Time-limited Access Grants

Giving a developer direct access to a sensitive production table for debugging is a manual risk: you elevate their permissions, you rely on them to tell you when they are done, and you often forget to revoke access. Safe Boundary lets operators issue time-boxed access tokens that grant elevated permissions with automatic expiration and a complete audit trail — no manual cleanup required.

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Grant elevated access that expires automatically

An operator issues a time-limited token scoped to a specific identity, a specific permission set, and a specific duration — for example, read access to the payments table for 30 minutes. When the token expires, access reverts automatically. No follow-up action required.

Scoped, not blanket elevation

Time-limited grants are scoped by table, operation type, and maximum duration. A developer can be granted SELECT on a specific sensitive table without gaining broader permissions. The scope is enforced by the proxy — the developer cannot exceed it even if they try.

Full audit trail for every elevated session

Every query issued under a time-limited grant is logged with the grant ID, the identity that authorized the grant, the identity that used it, the SQL issued, and the timestamp. The audit record distinguishes normal-access queries from elevated-access queries, which is relevant for SOC 2 and HIPAA access reviews.

No Postgres permission changes required

Time-limited access is enforced at the proxy layer. The underlying Postgres role does not change. When the token expires, there is no permission to revoke in the database because none was granted — the elevation existed only in Safe Boundary's policy engine.

Issue your first time-limited access grant and eliminate manual permission cleanup from your incident response workflow.

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