Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access to internal systems

Posted by aren on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @01:54PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/29/y-combinator-backed-foxpass-helps-small-companies-manage-employee-access-to-internal-systems/

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by aren on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:09PM (#9970465)

Foxpass started here as a "Show HN" back in February (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039027) and now we're part of the current batch.

Would love your feedback and of course I'm happy to answer any questions!

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by rubiquity on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:07PM (#9971229)

You and your team must be saints. This is arguably one of the most boring and monotonous problems to solve. Good luck!

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by skuhn on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:53PM (#9971497)

Every technical problem is boring and monotonous to somebody, the trick is to find someone who can get interested in it and pay them to deal with it.

With any luck I'll be paying Foxpass to solve this one for me in the near future.

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by aren on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:24PM (#9971320)

But oh-so-important!

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by andrewjb on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:42PM (#9970701)

Looks like it would save a lot of headaches. Any plans to integrate with other options for authentication outside of Google Apps?

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by aren on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:45PM (#9970734)

Yep! Foxpass already integrates with SSO providers like Okta and OneLogin, and soon we'll add support for Office 365.

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by lchengify on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:35PM (#9971732)

Currently we're using JumpCloud, prior to that we used OneLogin before they had a ton of outages.

Would love to switch to you guys, since integrating with Google Apps as an LDAP/RADIUS server is our one-and-only use case.

Question: Do you guys guarantee encryption-at-rest for key storage? What about 3rd party master encryption keys?

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by aren on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:58PM (#9971855)

We'd love to have you as a customer! We don't store any plaintext secrets. Passwords are bcrypted and public keys can safely be public. If I misunderstood your question or if you want a more in-depth answer, please drop me a line: aren@.

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by jcjames on Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:03PM (#9975907)

At JumpCloud, we do guarantee encryption-at-rest for key storage, we use PBKDF2 for hashing. Can I ask what you're looking for that JumpCloud doesn't offer? Google Apps and LDAP/RADIUS are right up our alley!

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by welder on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:12PM (#9970894)

This is similar to https://www.meldium.com/, a team password manager that helps with user permission management. It's a problem I've been waiting for someone to successfully solve. Good luck!

P.S. Showed this to another YC startup and they want to try it.

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by justizin on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:15PM (#9971937)

I worked at OneLogin and always lamented that we didn't care about managing engineering-level access at all, esp since that was actually my job at OneLogin. Definitely impressed with some of what I see.

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Re:Foxpass (YC S15) helps companies manage employee access t... by ismail on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:13PM (#9970897)

Nicely done guys for spotting the schelp blindness. I have been at many large enterprises where due to the pain of manging passwords everyone uses the exact same pass.

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