# Stop choosing between fast incident response and secure access

DevFeed: [Stop choosing between fast incident response and secure access](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stop-choosing-between-fast-incident-response-and-secure-access-11942.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/opal-incident-io-integration>)

Author: Brian Hanson

Published: 2025-12-01T15:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [on-call](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-call.md>), [operational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [security-best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security-best-practices.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

incident.io announces an integration with Opal Security that automatically grants and revokes time-bound production access based on an engineer's on-call schedule. The integration is intended to speed incident response while reducing permanent, overly broad permissions and improving auditability.

## Source excerpt

incident.io's new integration with Opal Security delivers automatic, time-bound production access for on-call engineers, eliminating slow approvals and permanent permissions.