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Michael Seibel

AccessOwl 2.0 - Discover and manage your teams SaaS access

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Ever found an ex-employee having access to your apps? AccessOwl discovers all apps and user accounts. We handle your team's SaaS access via Slack for requests, approvals, and automated user provisioning.

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Philip LR
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Thanks for hunting @mwseibel and hello fellow Hunters! 🔎 Have you ever discovered a former employee still having access to one of your SaaS applications? 🌟 Look no further! With AccessOwl, you can detect every application and its users, ensuring no user account is forgotten during offboarding! I'm Philip, the Co-Founder and CEO of AccessOwl. Having faced numerous challenges in managing user access to SaaS applications in my previous companies, we developed AccessOwl to simplify your team's access management. 🤯 The Problem Have you encountered former employees with access to your SaaS tools? Trust me, it happens to all of us. The issue is that most organizations struggle to track the SaaS applications in use and, worse, don't know who has access to which tool. This leads to orphaned user accounts, costing you money and posing a security risk. 🌟 The Solution By connecting to your Google Workspace, AccessOwl automatically scans your entire organization for all SaaS tools and user accounts in use. Picture this: One of our customers believed they were using 100 applications. Guess how many we discovered? 300! With AccessOwl offboarding becomes significantly easier: 1. Trigger an offboarding within AccessOwl or directly in Slack. 2. AccessOwl prompts the application admin to offboard the users or can optionally delete the user accounts on your behalf (available in the paid version). 🦉 What is AccessOwl? AccessOwl manages your team's access to any SaaS application, eliminating the manual work of creating, deleting, and documenting SaaS access. By integrating with Google and Slack workspaces, it simplifies the process, allowing employees to: 💥 Request and approve access in Slack 💥 Automatically provision user accounts 💥 Streamline employee on- and offboarding 💥 Keep track of all access, making SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA audits a breeze 💥 ... and now, it also discovers applications and user accounts! 🎁 For PH launch users only: Use the new AccessOwl Discovery feature completely free of charge! 💡 Do you have any feedback or ideas on how we can improve AccessOwl? We'd love to hear from you in the comments! ~Philip
Konstantin
Great implementation of solving the access nightmare. Saves a lot of time and hassle. Keep on shipping!
Philip LR
Maker
@khwhahn You sound like you've experienced some of that nightmare yourself? Thanks!
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@khwhahn That's the perfect description actually: "Access Nightmare". With us no more!! Thank you!
Mihri Minaz
It is very handy to fetch all the existing permissions from GSuite and handle them on slack. Otherwise I need to check it every now and then whenever I have a breach paranoia 🙃 Does it notify me on slack when an employee gives access to a 3rd party app?
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@mihriminaz That's indeed an amazing idea! We heard that alerting on these kind of events would help people a lot to keep an eye on what's happening in their organizations, especially interested for CISOs. We plan to launch a feature like that soon!
Oliver Thamm
Definitely gonna make my own SaaS integrate with this. Great idea!
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@oliver_thamm Absolutely. We're happy to help you. Let us know at any time, Oliver. Thank you!
Oliver Thamm
@mathias_n Sure, I'll reach out. Are there docs anywhere yet, eg on what my API endpoint would need to look like so you can grant / revoke access for users?
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@oliver_thamm You could provide a SCIM compliant endpoint. That would be the best in terms of speed. But we're also able to integrate with browser automation.
Oliver Thamm
@mathias_n SCIM looks very interesting and relevant. I think I'll go down that route when the time comes.
David
Have heard highly positive reviews of Access Owl — congrats on the PH launch! :) Starting at what team size is Access Owl a good fit?
Philip LR
Maker
@david_paffenholz Great question, as with many things, it depends ;) Here are a few typical stages we see: For small organizations, starting at 5 employees: You'd probably want to keep the AccessOwl Discovery just running in the background to have a single-source-of-truth to see every app that's in use and help with employee offboarding. For organizations with 20+ employees and ISO27001 or SOC 2 certified: Most companies start out with managing all processes required to stay compliant manually. AccessOwl can automate all of them with easy to implement Slack workflows. For growing organizations with 50-80+ employees: This is usually the breaking point where you'd want to look into a solution such as AccessOwl to automate the user account provisioning and deprovisioning.
