Opal Zero: A Smart Fix for Risky AI Agent Access Permissions
Opal Security says Opal Zero reaches general availability at the end of September 2026, built on a three-part definition of least privilege for agents: grants that expire, an owner for every agent, and a decision made at the point of access rather than at provisioning time. Opal Labs reports that more than 96 percent of non-human identities have no recorded purpose and only 10 percent of their access was reviewed in the past year. This article covers the Paladin reasoning model, the Risk Center, how Gateway Sync enforces without adding a proxy, what the design partners at Faire, Databricks, Elastic and Superhuman actually said, the $30,000 launch price and the claims that remain unproven.
