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.

Security leads or teams at startup organizations with 25-100 employees, who are using Google or Okta as their identity provider. These organizations need visibility into true access in their environment, help managing user onboarding and offboarding, responding to access requests, and completing access reviews for compliance.

Yes, Oblique is an IGA. It and has several IGA capabilities including access requests, access reviews, automated access provisioning, and audit logs of access changes. Oblique’s goal is to make access controls maintainable and self-serve.

Yes. Oblique lets users request access for themselves or for others, and to request to join groups. Access requests can notify users in Slack, and be approved directly in Slack or in Oblique. These create an audit trail of access changes over time.

Yes. Oblique lets you complete user access reviews by centralizing information about what access someone has in your environment. This is done by pulling information from both your identity provider and from direct integrations, so you can get true access in each application. You can review access by app or by user, approve access, or track remediation actions to change or remove access.

Yes, but we don't recommend it. Just-in-time access needs to be instant — when you need prod access, it's an emergency. Oblique relies on your IdP to make changes, which can take tens of minutes. For true just-in-time access, make changes directly to your production environment. Oblique has expiring entitlements that work great for temporary access that doesn't need to be immediate.

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.

Yes. Oblique has logs of access requests and access changes over time, which show how a user’s access, or access to an application, changed and why. User access reviews provide decisions at the account level for approving, changing, or revoking access. These can both be provided as evidence to your auditors.

Oblique pulls employee data from your HRIS and pushes group membership updates to your identity provider (like Okta or Google) and other applications directly. We integrate via standard APIs.

Oblique has direct integrations with identity providers (Okta, Google) to pull information about your users and their expected apps, as well as direct integrations for individual applications in your environment. For apps in user access reviews where a direct integration doesn’t exist, you can also provide Oblique with application user lists or screenshots.

No, Oblique works with your existing identity provider, like Google or Okta. 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.

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.

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.

Oblique is designed for modern organizations with cross-functional teams, allowing you to define access based on how teams actually work. Oblique is a self-serve IGA, enabling users to request access changes while empowering managers and teams to govern themselves. This approach reduces the day-to-day management burden on IT and moves access control closer to the business, where there's more context. Oblique still gives IT and security teams the visibility and context they need to easily understand who has access and to complete user access reviews quickly and comprehensively.

Unlike other IGA solutions, Oblique makes access explainable, changes safe, and delegates authority to the business. Team-based access controls are easier to understand and manage. Change previews help you catch issues before they impact users. And self-governing teams get access faster, while staying within your guardrails.

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.

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.