Case Study: Valon reduces access request time from 3 days to 5 minutes with Opal

Valon cuts access requests from 3 days to 5 minutes with Opal

Valon, a fintech company servicing mortgages, faced the challenge of scaling its access management controls for its growing engineering team. With a small IT team supporting over 250 employees, providing just-in-time access to sensitive resources was operationally difficult. Valon needed a solution from a vendor like Opal to enforce least privilege without hindering productivity.

Using the Opal platform, Valon integrated with its existing Google and Slack infrastructure to provide timed, just-in-time access to sensitive resources like Google Secret Manager. The solution from Opal streamlined the request and approval process via Slack, reducing the average access grant time from 3 days to 5 minutes, a 288x improvement, while significantly enhancing its security posture.

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