1Password strives to deliver world-class uptime, but every robust security strategy needs to account for contingencies. The following guides will walk you through options for mitigating the impact of an outage on your users.

If an outage occurs, 1Password Device Trust is intentionally designed to fail closed to protect your environment from bad actors who may try to exploit outages to gain access to your sensitive applications. This means that if something goes wrong, users may temporarily lose access to protected applications rather than risk unauthorized access.

Prepare for a Device Posture Outage

Create internal policies around what risks you’re willing to accept in the case of a device posture outage and learn how to mitigate an outage that impacts Checks.

Implement a Recovery Plan for Okta

If you use 1Password Device Trust with Okta, you can create “break-glass” rules to turn on in case of an emergency.