Aswin Ramachandran
Happy to see you launch @philip_lr 🚀
Philip LR
Maker
@new_user_097202293fa6a9bd9 Thanks Aswin! Hoping to have my pizza delivered with one of your THEOs at some point in time!
A round of applause for the AccessOwl team! Launching a product that addresses the challenges of SaaS access management is no small feat. I'm wondering if you could share more details about how they identify apps and user accounts in an organization? I'm really interested in learning more about it.
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@ricardo_luz Amazing, Ricardo, thank you! We basically take a deep, deep look into your Google Workspace, check which people signed in, query app invitations and compare that with a curated app data log on our side. We noticed that works very well to really find apps and users account that would be otherwise hidden...
Michael Sieb
Congrats on the launch!
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@michael_sieb Thanks Michaell!
Aike Hillbrands
Fantastic product that the people at AccessOwl are building! We are customers, and it‘s making our compliance access reviews super easy and straightforward. Thanks to that, we were able to reduce the access chaos for our SOC2 and ISO 27001 certification :)
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@aikeh Aike, it's fantastic to have customers like you onboard. Please keep up the continuous feedback so that we can make our beloved 🦉 better and better :-)
Steven Renwick
this is certainly a problem we have encountered. bad for security, but also bad to be paying for apps you don't need! looks like a great product. good luck!
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@major_grooves You nailed it, Steven. Absolutely! Appreciate your support!
Niklas Higi
AccessOwl is a must-have for startups that have to do proper access reviews for ISO/SOC2 but don't have the budget for Enterprise budget solutions like Okta yet! Give it a try and see what kind of unused user accounts you didn't know you still had lying around ;)
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@shroudedcode Well said, Niklas! Appreciate your fantastic support!
Mike Rötgers
Definitely a real pain point once you hit a certain threshold of employees you have to manage. Doing that by hand across tens of systems is annoying and prone to errors.
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@mike_rotgers1 Damn right, Mike. Appreciate your support!!
Sahil Kumar
great problem solving tool! congratulations on the launch.
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@demondoss Thank you, Sahil!
Max T.Pham
Congrats on the AccessOwl 2.0 launch, Philip! A smart and timely solution for a widespread SaaS access issue. Wishing you & your team great success!
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@maxtpham Appreciate your support a lot, Max! Thank you!
Jacob Wilson
GREAT idea! Would cut down on lots of pain and time spent managing access to accounts.
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@jacob_wilson6 Absolutely. Are you experiencing it yourself? How do you handle it at the moment?
Georgios Spithourakis
Congrats on the launch and for giving a breather to security and compliance teams🌟 The Owl puts an end to the offboarding whack-a-mole!
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@geospith Well said, Georgios! Our 🦉 is doing all the hard work for you. Let me know if you have any more product feedback!
Pritika Mehta
Congrats! You are solving a major problem we all face.
Mathias Nestler
Maker
@pritika_mehta Thanks, Pritika. That's so true.
Boris Gordts
Super cool, trying it out in our org
Philip LR
Maker
@bgordts Thanks Boris, let me know if I can support in any way. Would love to hear what you think
Marshall Johnston
I had access to an a company slack for about 6 months after leaving. And the only reason I lost it was because I told them. I can only imagine the security implications of that. This makes so much sense.
Philip LR
Maker
@marshall_johnston Sounds like AccessOwl could be a great fit for that company ;) You would be surprised about how often we hear these stories about forgotten access. The security implications are one problem, another are the tens of thousands of dollars companies are wasting on those orphaned user accounts.
Zheng Hao Tan
Congrats on the launch, AccessOwl team! Really love how y'all are solving this problem - it's hard to even keep track of how many SaaS applications we're using off the top of my head! Honestly, I could see this being super useful even for single digit headcount teams :)
Philip LR
Maker
@zhenghaooo You are right. I recently sat down with Mathias and we were thinking how we can be more useful for smaller teams. And I myself often feel like I'm loosing track of the software and accounts we've been using. Hope to see you try it and let me know what you think!