Free Identity Governance for Small Organizations: tenfold Community Edition Adds Shared Access Reviews and Event Auditing

tenfold Community Edition provides organizations with fewer than 150 managed users—including administrator and service accounts—with full access to its identity governance and administration (IGA) solution. Recent updates add even more free capabilities, including shared content access reviews and centralized event auditing.

As IT environments become more fragmented and complex, ensuring that employees have appropriate access to the resources they need is an increasing challenge. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) helps organizations protect mission-critical data while providing seamless access to employees, suppliers, and guests.

As an organization grows beyond a few dozen users, manual identity governance can lead to slow onboarding, excessive privileges, stale accounts, and limited visibility into who can access what. This lack of control can slow IT operations and increase the risk of data leaks and breaches.

Full-featured IGA for small organizations

Organizations that have outgrown manual governance often struggle to find a solution suited to their size. Many IGA platforms are designed for large enterprises, making them expensive and difficult for small IT teams to operate. This leaves smaller organizations caught between manual management and enterprise-grade automation.

tenfold was built to make identity governance easier to set up, manage, and maintain for organizations of all sizes. The platform uses a no-code configuration approach and includes a wide range of ready-to-use plugins.

As part of its commitment to accessible identity governance, tenfold offers a free Community Edition for organizations with fewer than 150 managed users, including administrator and service accounts. Community Edition includes the features and integrations of the top license tier, with no usage restrictions other than the user cap. Request Community Edition through the tenfold website.

Three reasons to try tenfold Community Edition

• Quick setup: A streamlined setup wizard and built-in Active Directory and Entra ID integrations make it easy to connect tenfold to your identity stack. A video tutorial explains the first steps with Community Edition.
• Functional equivalence: Community Edition receives updates and new features at the same time as the paid tier. There are no release delays or premium-only features.
• Helpful community resources: Visit the official website for information about using the platform and join the tenfold Community Edition subreddit to connect with other CE users and members of the tenfold team.

Here are the latest capabilities now available in Community Edition.

New feature: Shared content governance for Microsoft 365

Shared content in Microsoft 365 can create a security blind spot for organizations. Native governance tools may not provide enough granularity, making it difficult to understand what users are sharing or audit who has access.

tenfold’s shared content governance addresses this challenge with two key capabilities:

• Centralized visibility: Get an overview of shared files across Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. The breakdown includes content shared through SharePoint sites, Teams channels, 1:1 chats, and users’ OneDrive accounts.
• Regular access reviews: File, channel, and site owners can review who has access to content they previously shared. Each reviewer receives a link to a personalized dashboard with a checklist of shared items in scope, making it easy to confirm or revoke access.

These controls help organizations use Microsoft 365 sharing capabilities while maintaining oversight of access to shared data. Regular reviews can help prevent oversharing and residual cloud access.

New feature: Event auditing for identity activity

Modern identity threats require more than governance and passive risk mitigation. Organizations also need current event data to detect and respond to suspicious activity as it happens.

tenfold combines identity governance with real-time log analysis through its event auditing capabilities. This adds context to an organization’s governance framework and enables teams to:

• Ingest and analyze event log data.
• Log selected event types to tenfold’s database.
• Filter event data by user, system, or event type.
• Save and share queries for quick access to specific searches.
• Identify suspicious activity, such as spikes in logins or newly created administrator accounts.

With up-to-date information about identity events, organizations can respond to emerging threats before they spread further.

Sponsored and written by tenfold software.