Use Case
Give engineers temporary, scoped access to the production databases they need, right from Slack, Teams, or the CLI. Apono, now part of 1Password, grants access for a set window, revokes it on its own, and logs every step. No shared passwords. No permanent roles.
Database access management is how you control who can reach a database, what they can do inside it, and for how long. Your databases hold customer records, payment data, and the business logic your product runs on. That makes them the first place an attacker goes once they get a foothold.
Most teams still manage database access by hand. An engineer needs to debug a production issue, so someone shares an admin password or adds them to a read-write role. The task ends in an hour, but the access stays for months. Multiply that across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and every cloud database you run, and no one can say who has access to what.
The result is a wide blast radius. One stolen laptop, leaked credential, or compromised identity can reach data that person stopped needing long ago.
How It Works
Apono replaces shared credentials and standing roles with Just-in-Time database access. Engineers get what the task needs, and nothing stays open after it’s done. Here’s how a database access request moves through Apono:
Your engineers don’t work in one database. Apono applies the same request, approval, and revoke flow across self-managed, SaaS, and cloud-hosted data stores, so you set policy once instead of per engine.
Automated database access pays off for both the engineer who needs in and the security owner who signs off:
Customer Story
OpenWeb used to route every production database request through its DevOps team. With Apono, developers now request and get scoped database access on their own, and security keeps a record of every grant.
“Before we had Apono, developers who needed access to fix something in production or look into the database actually had to connect with the DevOps team to get permissions.”
CTO and CISO, OpenWeb
Engineers ask for database access in Slack, Teams, or the Apono CLI. There’s no extra portal to learn, so people actually use the governed path instead of asking a teammate for a password.
Engineers ask for database access in Slack, Teams, or the Apono CLI. There’s no extra portal to learn, so people actually use the governed path instead of asking a teammate for a password.
Access Flows decide who can request which databases, at what permission level, and who approves. Policies can pull context from your identity provider, like Okta or Entra ID, and from on-call tools like PagerDuty.
Access Flows decide who can request which databases, at what permission level, and who approves. Policies can pull context from your identity provider, like Okta or Entra ID, and from on-call tools like PagerDuty.
The Apono Connector runs in your environment and doesn’t read, cache, or store secrets. It can work with the secrets manager you already use, such as HashiCorp Vault or 1Password, so database credentials stay where you trust them.
The Apono Connector runs in your environment and doesn’t read, cache, or store secrets. It can work with the secrets manager you already use, such as HashiCorp Vault or 1Password, so database credentials stay where you trust them.
Apono reports on every access event and flags unusual activity for review. Most customers roll out access control across their organization in about two weeks, and database Access Flows come online as part of that rollout.
Apono reports on every access event and flags unusual activity for review. Most customers roll out access control across their organization in about two weeks, and database Access Flows come online as part of that rollout.
Apono supports:
It also covers cloud databases on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including RDS, Redshift, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and BigQuery.
Give engineers fast, scoped access to production databases without shared passwords or permanent roles. See how Apono automates database access management on a Zero Standing Privilege model, so you shrink your attack surface without slowing your team down.
