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FROM OUR Customers:

“As agentic AI progresses further and there is more demand from the business to grant significant autonomy to agents, agents will need to be more and more treated as identities.
It will become important to visualize the data and functions agents handle and to be able to deploy circuit breakers, as well as enforce least agency, identify misalignment and to be able to isolate and handle rogue agents. We’re planning to look at the potential to extend the identity security paradigms we’ve built out in Opal for humans to LLM agents as needs arise here.”
Jason Fernandes
VP of Security & Privacy
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"With Opal, we were able to transition quickly to a self-service access model that supports both JIT and Just-Enough-Access (JEA).
This shift not only streamlined our provisioning workflows but also empowered teams with the right level of access, exactly when needed. Once our access data was centralized in Opal, generating user access reviews became effortless.
Opal has allowed us to scale securely and efficiently — transforming what used to be a time-consuming, error-prone process into an automated, auditable, and compliant system.”
Sharon Aby
Senior Manager of IAM, Databricks
view customer story
"Opal helps Elastic protect more of our attack surface than we could before with a small but mighty team. Whether we're speeding up workflows with Slack, orchestrating authorization directly from Terraform, or using the API, Opal has helped us do more with less. In the near future, we're excited to implement Just-in-Time (JIT) access for all of our employees who use GitHub, as well as begin to secure LLMs, service accounts, and other NHIs with Opal."
Mandy Andress
CISO, Elastic
"Opal's Access Review module allows us to provide internal and external auditors with the evidence required for multiple compliances, and provides our Privileged Access Reviewers with the necessary information to make meaningful access decisions. Opal's ability to self-host their solution also allows us to host in our own FedRAMP High environment, thus allowing us to utilize all of their capabilities to harden our FedRAMP resources."
Jack Zaldivar, Jr.
Staff Systems Engineer, Databricks
view customer story
"At Grammarly, Opal enabled us to migrate all access management for over 150 corporate applications and hundreds of production services across two public clouds to a unified employee experience in just a few weeks."
Suha Can
CISO, Grammarly
view customer story
"Opal has improved everybody’s user experience when it comes to access provisioning and access reviews. Not only has it sped up the process significantly for our end users, but it’s also easier for them to have that catalog of what they can get access to.”
Chris Kennington
Security Architect, Obsidian
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“Access reviews and access management were a tedious time sink for us at Obsidian before we adopted Opal. But unlike a lot of other security products, Opal is one of those rare products that gives us back time to focus on what matters, which is amazing.”
Alfredo Hickman
CISO, Obsidian
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"Opal fills the sweet spot of being a developer-friendly tool that we can drive solely through APIs and the Terraform provider, while giving us the features we need."
Guy Davies
Principal Cloud Architect, SOPHOS
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"Implementing Opal was really straightforward. It tracks access logs in one place automatically, so we have peace of mind we're storing everything we need for upcoming audits."
Jim Walnum
DevOps, Coinlist
view customer story
"As Merge continues to scale, it's important our security scales with it. By partnering with Opal, we don't have to worry about access controls anymore. We can focus on our mission to reshape the way businesses integrate."
Gil Feig
CTO, Merge
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FROM OUR Customers:

