Storable eliminates standing privilege risk with 1Password's cloud-native access management platform

94% reduced security risk

99% reduction in access wait time

93% reduction in excessive admin accounts

Overview

From management software and demand generation to CRM tools and delinquency solutions, Storable helps storage operators optimize workflows, attract new tenants, and grow revenue. With the company’s growth and desire to continue innovating and providing a peerless customer experience, Storable recognized that it needed secure, visible access control over who could and could not access the company’s cloud resources and data and for what purposes.

Storable also needed to eliminate the standing access that created persistent risk across its cloud infrastructure; the kind of access that sits dormant, accumulates over time, and becomes the attack surface that breaches exploit. The 1Password platform, built on Zero Standing Privilege principles with dynamic guardrails based on business context, proved to be the right solution.

Traditional access control methods fail to keep pace

Storable provides facility management for self-storage facilities of all sizes with the industry’s only fully integrated technology platform. The company’s growth and desire to continue iterating on its platform to provide enhanced customer experiences inspired the need to solve what it saw as business challenges around access to resources and its cloud environments.

The company needed a secure, privileged access solution to manage how teams and individuals within the organization accessed data and cloud infrastructure as well as visibility into the business purpose for each entity gaining access. Storable also wanted a solution that would reduce the manual effort of managing access across the organization so that teams could focus on value generation rather than management tasks. Its traditional access control methods simply could not keep pace with modern operational and security needs.

Like most organizations scaling cloud infrastructure rapidly, Storable was carrying more standing privilege risk than it could effectively manage. Every identity in the environment held persistent access to systems and data they didn't need continuously. That standing access created audit exposure, compliance risk, and a growing attack surface with no straightforward path to clean it up.

These challenges fall into a few key categories, such as:

• Standing access and over-permissioned accounts, which creates significant security vulnerabilities.

• Manual, inefficient access workflows involve lengthy approval chains and manual provisioning where DevOps and other teams can wait hours or even days for access, delaying product delivery and draining productivity.

• Lack of visibility and auditability into who had access to what, how access was used, and whether privilege levels were appropriate means that post-incident investigations and reporting are difficult and compliance audits stressful and time consuming.

• Rapid growth, infrastructure complexity, and inadequate support for non-human identities further exacerbate security challenges and risks while consuming resources.

Honestly, 1Password has given us so much value in terms of our partnership that I really can’t sing their praises enough. Now that we’ve fully onboarded into 1Password, we have well over a thousand resources that are being secured by 1Password

Janna Hilferty
Lead Cloud Security Architect at Storable

A seamless, fast, just‑in‑time and just‑enough privilege access solution

During a period of due diligence, Storable selected 1Password's cloud-native privileged access management platform as its solution. 1Password's Zero Standing Privilege architecture eliminates standing access entirely. Rather than managing existing credentials, the platform creates roles and permissions dynamically at request time, scoped to the specific task, and revokes them automatically when the session ends.

This gave Storable complete visibility into who has access to what across its infrastructure, with self-service access requests that resolve in seconds rather than hours or days. Because Storable runs infrastructure as code, the API-driven 1Password platform integrated quickly with existing codified infrastructure with no additional overhead or separate tooling to maintain.

As Storable implements a new solution, this upgrade cuts development time because teams do not need additional infrastructure and overhead to manually integrate into a traditional access tool. Storable can automatically launch the development environment and integrate it with its infrastructure as code.

1Password's native integration with AWS IAM Identity Center enables dynamic mapping of permissions sets and accounts, granting time-bound access to AWS accounts and environments with full auditability. Every access request, approval decision, and session action is logged with complete business context, giving Storable's team the granular data auditors need without manual review cycles. Native credential vaulting ensures credentials are provisioned at request time, never stored in standing form, and automatically rotated when sessions close.

In general, the 1Password platform directly addresses and overcomes the core access management challenges modern organizations face by eliminating standing access; streamlining access with just-in-time automation; enforcing visibility, auditability, and accountability; supporting enterprise scale and agility; and securing non-human identities. The result is reduced risk, accelerated workflows, improved compliance, bridges the gap between security and operations, and replaces fragmented, manual processes with intelligent, automated access governance fit for modern cloud environments.

Key to this utility is the 1Password-AWS partnership where AWS provides a foundational platform for customer environments and as critical partner to enable secure, scalable access management.

1Password is deeply embedded into the AWS ecosystem, integrating with key services:

• Amazon S3

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

• Amazon Lambda

• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

As such, AWS is not just a deployments target for 1Password, it’s a strategic backbone delivering fast, effective, and secure access governance.

A more secure, agile, and efficient future for Storable

With zero standing privileges as the baseline, Storable operates with a fundamentally smaller attack surface. There are no persistent credentials to compromise, no forgotten admin accounts to exploit, and no excessive permissions to inherit. When incidents occur, on-call engineers get immediate break-glass access to production systems with full audit trails intact and zero standing credentials left behind when the incident closes.

Storable has secured more than 1,000 resources through 1Password and built over 250 access flows, each with its own approval workflow and approval groups that enforce infrastructure security and automate business justifications. Compliance teams get audit-ready reporting for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA without stitching together fragmented logs.

The ZSP foundation Storable built also positions the organization for what comes next. As AI agents and copilots move into production environments alongside engineers, they inherit the same just-in-time, task-scoped access controls already in place with no additional architecture required. Standing privilege risk is addressed before agents make it impossible to defer.