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Identity-based policies

With Cloudflare Zero Trust, you can create Secure Web Gateway policies that filter outbound traffic down to the user identity level. To do that, you can build DNS, HTTP or Network policies using a set of identity-based selectors. These selectors require you to deploy the Zero Trust WARP client in Gateway with WARP mode.

​​ Identity-based selectors

​​ SAML Attributes

Specify a value from the SAML Attribute Assertion.

UI nameAPI example
SAML Attributesidentity.saml_attributes == "\"finance\""

​​ User Email

Use this selector to create identity-based Gateway rules based on a user’s email.

UI nameAPI example value
User Emailidentity.email == "user-name@company.com"

​​ User Group IDs

Use this selector to create identity-based Gateway rules based on an IdP group ID of which the user is configured as a member in the IdP.

UI nameAPI example
User Group IDsidentity.groups.id == "12jf495bhjd7893ml09o"

​​ User Group Email

Use this selector to create identity-based Gateway rules based on an IdP group email address of which the user is configured as a member in the IdP.

UI nameAPI example
User Group Emailidentity.groups.id == "contractors@company.com"

​​ User Group Names

Use this selector to create identity-based Gateway rules based on an IdP group name of which the user is configured as a member in the IdP.

UI nameAPI example
User Group Emailidentity.groups.name == "\"finance\""

​​ User Name

Use this selector to create identity-based Gateway rules based on an IdP username for a particular user in the IdP.

UI nameAPI example
User Nameidentity.name == "user-name"

​​ IdP groups in Gateway

Cloudflare Gateway can integrate with your organization’s identity providers (IdPs). Before building a Gateway policy for IdP users or groups, be sure to add the IdP as an authentication method.

Because IdPs expose user groups in different formats, reference the list below to choose the appropriate identity-based selector.

​​ Azure AD

SelectorValue
User Group IDs61503835-b6fe-4630-af88-de551dd59a2

The Value is the Object Id for an Azure group.

​​ GitHub

SelectorValue
User Group NamesMarketing

​​ Google

SelectorValue
User Group NamesMarketing

​​ Okta (OIDC)

SelectorValue
User Group NamesMarketing

​​ Okta (SAML)

SelectorAttribute nameAttribute value
SAML AttributesnameMarketing

​​ Generic IdP

If your IdP is not listed above, here is how you can determine which Gateway selector to use:

  1. In Zero Trust, go to Access > Access Groups.
  2. Select Add a Group.
  3. In the Include dropdown, select your IdP group. A text field will appear and prompt for either group names, group IDs, or SAML attributes. You can use this field as the Selector when creating a Gateway firewall policy.