Our Public Beta and Partnership with HashiCorp

Our Public Beta Launch

When Jeff and I co-founded Abbey Labs, we had experienced first-hand the toil of managing granular permissions to critical cloud infrastructure, and our goal was to fix that. Our guiding light was that the engineers closest to cloud infrastructure were dealing with the brunt of the pain, and it was their lives that we would try to make easier.

When we launched our private alpha, we met James Flowers, the Head of DevSecOps at Extend. As a fintech company partnering with heavily regulated financial institutions, Extend knew enforcing least privilege was not only a necessity from a security perspective, but also critical for compliance.

Extend had an immediate challenge: engineers periodically needed break glass access to production databases. Given the urgent nature of those requests, James needed automation so that people on his DevSecOps team weren’t a gate to access. The Extend team deployed a Grant Kit in a matter of hours, providing a centralized mechanism for engineers to request access and for compliance to approve.

After a successful deployment, James shared, “Working with the Abbey Labs team was smooth and easy. Implementation was simple, and rather than deploying yet another tool, we enriched our existing Terraform deployment and attained the secure access we needed.” He adds, “Adding Automatic Revocation logic to our infra management improved processes and created centralized identities across multiple integrations. Abbey Labs has been an excellent partner for access management.”

After success across multiple customers as part of our private alpha, the Abbey platform is now ready to use in a public Beta. Teams with up to 20 users can try it free forever, and $20 per user/month for larger teams. That includes unlimited integrations, unlimited resources, and unlimited access requests and approvals, with more detail here.

Our Partnership with Hashicorp

In addition to the launch of our public beta, I’m excited to announce Abbey Labs’ partnership with HashiCorp. The principles of both companies are similar: build for the engineer, and encourage organizations to shift from manual, error-prone tasks to automation at scale. The partnership is aimed at co-developing and co-marketing our platform for joint customers to extend their Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities and allow DevSecOps teams to automate and secure which employees can access sensitive data. Our platform works seamlessly with Terraform so developers and engineers can focus on the tasks that increase revenue rather than spending hours granting access to their team members.

You can create a free account below, or if you prefer something in-person, we’ll be at Bsides, Blackhat, and Defcon this week in Vegas.