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Cloud Infrastructure Access Control

Secure access control for critical cloud infrastructure

Get granular visibility and control of complex cloud access for humans and agents.

Secure access control for critical cloud infrastructure
Your engineering team needs access fast.
Your security team needs access governed.

C1 provides engineers and agents with precisely scoped cloud access in seconds. This eliminates the tradeoff between speed and security by replacing risky broad permissions and slow manual requests with precise, instant access.

Cloud access control that scales.

Know who can reach what, across every scope

See exactly who can reach what and why. C1 reads your cloud hierarchy and resolves inherited permissions in real time, so you always know your actual blast radius.

Right-size at the point of grant, not in a remediation cycle

Eliminate broad permissions that increase risk with grants that match the task, enforcing least privilege across engineers and AI agents.

Move to zero standing privileges with JIT access

Give engineers and AI agents instant access to the cloud resources they need, for only as long as they need it, and nothing more. Stay compliance-ready with access logged, time-bound, and revoked automatically.

Run access reviews that reflect what was actually granted

Access reviewers see an easy-to-understand list of bindings and what each grants downstream, so certification decisions are based on actual access, not guess work. And AI recommendations help reviewers process tasks quickly without rubber-stamping.

Built for the way engineers work

Configure access policies with Terraform. Drive workflow automation with C1's automations, Functions, and open API. Give infrastructure teams governed access through the tools they already use — Slack/Teams, CLI, or MCP — not a portal they have to context-switch into.

Modern organizations trust C1 to scale access at the speed of AI

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We're able to minimize the number of users with access to critical systems at a given time. That's a big security win for us across the board.

Paul Yoo, Head of Security Platform

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How C1 governs cloud infrastructure access

Step 1

Sync the resource hierarchy

C1 reads your cloud providers’ resource trees, preserving the parent-child relationships each platform uses natively. If it exists in your environment, it's in the graph.

Step 2

Define access policies

Set who can request what, at which scope, with what approvals. Policies cover dynamic provisioning, JIT access, on-call auto-approval, and lifecycle rules — for humans and agents on the same platform.

Step 3

Grant and review at the right scope

Requesters browse the resource tree, pick a scope and a role, and submit. Reviewers evaluate each binding with downstream impact visible. No more sprawling permissions or rubber stamping.

Step 4

Enforce continuously

Access provisions, adjusts, and revokes automatically as roles change, teams shift, or agents are redeployed. Joiner, mover, and leaver rules follow the hierarchy without manual intervention.

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