Harmony SASE

Empower just-in-time group membership for Harmony SASE via Apono

Harmony Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provides cloud-delivered network security, allowing organizations to streamline secure remote access with precision.

Integrating Harmony SASE with Apono allows you to automate just-in-time access by temporarily adding users to specific Harmony SASE groups. This ensures the right users get access only when needed and are automatically removed when access expires, which is ideal for short-term projects or incident response. This approach strengthens security, reduces operational overhead, and supports least-privilege access practices.

Prerequisites

Item
Description

Harmony account access

Harmony SASE user account hosted by Perimeter 81 or Check Point

Apono connector

On-prem connection serving as a bridge between an SSH server and Apono:

Learn how to update an existing AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes connector.

Harmony API key

Unique key generated in Harmony platform to authenticate connection with Apono Learn how to generate an API key with Harmony. NOTE: When creating the key, select all Key Permissions under the following categories for Apono to access your Harmony instance:

  • Members

  • Groups

Apono secret

Value generated with the credentials of the user you create

Create your secret based on your Redis Cloud API account key and user key:

  • "api_key": <ACCOUNT_KEY>

  • "secret_key": <USER_KEY>

Apono does not store credentials. The Apono Connector uses the secret to communicate with services in your environment and separate the Apono web app from the environment for maximal security.

Integrate Harmony SASE

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You can also use the steps below to integrate with Apono using Terraform.

In step 10, instead of clicking Confirm, follow the Are you integrating with Apono using Terraform? guidance.

Follow these steps to complete the integration:

  1. On the Catalog tab, click Harmony. The Connect Integration page appears.

  2. Under Discovery, click Next. The Apono connector section expands.

  3. From the dropdown menu, select a connector. Choosing a connector links Apono to all the services available on the account where the connector is located.

If the desired connector is not listed, click + Add new connector and follow the instructions for creating a connector (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes).

  1. Click Next. The Integration Config page appears.

  2. Enter a unique, alphanumeric, user-friendly Integration Name to identify the integration when constructing an access flow.

  3. From the dropdown menu, select a Region for the config’s activity.

  4. Click Next. The Secret Store section expands.

  5. Associate the secret or credentials.

If you select the Apono secret manager, enter the value of your Harmony SASE workspace API Key.

  1. Click Next. The Get more with Apono section expands.

  2. Define the Get more with Apono settings.

Setting
Description

Custom Access Details

(Optional) Instructions explaining how to access this integration's resources Upon accessing an integration, a message with these instructions will be displayed to end users in the User Portal. The message may include up to 400 characters. To view the message as it appears to end users, click Preview.

Integration Owner

(Optional) Fallback approver if no resource owner is found Follow these steps to define one or several integration owners:

  1. From the Attribute dropdown menu, select User or Group under the relevant identity provider (IdP) platform.

  2. From the Value dropdown menu, select one or multiple users or groups.

NOTE: When Resource Owner is defined, an Integration Owner must be defined.

Resource Owner

(Optional) Group or role responsible for managing access approvals or rejections for the resource Follow these steps to define one or several resource owners:

  1. Enter a Key name. This value is the name of the tag created in your cloud environment.

  2. From the Attribute dropdown menu, select an attribute under the IdP platform to which the key name is associated. Apono will use the value associated with the key (tag) to identify the resource owner. When you update the membership of the group or role in your IdP platform, this change is also reflected in Apono.

NOTE: When this setting is defined, an Integration Owner must also be defined.

  1. Click Confirm.

💡Are you integrating with Apono using Terraform?

If you want to integrate with Apono using Terraform, follow these steps instead of clicking Confirm:

  1. At the top of the screen, click View as Code. A modal appears with the completed Terraform configuration code.

  2. Click to copy the code.

  3. Make any additional edits.

  4. Deploy the code in your Terraform.

Refer to Integration Config Metadata for more details about the schema definition.

Usage

Now that the integration is complete, you can add Harmony SASE to define the grantees or resources in an access flow. This allows only the correct requesters to securely access your Harmony-synced groups, based on the access flow’s approval and provisioning rules.

Follow the guidance in these articles to define the resource using Harmony SASE.

Access flow type
Resources

Self Serve

Automatic

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