Overview
Applied Intuition provides advanced simulation software and infrastructure tools for the development and testing of autonomous vehicles. Their technology accelerates safe, efficient deployment of self-driving systems, and is trusted by 18 of the top 20 global automakers.
Challenge
As Applied Intuition scaled, maintaining SOC 2 compliance and customer trust became more complex. Their infrastructure team faced growing friction:
- Overhead with provisioning escalated access: Engineers submitted 50+ access requests per week through JIRA or Slack, overwhelming the infrastructure team.
- Over-provisioned access: Manual processes meant privileged access was sometimes left open longer than needed, increasing risk.
- Poor developer experience: Access approvals could take hours, delaying incident response and frustrating engineers, especially on-call.
Solution
Applied Intuition partnered with P0 Security to replace manual workflows with automated, just-in-time access. In a single onboarding session, they deployed P0’s platform to manage sensitive AWS resources and customer environments.
Key features:
- Just-in-time access to AWS resources, including customer environments and managed policies like Lambda and S3
- Slack integration for quick access requests and approvals
- PagerDuty integration to grant on-call engineers immediate access without human approval
Results
Developer velocity and productivity
- Access approvals dropped from hours to minutes, and instantly for on-call engineers.
- Eliminated 50+ weekly escalation tickets, giving back hours to the infrastructure team.
Compliance and audit readiness
- SOC 2 requirements enforced with no standing access to sensitive resources.
- Every request logged and auditable, reducing quarterly audit prep time.
Incident response and resilience
- On-call engineers gain permissions immediately during incidents, reducing downtime.
- Automated provisioning/de-provisioning eliminates risk of lingering privileged access.