Tutorial: Configure Continuous Authentication for a Table

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title: Tutorial: Configure Continuous Authentication for a Table
description: Procedure that describes end-to-end configuration of continuous authentication policy for a table and the impacts to the users due to the configuration changes.
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breadcrumb: [Configuring CA, Continuous Authentication \(CA\), Zero Trust Access, Access Management]
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# Tutorial: Configure Continuous Authentication for a Table

Procedure that describes end-to-end configuration of continuous authentication policy for a table and the impacts to the users due to the configuration changes.

## Before you begin

-   Role required: ca\_admin

    **Note:** You must elevate your role to **ca\_admin**.

-   You must install the **Zero Trust - Continuous Authentication** \(`com.snc.zero_trust_continuous_authentication`\) to use CA, which requires a license.
-   Enable the Continuous Authentication \(**glide.zta.continuous\_authentication.enabled**\) system property. For more information, see [Continuous authentication system properties](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/ca-system-properties.md).
-   Activate the Integration - Multiple Provider Single Sign-On Installer \(**com.snc.integration.sso.multi.installer**\) plugin.
-   Understand the pre-work that is required before configuring CA for the instance. For more information, see [Pre-work for Continuous Authentication](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/pre-work-ca.md).

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Continuous Authentication**.

2.  Select **Policies** tab.

3.  Select **New**.

4.  On the form, fill in the fields:

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Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Policy Name

</td><td>

Name of the policy

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Generic description to the policy

</td></tr><tr><td>

Select the resources

</td><td>

Select the **Table**.**Note:**

-   In this example, **Incident** table is selected. You can select as many tables as you need.
-   Table selected with metadata displays an error. You need to check if you actually want to restrict access to the metadata table, since it can impact configuration access to your users.
-   The **sys\_properties**, **sys\_continuous\_auth\_policy**, **sys\_user** tables are excluded for CA and cannot be added to the CA policy configuration.


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>    \[Omitted image "ca-policy.png"\] Alt text: CA Policy record

    **Note:** You can use either of the login methods for the CA policy:

    -   **SSO based login**: Specify the fields in the **Continuous Authentication** tab within the Identity Provider record and set the Identity Provider record as **Active**. \[Omitted image "ca-tab.png"\] Alt text: Continuous Authentication - tab information

        To know more about Identity Providers configuration, see [OIDC](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/authentication/create-OIDC-configuration-SSO.md) and [SAML](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/authentication/t_CreateASAML2Upd1SSOConfigMultiSSO.md).

    -   **Non-SSO based login**: By default, if there are no Identity Providers with Continuous Authentication configuration, Multi-factor Authentication \(MFA\) is used as a login method. Make sure the MFA properties are Active and configured based on your requirement. To know more about MFA properties, see [Multi-factor Authentication system properties](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/authentication/mfa-properties.md).
5.  Select **Save &amp; Activate**.


## Result

Based on the details provided for the configuration, CA policy is created with Access Control List \(ACLs\) for the selected table or data class. You can view the details of the ACLs that are created by selecting the **View ACLs** on the policy page.

\[Omitted image "ca-acl-details.png"\] Alt text: CA ACL details

The created CA policy prompts the user for authentication to access table \(in this case **Incident** table\) that you've protected using the policy. The users can select **Authenticate** option.

\[Omitted image "ca-policy-enforced-tables.png"\] Alt text: CA Policy enforced

Perform the authentication based on the following:

-   User who had performed local login to log in to the instance, is displayed with platform MFA for step-up authentication.

    \[Omitted image "mobile-screen-mfa.png"\] Alt text: MFA-SMS

-   User who had performed SSO login \(OIDC or SAML\) to log in to the instance is displayed with the SSO for re-authentication.

    \[Omitted image "ca-sso-screen.png"\] Alt text: SSO - Screen


After successful authentication the table is displayed.

\[Omitted image "ca-incident-table-after-login.png"\] Alt text: Incident table after successful login

A high assurance session is now established for the user. High assurance session is limited to the High Assurance session length \(**glide.zta.high\_assurance.session.timeout**\) system property. If the high assurance session time exceeds the property length, the user is prompted for re-authentication or step-up authentication.

**Related topics**  


[Configure Continuous Authentication](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/configure-ca.md)

[High assurance session with continuous authentication](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/high-assurance-ca.md)

[Exploring Continuous Authentication](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/explore-continuous-auth.md)