadata file to Secure Access, or alternatively add the AD FS metadata in Secure Access manually.

For information about provisioning users from AD FS to Secure Access, see Provision Users and Groups from Active Directory.