Rovally Partners with Turngate: Finally, a SIEM That Doesn't Suck for Startups

Last month, a client asked us a simple question: "Can you show me everyone who accessed our Salesforce data in the last 30 days?"

It should have taken five minutes. Instead, it took us three hours to manually pull logs from Salesforce, cross-reference with Okta login events, and piece together a timeline in a spreadsheet.

Three. Hours. For one simple question.

That's the last time we'll have that conversation.

Why We Partnered with Turngate

I've known Bruce Potter, Turngate's founder, for over a decade. I've watched his team build Turngate from the ground up with a singular focus: making security monitoring actually work for companies that don't have dedicated security engineering teams.

After working with Turngate over the past two years, we're now making it official. We're partnering with Turngate to bring lightweight SIEM capabilities to every Rovally client—without the complexity, cost, or implementation headaches of traditional SIEM tools.

Turngate aggregates audit logs from your core SaaS applications into a single, visual interface that actually makes sense. No query languages to learn. No six-month implementation. No dedicated staff required. If you're running a modern SaaS stack—Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, Dropbox, SentinelOne—Turngate sees it all in one place.

The Real Problems This Solves

Security Investigations That Don't Take Forever

Picture this: someone reports suspicious activity from a contractor's account. Without Turngate, you're logging into Okta to export authentication logs, then GitHub to export activity logs, then Google Workspace to export access logs. You open three spreadsheets and start correlating timestamps manually. 2-3 hours later, maybe you have an answer.

With Turngate? Search for the contractor's account. See all their activity across every connected system on one timeline. Spot the anomaly in 10 minutes. This is what we do every week, and investigations that used to take hours now take minutes.

Security Questionnaires You Can Actually Answer

Enterprise prospects love to ask: "Do you have centralized logging and monitoring for your SaaS applications?" Without Turngate, the honest answer is something like "We monitor logs through native platform tools and review them regularly"—which really means you manually check when you remember to.

With Turngate, the answer is straightforward: "Yes, we use Turngate SIEM to aggregate and monitor all SaaS audit logs with automated alerting." You can even show them screenshots if they ask. Enterprise buyers want to see real security tooling, and Turngate gives you something real to show them.

The "What Did This Person Actually Do?" Question

An employee leaves the company. Three weeks later, someone asks what they accessed in their final week. Without Turngate, good luck—those logs are scattered across eight systems, some of which only retain data for 30 days. You might piece together 60% of the picture if you're lucky.

With Turngate, you search by user, set the date range, and see everything they touched across your entire SaaS stack. Complete picture in minutes. This comes up constantly for offboarding reviews, insider risk investigations, and compliance spot checks.

How It Actually Works

Turngate connects to your SaaS applications via read-only API access. No agents to deploy. No infrastructure to manage. No logs to ship anywhere. Once connected, Turngate aggregates audit logs from all your SaaS tools, normalizes them into a consistent format so you're not decoding JSON, visualizes user activity and system events on intuitive dashboards, alerts you to suspicious patterns and policy violations, and retains everything for compliance requirements.

Most importantly: it's actually usable without specialized training. If you can use a web application, you can investigate with Turngate.

What This Means for Compliance

Modern compliance frameworks—SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC and beyond (not to mention good 'ol fashioned security sense)—all require evidence of security monitoring and log retention. Auditors want to see centralized log collection, regular log review, incident detection capabilities, and evidence retention. Turngate checks all these boxes.

But here's what really matters: when your auditor asks "How did you detect this?" or "Show me the evidence," you'll have actual, timestamped records from a real monitoring system. Not a spreadsheet. Not a manual process. Actual evidence.

Implementation

This is managed by Rovally. You're not suddenly becoming a SIEM administrator. Week 1, we connect Turngate to your SaaS applications. Week 2, we configure alerting based on your risk profile. Week 3, you have full visibility. From there, we handle monitoring, investigation, and evidence collection. You get the benefits without the operational overhead.

Questions about Turngate?

Email us at hello@rovally.com.

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Let's talk about transforming your security program—now with actual SIEM capabilities that don't require a security engineering team to operate.