Identity & access management
IAM for teams that already have SSO
Identity and access management covers two different jobs that often get lumped together: controlling how people log in, and governing what they can reach once they’re in. Most teams under 200 already solve the first with an SSO provider. The gap — and where audit findings come from — is the second. Useboards is the governance layer that sits on top of your existing identity provider, not a rip-and-replace enterprise IAM suite.
Two halves of IAM: authentication and governance
Authentication answers “is this really you?” — SSO, MFA, passkeys. Governance answers “should you have this access, is it still needed, and can you prove it?” — requests, approvals, reviews, and deprovisioning. Your identity provider is excellent at the first and largely silent on the second. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 findings cluster in the governance half: stale access, missing offboarding, unapproved grants. That’s the half a small team most often has no dedicated tooling for.
Authentication Useboards handles at the door
Useboards secures its own login with the mechanisms you already expect, so it fits cleanly alongside your identity provider rather than duplicating it:
- Microsoft Entra OIDC and SAML 2.0 (Okta, JumpCloud, Google Workspace, Auth0, and generic providers) — login stays with your IdP.
- WebAuthn passkeys and TOTP two-factor for accounts that sign in directly.
- MFA enforcement configurable per role, so privileged roles carry stronger requirements.
- Discover-and-import SSO groups — only groups you explicitly import mirror as Useboards groups that grant access.
The governance layer on top
This is where Useboards earns its place. Every system, vendor, and resource lives in one catalog with named owners and defined access levels. Access is requested through configurable multi-step approval flows instead of a Slack DM; user access reviews confirm access is still appropriate against an immutable snapshot; onboarding and offboarding fan out grants and revocations; and every action lands in an append-only, tenant-isolated audit log. That’s the oversight your SSO doesn’t provide.
Not a full enterprise IAM suite — on purpose
Enterprise IGA platforms bundle heavyweight identity administration, automated provisioning connectors, and access governance into a six-figure, multi-quarter rollout aimed at large organizations with dedicated IAM teams. If that’s not you, most of it is scope you’ll never use. Useboards keeps its lane deliberately narrow: the governance layer that makes your existing SSO auditable, set up in an afternoon and priced for a team under 200.
Frequently asked questions
Is Useboards an identity provider?
No. Your identity provider (Entra, Okta, Google Workspace, JumpCloud) still authenticates users. Useboards is the governance layer on top — it federates login via OIDC or SAML and focuses on who should have access to what, whether it’s still needed, and the audit evidence for it.
Do we still need access governance if we have SSO and MFA?
Yes. SSO and MFA control how people log in; they don’t decide who should have access to each system, review it periodically, or produce audit evidence. Most SOC 2 and ISO 27001 findings are about governance — reviews, offboarding, approvals — not authentication.
How is this different from enterprise IAM/IGA platforms?
Enterprise IGA suites are broad, connector-heavy platforms built for large organizations with dedicated IAM teams and long implementations. Useboards intentionally covers only the governance layer — requests, reviews, onboarding/offboarding, audit — on top of the SSO you already run, set up in an afternoon.
Which SSO and MFA methods are supported?
Microsoft Entra OIDC and SAML 2.0 (Okta, JumpCloud, Google Workspace, Auth0, generic), plus WebAuthn passkeys and TOTP two-factor for direct sign-in. MFA can be enforced per role so privileged roles carry stronger requirements.
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Add governance to the SSO you already run
Requests, reviews, offboarding, and audit evidence — on top of your identity provider.