tenfold CE: Our free Identity Governance tool just got 2 new features

tenfold’s Community Edition gives organizations under 150 users full access to our IGA solution. With recent updates, CE users now benefit from even more free features, including access reviews for shared content and centralized event auditing.

As IT environments become more fragmented and complex, ensuring that your workforce has access to the resources they need – and nothing else – presents a growing challenge. This makes Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) a must-have capability for organizations that want to provide seamless access to staff, suppliers and guests while protecting mission-critical data.

Once organizations grow beyond a few dozen users, they start to feel the pain of manual governance: onboarding delays, overprivileged users, stale accounts, no visibility into who has access to what. The lack of control not only slows down IT operations, but is a huge risk factor for data leaks and breaches.

Free, full-featured IGA for small organizations

However, even businesses that have outgrown manual governance often struggle to find a suitable solution at their scale. Most IGA products are aimed at sprawling enterprise environments. This makes them prohibitively expensive and nearly impossible to operate for smaller IT teams. The barrier to entry for dedicated IGA platforms is simply too high, leaving many organizations in an awkward middle ground between automated governance and manual administration.

To bridge this gap and make Identity Governance accessible to all organizations regardless of size, tenfold was built from the ground up to make IGA easy to set up, manage and maintain. It achieves this through its no-code approach to configuration and a wide range of out-of-the-box plugins.

As part of this commitment to make IGA accessible to everyone, tenfold offers a free Community Edition for organizations with under 150 managed users (including admin and service accounts). The Community Edition includes all features and integrations of our highest licensing tier and has no usage limits besides the user cap. It can be requested through our website.

Before you dive in, however, here are three things you should know about the tenfold Community Edition that truly make it stand out.

• Quick setup: A streamlined setup wizard and built-in integrations for Active Directory and Entra ID make it easy to connect tenfold to your identity stack. We also provide video tutorials to walk you through your first steps with the Community Edition.
• Feature parity: Our Community Edition receives updates and new features at the same time as our paid tiers. There are no delayed releases or premium-only features. You get the full tenfold experience.
• Helpful peers: If you run into a question or are wondering how to get the most out of a feature, jump into our official Community Edition subreddit to get support from fellow CE users or even members of the tenfold team.

With all that out of the way, let’s look at what’s new in the Community Edition.

New feature #1: Shared content governance

Shared content in Microsoft 365 is a security blind spot for many organizations and native governance tools are not granular enough. It can be challenging to even figure out what your users are sharing, let alone audit shared access.

tenfold’s shared content governance solves this issue through two main features:

• An overview of all shared files across Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. This central breakdown gives you visibility into everything your users are sharing, whether it lives in SharePoint sites, Teams channels, one-on-one chats or is shared from users’ OneDrives.
• Recurring access reviews for shared files that prompt file, channel or site owners to review who has access to content they have shared in the past. Each reviewer receives a link to a personalized dashboard with a checklist of every in-scope item they have shared with another user, allowing them to quickly confirm or revoke shared access.

With these guardrails, organizations can make full use of sharing features in M365 while maintaining control over who has access to shared data. Prevent oversharing and lingering cloud access – stay secure in the cloud.

New feature #2: Event auditing

To protect themselves from modern identity threats, organizations can no longer rely on governance and passive risk reduction alone. They need real-time event data to detect and stop threats as they happen.

With its event auditing feature, tenfold pairs Identity Governance with real-time log analysis. This provides essential context supplementing your governance framework, allowing you to:

• Ingest and analyze event log data
• Record event types of your choice in tenfold’s database
• Filter event data by user, system or event type
• Save and share queries to quickly access specific searches
• Quickly identify suspicious activity such as login spikes or newly created admin accounts

With up-to-the-minute data on identity events, you can respond to threats as they emerge and respond before they can escalate further.

Sponsored and written by tenfold Software.