Blend, a company, implemented a holistic Zero Trust strategy using Opal and Twingate to improve security while reducing user friction. With Opal, Blend employees can use a self-service app catalog to make requests, and admins can scale approvals and management through decentralization of system owners and managers. Twingate provides secure access with a modern Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution that combines enterprise-grade security with a consumer-grade user experience. The combination of Opal and Twingate empowers Blend to manage access granularly, reduce operational friction, and implement zero trust across its network, applications, and infrastructure, making it secure by default.