Yeep: Access management made easy
On-premise software is becoming a rarity. Gone are the days when companies would buy a software to install it on a server in the basement. Today, everything is subscription-based — what is commonly known as SaaS — from your email server to your file storage and CRM.
From the customer’s perspective SaaS is 1–2–3 easy: (1) sign-up, (2) add credit card, (3) use the software. From the vendor’s perspective subscriptions provide a predictable source of income, which is much preferable than one-off purchases. It’s a win-win situation. Except when it’s not.
After your company has reached a certain number of software subscriptions, access management becomes a security and efficiency issue. The bigger the company the larger the problem.
1. You don’t know where your employees have access to
Consider Bob, the young software developer you hired last month. If I ask you today “where does Bob have access to”, would you know?
Surely, password managers (e.g. Passpack, Dashlane) and identity providers (e.g. Okta, OneLogin) can help. They tell you which SaaS an employee has access to. But they don’t tell you where your employees have access within that SaaS (e.g. “contracts” folder in Dropbox) and what kind of access they have (e.g. read, write, admin). The devil is in the details.
For instance, Bob has access to GDrive. Within GDrive your have (1) client contracts, (2) company team photos and (3) various analytics spreadsheets. It might be cool for Bob to access the team photos, but it’s definitely not cool for him to access client contracts. Furthermore, you would want to give him read-only access to the analytics spreadsheet.
You could always manage permissions through GDrive, but when you have hundreds of SaaS subscriptions how feasible is it to go through every service and update permissions for each employee? Can you keep track of the ongoing changes? Your organization isn’t stale; people come and go, projects and responsibilities change.
Needless to say this is a major security issue.
2. Managing permissions takes too much time and effort
How often do enquiries of the following type circulate within your company: “I don’t have access to that Google spreadsheet” or “I need access to X repo on GitHub”?
When an employee requests access to a resource, they want it ASAP. Otherwise, permission management gets on their way, hurting productivity.
Who decides if an access request is accepted or rejected? Assign this task to one person and they get overwhelmed. Assign the same task to multiple persons and access management becomes a mess.
You need a way to channel and organize access requests. This is a typical efficiency issue.
The solution to your SaaS problems
Introducing Yeep, a web platform that solves the aforementioned problems and more. Yeep is a single focal point for managing user access to all your SaaS and editing user permissions.
How does it work? Simple.
- Signup (currently accepting early beta requests);
- Connect your SaaS via OAuth or API key;
- Yeep imports your users, resources and their in-between relations and presents you with an automatically generated access matrix;
- Drill down to each employee and see where exactly they have access to (e.g. which Dropbox folders) and how (e.g. read, write, admin).
Make a change outside Yeep and your access matrix will automatically update in a few minutes. The system will notify you accordingly for any permission changes, so you are always up to date.
Where do you sign up?
Visit www.yeep.io or drop us an email at hello@yeep.io and we’ll get in touch to set up a trial.
