AccessOwl
Managing your Employees' Access to SaaS
AccessOwl automates employee SaaS account provisioning and permissioning for any tool. IT teams from companies like Zeplin and Sary save 30 minutes on every request. Access management used to be an enterprise problem. With work from home, exploding SaaS usage and the need for SOC2 certifications startups have the same problems as enterprises. Mathias and Philip have built several startups and teams before and experienced the same problems around access management over and over again. Philip was the CEO and Co-Founder of blik, an award winning IoT solution that was used by Volkswagen and BMW. Mathias built the leading private payment infrastructure provider in Germany as well as the first digital car insurance as Co-Founder and CTO. Based on these experiences we decided to build a solution we wish we could have used when building our former companies. AccessOwl can be deployed within minutes instead of weeks by simply installing a Slack application. We save companies that use AccessOwl 30 minutes for every access request, on- and offboarding.
Active Founders
Philip Eller
As CEO and Co-Founder of blik I sold thousands of IoT devices to BMW and Volkswagen before building out new business units for Compado (Ad-Tech). Scaling from 0-1.8M in profits selling within a single year. AccessOwl is solving the problems we had ourselves when scaling business in the past.
Mathias Nestler
Mathias Nestler is the co-founder and CTO of AccessOwl. He is a Forbes 30 under 30 Entrepreneur and CTO with 10+ years of experience in Technology. Former CTO & Co-Founder of FRIDAY.de (InsurTech). Former CTO of viafintech.com (FinTech). Loves to work on great products.
Company Launches
Losing track of who has access to which apps is a nightmare. In Mathias Nestler and my previous roles as CTO, COO, and CEO, the problem usually came up in one of three ways:
- Missed Employee Offboardings: If I don’t know which apps the employee used, it’s impossible to fully offboard them. There’s nothing worse than finding out an employee who left for your competition still has access to company data.
- Failing Compliance: The first question an auditor will ask is what systems you use. Knowing where your company data lives is at the core of any audit.
- Unwanted Costs: It sucks to find out that you pay for multiple apps that essentially do the same. You can only keep your team accountable if you know what they use.
In the world of IT administration this challenge is called ‘Shadow IT' - apps you are not aware being used by your team.
Historically, the only options have been to repeatedly ask employees to fill out a Gsheet with any apps they remember using or to manually search through Google Workspace OAuth logs.
Here’s a better option: Uncover all SaaS apps and their users in a single click!
The Shadow IT scanner will find any SaaS app your employees use in combination with Google or Microsoft sign-in.
FAQ
Why do you offer this for free?
Knowing who has access to what should be the standard for all of us. We want to bring attention to the need to manage your access proactively, which is why we decided to offer a part of our product for free.
How does it work?
AccessOwl reads your organization’s OAuth logs and matches them with our SaaS database. As a result, you’ll see which apps have been used and by whom.
What if a user signed up with email/password and didn’t use ‘Sign in with Google/Microsoft’?
This feature is not currently part of the free scan. However, our core product offers advanced Shadow IT detection, which includes checking for invitation emails.
Is this safe to use?
Yes, reading OAuth logs is common practice for SaaS management vendors. The data is only extracted when you actively request a scan. AccessOwl is SOC 2 Type II audited and GDPR compliant.
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Surprised by the results? Book a free 1:1 consultation with one of the AccessOwl founders to learn about best practices for keeping track of user access!