Styra Offers Long Term Support Release for Open Policy Agent

Styra, Inc., the founders of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and leaders in cloud-native authorization, today announced that Styra Essentials now includes Long Term Support for Open Policy Agent, enabling companies in highly regulated industries to take advantage of cloud-native authorization policy. Highly regulated industries typically limit how often companies can update their software in order to reduce new risks. Styra Essentials solves this problem with a vetted,  semi-annual version of OPA that includes critical fixes and security patches, as well as Styra Essentials 24×7 support.

“At Styra, we’re focused on delivering the best solutions we can to the OPA Community and our customers of all sizes and across all verticals,” said Tim Hinrichs, co-creator of OPA and co-founder and chief technology officer of Styra. “This release is a result of requests from our most highly regulated users in the healthcare and financial industries to provide a version of OPA that works with their upgrade regulations and includes 24×7 support from us. ”

As companies move from experimentation towards production, reducing risk becomes more critical.  One way some teams mitigate risk is by limiting when new features and functionality can be deployed. Styra Essentials limits the risk often associated with new features, while still providing security-related updates on a schedule that can be managed by companies for which outage windows, patches and updates are closely managed.

Many highly regulated companies cannot move forward with software that does not have 24×7 support staff. Styra, as the founders and maintainers of OPA, has a team of OPA and Rego experts on call to support a growing set of commercial customers, as well as open source users. Styra Essentials includes this best-in-class support including:

Styra Essentials is available to all customers now. Learn more about Styra here. 

Styra enables enterprises to define, enforce and monitor policy across their cloud-native environments. With a combination of open source (Open Policy Agent) and commercial solutions (Declarative Authorization Service), Styra provides security, operations and compliance guardrails to protect applications, as well as the infrastructure they run on. Styra policy-as-code solutions lets developers, DevOps and security teams mitigate risks, reduce human error and accelerate application development. Learn more at styra.com.