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Ask HN: How are you handling the identity sprawl in your company/startup?

2•awaisras•41m ago
A founder I know had to let an engineer go last month. After few days; the core database gone. Thankfully, they recovered from a backup.

The fired engineer had an SSH key which no one knew about; hence no one revoked it. They had a leading IdP/SSO solution, but that solution wasn't connected to their db.

This got me thinking; at early stage, who is actually keeping track of all the keys, tokens, and credentials floating around? There's no IT, no security team, just founders and engineers barely taking care of their own tasks.

To every early stage founders, how are you tackling this today?

Comments

overdrive_1•32m ago
We get lost in the configuration and feels like we spend more time configuring than doing our actual tasks.Have okta but that is only limited to Saas apps. For infra couldn’t find anything useful and easy to use.
awaisras•24m ago
Surprisingly the founder also had a similar issue, said they barely had enough time to go through the configuration guides, and the engineers he had were focusing too much on the core product and its auth, that they could not handle the internal workflows.

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