Breakglass Access

Executive Summary

Opal has introduced a new way for admins to pre-approve access for emergencies. Once approved, users can generate temporary 12 hour sessions that are fully audited.

Context

We get it - emergencies happen. During these times, access must be granted quickly and logged appropriately. Any friction in the process will just delay already stressful situations.

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Currently, organizations are trusting Opal to define processes to set up break glass access in two ways:

1. On-call integration: Opal integrates with on-call providers, such as PagerDuty and Opsgenie to automatically escalate privileged access based on on-call schedules.

2. Auto-approvals: With Opal's linked Slack channel and auto-approvals, all employees' access will be granted quickly and documented in both a Slack channel and event logs.

Feature Release

With this new release, Opal is now introducing a new break-glass feature for groups - Break Glass Users. This allows admins to manually pre-approve access and give the ability to start a temporary 12 hour session. After an user is marked as break-glass user, they have the ability to get temporary access and all of their activity will be logged.

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About Opal:

Opal is the centralized authorization platform for IT and Infrastructure teams. Deeply integrated with developer infrastructure, SaaS applications, and custom internal tools, Opal enables companies to implement scalable access management.

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