Manual Approvals Create Delays and Inconsistencies
As organizations scale, manual access approvals become a growing source of friction:
- Security and IT teams are flooded with routine, low-risk access requests.
- Approvers are forced to make decisions without full context or consistency.
- End users are stuck waiting, slowing down engineering, operations, and incident response.
In high-growth environments, access needs to be both secure and instant. But legacy workflows—relying on static roles and human approvals—can’t keep up.
Axiom’s Attribute-Based Automated Workflows
Axiom’s automated access workflows eliminate bottlenecks by dynamically approving access based on real-time identity and resource attributes.
Each request is evaluated against pre-defined policies that consider:
- Who is requesting access (IdP group, job role, on-call status)
- What resource is being accessed (system, environment, criticality)
- When and how long (access window, justification, business hours)
When criteria are met, access is granted instantly—no ticket, no delay, no human intervention.
Let’s break it down:
- Request Context: Evaluates user identity, justification, access type, and duration.
- Resource Sensitivity: Matches against environment tags (e.g., non-prod vs. prod) and classifications.
- Access Policy: Applies logic such as MFA required, time restrictions, or IP controls.
- Audit Logging: Every access is fully logged with decision criteria and metadata.
This allows teams to safely auto-approve:
- Low-risk access to staging environments during work hours
- On-call engineers accessing production for incidents
- Devs pulling logs from non-sensitive systems
All without losing visibility or security.
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Automated workflows are built on top of Axiom’s dynamic policy engine. It integrates with:
- Identity Providers (IdPs): Sync groups, roles, titles, locations
- Resource Tags: Use metadata like environment, classification, owner
- Real-Time Inputs: PagerDuty on-call status, login behavior, device posture
Policies are defined using conditions that evaluate these signals—no code required. Updates to IdPs or tagging systems are automatically reflected in access decisions.
This ensures workflows are:
- Easy to maintain
- Context-aware
- Scalable across teams and systems
Built for Real-World Use Cases
A developer needs staging access to debug a test failure? If it’s during work hours and the system is low-sensitivity, it’s auto-approved. No ticket, no delay.
An on-call engineer requests access to a production dashboard during an incident? Their status and access window are verified automatically. MFA is enforced. Access is granted for 2 hours. Everything is logged.
A QA tester requests access to a non-prod database. Access is auto-approved for 1 hour with justification.
Secure, Fast, and Scalable
Automated access workflows help teams:
- Accelerate delivery by removing wait times for low-risk access.
- Reduce ticket load on IT and security.
- Maintain consistency in how access decisions are applied.
- Strengthen compliance with fully auditable, policy-driven access.
Security doesn’t have to mean slow. With Axiom, it’s secure and instant—when it makes sense.
See It in Action
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Automated Access Workflows: where speed meets security—by default.