“As agentic AI progresses further and there is more demand from the business to grant significant autonomy to agents, agents will need to be more and more treated as identities.
It will become important to visualize the data and functions agents handle and to be able to deploy circuit breakers, as well as enforce least agency, identify misalignment and to be able to isolate and handle rogue agents. We’re planning to look at the potential to extend the identity security paradigms we’ve built out in Opal for humans to LLM agents as needs arise here.”
Jason Fernandes
VP of Security & Privacy
view customer story
"With Opal, we were able to transition quickly to a self-service access model that supports both JIT and Just-Enough-Access (JEA).
This shift not only streamlined our provisioning workflows but also empowered teams with the right level of access, exactly when needed. Once our access data was centralized in Opal, generating user access reviews became effortless.
Opal has allowed us to scale securely and efficiently — transforming what used to be a time-consuming, error-prone process into an automated, auditable, and compliant system.”
Sharon Aby
Senior Manager of IAM, Databricks
view customer story
"Opal helps Elastic protect more of our attack surface than we could before with a small but mighty team. Whether we're speeding up workflows with Slack, orchestrating authorization directly from Terraform, or using the API, Opal has helped us do more with less. In the near future, we're excited to implement Just-in-Time (JIT) access for all of our employees who use GitHub, as well as begin to secure LLMs, service accounts, and other NHIs with Opal."
Mandy Andress
CISO, Elastic
"Opal's Access Review module allows us to provide internal and external auditors with the evidence required for multiple compliances, and provides our Privileged Access Reviewers with the necessary information to make meaningful access decisions. Opal's ability to self-host their solution also allows us to host in our own FedRAMP High environment, thus allowing us to utilize all of their capabilities to harden our FedRAMP resources."
Jack Zaldivar, Jr.
Staff Systems Engineer, Databricks
view customer story
"At Grammarly, Opal enabled us to migrate all access management for over 150 corporate applications and hundreds of production services across two public clouds to a unified employee experience in just a few weeks."
Suha Can
CISO, Grammarly
view customer story
"Opal has improved everybody’s user experience when it comes to access provisioning and access reviews. Not only has it sped up the process significantly for our end users, but it’s also easier for them to have that catalog of what they can get access to.”
Chris Kennington
Security Architect, Obsidian
view customer story
“Access reviews and access management were a tedious time sink for us at Obsidian before we adopted Opal. But unlike a lot of other security products, Opal is one of those rare products that gives us back time to focus on what matters, which is amazing.”
Alfredo Hickman
CISO, Obsidian
view customer story
"Opal fills the sweet spot of being a developer-friendly tool that we can drive solely through APIs and the Terraform provider, while giving us the features we need."
Guy Davies
Principal Cloud Architect, SOPHOS
view customer story
"Implementing Opal was really straightforward. It tracks access logs in one place automatically, so we have peace of mind we're storing everything we need for upcoming audits."
Jim Walnum
DevOps, Coinlist
view customer story
"As Merge continues to scale, it's important our security scales with it. By partnering with Opal, we don't have to worry about access controls anymore. We can focus on our mission to reshape the way businesses integrate."
Gil Feig
CTO, Merge
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How Opal Streamlines Identity Lifecycle Management

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"With Opal, we were able to transition quickly to a self-service access model that supports both JIT and Just-Enough-Access (JEA).

This shift not only streamlined our provisioning workflows but also empowered teams with the right level of access, exactly when needed. Once our access data was centralized in Opal, generating user access reviews became effortless.

Opal has allowed us to scale securely and efficiently — transforming what used to be a time-consuming, error-prone process into an automated, auditable, and compliant system.”

"At Grammarly, Opal enabled us to migrate all access management for over 150 corporate applications and hundreds of production services across two public clouds to a unified employee experience in just a few weeks."

"Opal has improved everybody’s user experience when it comes to access provisioning and access reviews. Not only has it sped up the process significantly for our end users, but it’s also easier for them to have that catalog of what they can get access to.”

“Access reviews and access management were a tedious time sink for us at Obsidian before we adopted Opal. But unlike a lot of other security products, Opal is one of those rare products that gives us back time to focus on what matters, which is amazing.”

"Opal fills the sweet spot of being a developer-friendly tool that we can drive solely through APIs and the Terraform provider, while giving us the features we need."

"Implementing Opal was really straightforward. It tracks access logs in one place automatically, so we have peace of mind we're storing everything we need for upcoming audits."

"As Merge continues to scale, it's important our security scales with it. By partnering with Opal, we don't have to worry about access controls anymore. We can focus on our mission to reshape the way businesses integrate."

"With Opal, we were able to transition quickly to a self-service access model that supports both JIT and Just-Enough-Access (JEA).

This shift not only streamlined our provisioning workflows but also empowered teams with the right level of access, exactly when needed. Once our access data was centralized in Opal, generating user access reviews became effortless.

Opal has allowed us to scale securely and efficiently — transforming what used to be a time-consuming, error-prone process into an automated, auditable, and compliant system.”

"At Grammarly, Opal enabled us to migrate all access management for over 150 corporate applications and hundreds of production services across two public clouds to a unified employee experience in just a few weeks."

"Opal has improved everybody’s user experience when it comes to access provisioning and access reviews. Not only has it sped up the process significantly for our end users, but it’s also easier for them to have that catalog of what they can get access to.”

“Access reviews and access management were a tedious time sink for us at Obsidian before we adopted Opal. But unlike a lot of other security products, Opal is one of those rare products that gives us back time to focus on what matters, which is amazing.”

"Opal fills the sweet spot of being a developer-friendly tool that we can drive solely through APIs and the Terraform provider, while giving us the features we need."

"Implementing Opal was really straightforward. It tracks access logs in one place automatically, so we have peace of mind we're storing everything we need for upcoming audits."

"As Merge continues to scale, it's important our security scales with it. By partnering with Opal, we don't have to worry about access controls anymore. We can focus on our mission to reshape the way businesses integrate."

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