Case Study: Blend achieves holistic Zero Trust access with Twingate

Blend uses Opal and Twingate to implement a holistic Zero Trust Strategy

Blend, a fin-tech company using Twingate alongside Opal, needed a better way to manage employee access as it rapidly grew from a small team to 1,000+ employees. Its security team was burdened by manual, time-consuming access requests, inconsistent VPN rules, and the need to coordinate with many application owners, all while trying to maintain strong zero trust controls.

By implementing Twingate, Blend simplified network access with short-lived, granular access and easier deployment through integrations with Okta, Terraform, and Opal. Twingate helped Blend replace multiple VPN solutions, improve transparency and consistency, and reduce operational friction so employees could access the tools they needed with minimal disruption. The company reported that Twingate supported 10x employee growth while helping enable a secure-by-default zero trust architecture.

Blend

Paul Guthrie

Information Security Officer