SOLUTION BRIEF

OneLogin Enterprise Sandbox
Reduce change management errors using a secure testing environment

Key Beneﬁts●Eﬃciency and agility in testing & development: Manage the various demands of your testing anddevelopment cycles eﬃciently without worry of downtime.

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Eliminate risks and technical errors: Remove risks and technical errors during the developmental phase fora successful live roll-out with proper testing.

●Conﬁdence in implementation: Perform all your major or minor tests and developments in a safe
environment with the conﬁdence they are functioning as expected.

●Speed up delivery: Test on your own safeguarded production data, copy over quickly and easily, andeliminate any production surprises.

Overview
Managing identity can be challenging and complex. On top of this, IT teams need to adopt innovative security
features to keep corporate resources and data protected from cyber attacks, while also providing best-in-classexperiences for all their users. An identity platform needs to respond to fast, frequent changes at the speed of thebusiness, while supporting quick innovation. In order to succeed, IT Admins need the ability to test new capabilities
and conﬁgurations without impacting daily operations or changing their existing infrastructure.
However, building a test environment from scratch by running code on a server or network that is not identical toproduction data, or pulling in non-isolated services, is not ideal. Plus, without proper testing, you are at risk of users
getting locked out, or worse, exposing additional security vulnerabilities as a result of inappropriate access.

OneLogin Enterprise Sandbox
The OneLogin Enterprise Sandbox allows you to simplify change management and test new capabilities andconﬁgurations in a safe staging environment at scale before conﬁdently deploying to production. With a single clickof a button, the Enterprise Sandbox makes a copy of near-production data, including your apps, mappings, groups,
policies, roles, users, and customer user ﬁelds–among other objects.
By using an isolated testing environment for your identity management needs, the Enterprise Sandbox allows you tosimplify change management, prevent errors, and move development forward, so you can continue to deliver best-inclass experiences for your workforce, customers, and partners.

Top Use Cases for OneLogin Enterprise Sandbox
The OneLogin Enterprise Sandbox can be used for a variety of use cases including:●

Test changes to mappings●

Test new features●

Test a gradual roll-out of features●

Conduct full-scale performance testing

Test changes to mappings
For IT Admins, a large part of identity management involves adding new mappings or changes to existing
mappings. Mappings are a powerful method to automatically assign application access to users or roles based on
conditional statements.
However, the proliferation of multiple mappings quickly adds more complexity to the process, thereby increasing
the amount of time needed to conﬁgure diﬀerent mappings every time a change is needed. Furthermore,mappings errors can result in unintended consequences like account lock out or users receiving higher
permission levels to an application than what they need or is permitted by security and compliance requirements.
OneLogin’s Enterprise Sandbox copies over your existing mappings, along with Users, Groups, and Roles, among
other Objects, allowing you to verify changes or new mappings and test whether they have the intended eﬀectbefore rolling out to your production environment.

Test new features
When new features are added to the UI, the Enterprise Sandbox provides an opportunity to understand how newfunctionality, when turned on, will impact end users. Many of our customers also use the Enterprise Sandbox todocument and train users before a new change is rolled out to production.
Admins can conﬁgure a change set via APIs and test in the sandbox. This is best for testing a single, majorchange, to see how it will impact end users.
With an isolated sandbox environment for testing, you can deploy new, innovative security features without thefear of locking users out. Testing in a safe, isolated environment reduces technical errors and ensures yourproduction environment remains active and operational for users during testing.

“It’s priceless to gain an environment that ﬁts our modern model of development, test, andproduction. It helps us to deploy new changes with conﬁdence.”
ROB WILLIAMS | Director of Global Technology Operations, Herman Miller

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Test a gradual roll-out of features
Another relevant use case for the Enterprise Sandbox is testing a gradual roll out of features, especiallythose that take some time to adjust to for users. Perhaps you want to turn on a new feature for
employees only before you roll it out to partners and end-customers. Or maybe you would like to roll it
out to your faculty and staﬀ before enabling it for your students.
For instance, SmartFactor AuthenticationTM, a very popular adaptive MFA product, comprises severalfeatures, such as Smart MFA, Smart Access, and Smart Flows. Depending on the conﬁguration, theresult of turning each one of these features on may vary depending on diﬀerent systems, diﬀerent
browsers, and diﬀerent times of day. Smart Flows, in particular, requires more testing beforehand to
make sure admins are comfortable with the diﬀerent login ﬂows, like the passwordless login ﬂow. The
Enterprise Sandbox allows you to test with real users to ensure user adoption and successful
implementation.

Conduct full-scale performance testing
IT Admins can also leverage the Enterprise Sandbox to test their system’s ability to scale and handle
peak loads. This may be in preparation for a drastic move to remote work or an upcoming busy holiday
season, for example. With our HydraBoost capability, we can handle 1 million authentication requests
per minute, which you can test within your own sandbox to get an idea of how your production
environment will respond to a massive inﬂux of login and authentication requests.
Conducting large scale performance testing before deploying in production helps you execute a large
volume of authentication requests to measure response times and identify potential bottlenecks for endusers.

To learn more about the OneLogin Enterprise Sandbox, visit https://www.onelogin.com/product/sandbox.

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