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Opal Security Overview

What is Opal Security?

Opal secures the identity perimeter for modern enterprises. With Opal, security teams can prioritize risk, delegate management across the company, and measure impact across security, productivity, and compliance. The world's best companies, such as Databricks, Figma, Blend, and Marqeta, trust Opal to govern and adapt sensitive access. Opal is backed by Greylock and some of the top security experts around the world, including Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI).

Opal Security Details
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Product Description

With Opal, your company can provide engineers with complete onboarding, grant granular short-lived access across the company, and automate painful compliance workflows. Opal can be easily integrated into the modern developer stack and deployed in minutes.


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Year Founded
2020
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San Francisco, US
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Opal is the unified identity platform for modern enterprises. Opal aggregates identity and access data to provide visibility and defense-in-depth infrastructure for mission-critical systems. With the product, enterprises can discover anomalous identity risks and remediate them in minutes. The world's best companies trust Opal to govern and adapt sensitive access.


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Enrique E.
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Enrique E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Essential security platform to enforce least privilege"
Opal's platform has allowed us to manage our GCP environment in a SOC-2 compliant and secure manner. We can easily demonstrate that our critical da...
Daniel L.
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Daniel L.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Clear and consistent access management for a wide range of services."
Opal makes managing access to a wide range of services simple and consistant. Its UI is clear and intutive requring minial end user documentation. ...
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4.0 out of 5
"Finally a Modern IAM Platform!"
Opal allows me to define what least privilege looks like and ensure its consistently enforced. This is the first product i've seen that enables dee...
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Opal Security Media

Opal Security Demo - Find unknown identity threats and fix them in minutes
Get centralized visibility across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal tools. Opal surfaces identity risks in an access graph paired with one-click remediations.
Opal Security Demo - Protect against breaches with least privilege
Identity mismanagement is the leading cause of breaches. With Opal, the right employees are granted the right level of access for the right amount of time.
Opal Security Demo - Accelerate employee access on paved roads
Enable employees to easily get access in a simple, fast, and secure manner.
Opal Security Demo - Be compliance ready without the manual overhead
Automate spreadsheet-based workflows needed for SOX, SOC-2, ISO, and HITRUST user access reviews
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Chris J.
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CTO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

- It's relatively easy to integrate into existing infrastructure

- The concepts are simple and relatively easy to use

- Reliability and uptime has been great

- Team has been incredibly supportive and fun to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

- Opal is still a relatively early-stage company

- The self-hosted deployment option is less mature than hosted

- Core UX flows have been evolving and improving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Opal to control access to our infrastructure. Not only do our compliance certifications (SOC 2) require this, but it's also part of the core security posture that we sell to customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Hey Chris! We really appreciate the positive sentiment. I hear you regarding core UX flows – we've completely re-designed our product to make the experience easier to use. Thank you for your support and partnership!

Shensi D.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

The Opal team is really great. They're really responsive and very helpful. It's clear that they're eager to make their customers happy.

Opal has become a critical part of our daily workflows. We use the Opal Slack feature a lot, and it's helped speed up access requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

Nothing comes to mind right now. We've been able to get new features and help as we need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted to increase our security posture by limiting who at our company had data to what, and Opal has been very effective at allowing us to do that as we grow quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Hey Shensi! Thank you for the amazing review – we definitely pride ourselves on being customer obsessed. Thank you for your support and partnership!

Brandon P.
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

The highlight for my team is how attentive Opal has been to implementing the product and how responsive their team has been to issues we encountered while setting Opal up in our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

There isn't anything really negative I can say. Some features aren't available yet, but Opal is constantly upgrading and adding features to address this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal is going to reduce the amount of time we spend with handing access requests, providing just-in-time access to our users who need something quickly, and organizing our monthly user access reviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Hey Brandon! Thank you for the kind words. We really pride ourselves on dedicated customer support and intuitive user experiences. Thank you for all your product feedback. We've worked really closely as partners and I'm thrilled to continue our partnership.

Michael W.
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

Before Opal, access reviews and requests were a painful and manual process. Now, we have automated, audited processes that allow us to focus on higher priority tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

User Access Reviews could be a little more feature rich (pre-assigning), and Jira integration was a little shaky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal is allowing us to focus on more important work by automating user access and audits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Hey Michael! Thank you for the positive review! We are thrilled to hear that Opal has been able to automate both access reviews and requests. We really appreciate your feedback. Since your review, we have added many new options to pre-assign reviews and have made our Jira integration a lot more stable. Thank you for your support and business!

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What do you like best about Opal Security?

Opal has eased our access approval and execution process, and we are continuing to overhaul the process. Implementing Opal improved this process for us and our users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

The only downside to Opal is that we didn't use it sooner! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal improved our IAM processes and our audit standpoint. Since everything is automated, we can reduce the amount of evidence required for auditory regulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Opal Security! It's great to hear that Opal has made a significant positive impact on your access approval and execution process. I'm glad to see that the automation features have helped you reduce the amount of evidence required for audits.

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What do you like best about Opal Security?

Opal is very intuitive and easy to use. It removes a lot of extra steps for us in our provisioning processes, and makes it a lot easier for us to keep track of access. Highly recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

- No downsides so far.

- Works as advertised, all the time, and is easy to use - more than I can say for a lot of security tooling! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal solves secure access for our IT and engineering teams. This is a huge benefit to our security efforts because it makes implementing a least privilege policy easy to administer and enforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Thank you for the positive review! We're really invested in a consumer-grade user experience – glad to hear that Opal is intuitive and easy to use! We really appreciate your support and looking forward to serving your business!

Verified User in Internet
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

Having Just-in-Time access controls to critical infrastructure, automated approval chains, and improved auditing for access posture has been incredibly helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

I wish it were easier to deal with inherited default access. There are solutions to this, but they require a bit of planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Opal we have stronger guarantees around access controls, stream-lined reporting, and our analysts are spending way less time on monthly access audits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Thank you for writing a review! We are thrilled to hear that we can support your business on just-in-time access controls. We hear you regarding inherited default access. Our recent feature release, bundles, grants default access in a secure and automated manner. Thank you for your support and feedback!

Verified User in Telecommunications
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

The relative ease of use. Once you grasp how to use it, it's fairly simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

Natural limitation in non-Okta related provisioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal helps speed up UAM with automatic actioning for technical operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Thank you for your feedback! We pride ourselves in great design and user experience. We look forward to continuing supporting your business and building the best UAM product!

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Opal Security?

Granular controls and settings. Ability to integrate with Pagerduty for automatic access provisioning for people that are on call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

Interface not as interactive/end user friendly as other solutions we have seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

(Automatic) authorization through Pagerduty integration, lean request/approval processes for one-off access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Eugene Ling of Opal Security

Thank you for your review! We are thrilled to hear that you've been using the PagerDuty integration to automate on-call access management. Since your review, we've completely re-designed the product to deliver it delightful and easy to use. Thank you for your feedback and continued support!

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What do you like best about Opal Security?

Provides a simple platform to control ssh, AWS IAM, and database access to critical production systems.

Records interactions in cloudwatch logs for audit

Easy LDAP integration

Ability the tag requests with Jira tickets for traceability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal Security?

There is very little to dislike in this product, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Opal Security:

Great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Traceability.

Security access to production assets

Audit evidence.

The ability for breakglass access requests to sensitive systems.

Centralizes reporting and manages audit reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.