FAQs

Oblique is a self-service IGA solution that keeps access controls up to date from your HRIS to your IdP. Oblique provides team-based permissions with built-in justifications to understand why someone has access, previews to verify impact and safely apply changes, and user-facing workflows to let employees resolve issues without creating IT tickets.

Yes. Oblique includes several IGA capabilities like access requests, automated access provisioning, and audit logs of access changes — but we're focused specifically on making access controls maintainable and self-serve. Oblique doesn't currently support compliance-focused IGA workflows like user access reviews.

No. Oblique works with your existing identity provider (like Okta or Google) to manage groups and entitlements in a centralized, self-serve way. We don't replace your IdP or require changes to your authentication setup.

IT teams at mid-market organizations with 750 to 5,000 employees, who are overwhelmed by access request tickets. Typically, these organizations are using Okta as their identity provider and Workday as their HRIS.

Oblique manages both attribute-based groups, like "all engineers in San Francisco", and team-based groups, like "Project Alpha team". We find that these cross-functional teams aren't well expressed in access controls today, and are where the majority of manual access changes come from. Oblique syncs groups and effective access to your existing systems, including Okta groups, Google Groups, and your internal applications.

Most managers keep their teams up to date because it makes it easier to just get work done — and they find it takes less time than approving the access requests they'd otherwise receive. We've found that regular team reviews are a great way to keep teams up to date.

Oblique pulls employee data from your HRIS and pushes group membership updates to your identity provider and other systems. We integrate via standard APIs — no custom development required. Learn more about how Oblique works.

No, Oblique works with your existing identity provider. We don't replace your IdP or require changes to your authentication setup. Groups created in Oblique are pushed to your IdP, where authentication and enforcement continue to work as they do today. We make the underlying groups and entitlements more manageable.

Oblique helps you scale access management and make it more maintainable. Defining access controls based on teams makes access more understandable. Previewing access changes helps you understand the impact of changes and catch issues before they happen. Empowering teams to self-govern access means that they get the right access more quickly, while still being within your guardrails. All of this helps reduce the volume of access request tickets IT gets, without sacrificing security.

Manual access management breaks down as you grow. IT gets buried in tickets, users wait days for access, and permissions become an unmaintainable mess of exceptions and workarounds. Oblique lets you scale by empowering teams to self-serve within security guardrails you control.

Access management seems straightforward until you need to handle group hierarchies, manage policy exceptions, hit sync issues — and to build a UI for end users. What starts as a simple app becomes ongoing maintenance and integration work. We built Oblique because we saw IT teams at multiple companies solving the same problems again and again. Let us handle the complexity, so that your already busy IT team can get back to everything else.

Yes. When you first deploy Oblique, we recommend you run it in a read-only mode, so that you can better understand your existing access controls and data quality without making any changes. Then, you can make changes at a per resource level, to gradually roll out Oblique to your entire organization. And, Oblique works with multiple simultaneous identity providers, so you can try it out in a test instance before deploying to production.

Book a demo to learn more about Oblique and see if it meets your needs. If it looks promising, we'll run a proof-of-concept with your team so you can see how it works in practice.

All customers get direct access to our team via shared Slack channels, weekly check-ins during onboarding, and of course email support. We're a small team focused on making sure every customer succeeds. Need help right now? Email us at support@oblique.security.

Not currently, but we're always looking for talented people. If you're interested in joining our team, say hello at jobs@oblique.security.