Account Setup
This guide covers creating your Detectify account, configuring authentication, and inviting team members.
Creating Your Account
- Go to the Detectify signup page and enter your business email address.
- Verify your email by clicking the confirmation link sent to your inbox.
- Complete your profile by providing your organization name and basic details.
- You now have the Admin role in your new team, which gives you full administrative privileges.
Authentication Options
Email and Password
By default, all users sign in with their email and password. We strongly recommend enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) for all accounts. You can enable 2FA from Settings > Security.
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Detectify supports SAML 2.0-based SSO, allowing your team to authenticate through your organization’s identity provider. To configure SSO:
- Navigate to Settings > Authentication > SSO.
- Enter your identity provider’s metadata URL or upload the metadata XML file.
- Configure the SAML attribute mappings for email and display name.
- Test the connection to verify that authentication works correctly.
- Optionally, enforce SSO so that all users in your organization must sign in through your identity provider.
SSO is available on Enterprise plans. Contact your account representative to enable it.
Inviting Team Members
To invite colleagues to your Detectify account:
- Click your team name at the top of the left sidebar to open the account menu, then select Organization.
- On the Members tab, click Invite members.
- Choose the role to assign, then enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite.
- Click Invite members. Each invitee receives an email with a link to join your team.
You can invite several people at once, but everyone in a single invite receives the same role. Send one invite per role if you are adding people with different levels of access.
Roles and Permissions
Detectify uses role-based access control (RBAC) to manage what each team member can do. There are three roles:
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Admin | Full control over the team’s settings, including members, assets, Surface Monitoring, scan profiles, and billing. |
| Editor | Can add, remove, and configure assets and scan profiles, and access all security reports for the team’s assets. Cannot manage members or billing. |
| Viewer | Can only view security reports for the team’s assets. Cannot change any configuration. |
Roles are assigned per team, so the same person can hold different roles in different teams. See Users and Roles for the full breakdown.
Multi-Team Support
For organizations that need to separate assets and findings across departments or business units, Detectify supports multi-team environments. Each team operates with its own set of assets, scan configurations, and findings while sharing a single billing account.
Teams cannot be created from inside the product — you can only create a team before you are signed in to one. To set up a multi-team environment, contact Detectify support at support@detectify.com.
Once your teams exist, click your team name at the top of the left sidebar to open the account menu, then use Switch team to move between them. Each team’s members and their roles are managed separately from the Organization page for the team you are currently signed in to.
Team members can belong to multiple teams with different roles in each. Assets and findings are scoped to their respective teams, so each group only sees what is relevant to them.
Next Steps
Once your account is set up and your team is in place, proceed to add your assets so you can begin scanning.