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Access Decisions at Machine Speed, With Human Judgment

Access Decisions at Machine Speed, With Human Judgment

Paladin is an AI-powered access evaluation engine with the context of your CISO and the execution speed of a security engineer. It approves what's safe. It escalates what isn't.

Every reviewer is making the same impossible bet.

Approve fast and risk a breach. Investigate thoroughly and become a bottleneck. Reviewers are spending hours making decisions that produce entitlements nobody uses or monitors.

WASTED TIME

SECURITY EXPOSURE

INSTANT REVIEW ACCESS

15 minutes median. 92 hours worst case.

Across 500K requests on the Opal platform, approval latency ranges from seconds to days — purely depending on whether the reviewer has context.

43.5% of granted access goes unused.

Reviewers approve access they can't fully evaluate. The result: entitlements that sit idle for 90+ days, compounding your attack surface.

The problem isn't effort. It's context.

Reviewers don't lack diligence — they lack instant access to identity history, ticket validation, policy lookups, and resource classification. Paladin has it all.

HOW OPAL SOLVES IT

See. Encode. Enforce.

Today Opal is defining what access management needs to become with three tools that cover the full spectrum of access management — from AI-driven judgment calls to deterministic policy rules to instant visibility into who has what.

Paladin

The AI reviewer in your approval chain.

Paladin is a fully-capable reviewer entity in Opal's approval chain — a service user you assign to any stage. It evaluates requests the way a senior security engineer would: pulling context from identity systems, tickets, access history, and resource metadata before deciding.

OpalScript

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OpalScript is a Python-like configuration language embedded in the Opal platform that enables security teams to codify access decision logic as executable automations. Administrators write short scripts — or ask an AI assistant to generate and modify them — that run automatically when access-related events occur, such as a new request being assigned for review.

OpalQuery

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Query Studio is an AI-powered access query environment embedded in the Opal platform that enables security teams, GRC analysts, and administrators to explore their organization's access data using natural language or structured filters.

From request to resolution in seconds.

01

Request Arrives

A human or AI agent submits an access request. Paladin is assigned to the approval stage — just like any human reviewer.

02

We Investigate

In seconds, Paladin cross-references identity history, validates ticket references, checks policy rules, and infers resource sensitivity.

03

Decision & Reason

Paladin approves with confidence, or escalates with a precise explanation of exactly what's missing. Never a vague "needs review" flag.

04

Audit Trail

Every decision — automated or human — flows through the same activity feed with complete reasoning, timestamps, and exportable evidence.

Trusted by security teams that ship fast and sleep well.

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