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Fine-grained access control in days not months

Scalable and extensible authorization service for developer, product and security teams.

Join hundreds of leading companies using Cerbos

The world's leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.
Multiservice utility provider, trusted by over 700,000 customers.
One of the world's leading automobile manufacturers.
Creating a world where workplaces work better.
4G Capital saves a quarter-million dollars per year with Cerbos
Enabling all healthcare stakeholders to easily share information and work together.
Enhancing and accelerating the software development lifecycle.
The leading European analyst firm in identity and access management.
Modern and digital survey solutions for companies.
A leading youth culture ecommerce and content platform.
The experts in medical imaging technology.
Making the world a better place to work together.
An early stage tech venture investor.
The collaborative platform to build conversational AI.
The intelligence decision action platform.
The fastest development platform.
The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.
One of the world's fastest-growing global technology services provider.
The faster, smarter way to find leveraged finance intelligence.
The only video platform designed to help salespeople break through.
People analytics platform: Fast track to the insights behind your people data.
Advanced malware and phishing analysis.
Leading search intelligence platform for the open web.
Logistics payments without the logistics.
Automated financial operations.
A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Superpowered corporate card with built-in instalments.
The data-driven inventory management software for restaurants.
The financial operating system that automates cash.
Making the world a better place to work together.
Build and manage residential investment portfolios.
Securely manage application secrets and configurations.
A discussion-first platform without language issues.
Collaborative team design canvas that equips tech leaders to make smarter org design decisions.
The world's leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.
Multiservice utility provider, trusted by over 700,000 customers.
One of the world's leading automobile manufacturers.
Creating a world where workplaces work better.
4G Capital saves a quarter-million dollars per year with Cerbos
Enabling all healthcare stakeholders to easily share information and work together.
Enhancing and accelerating the software development lifecycle.
The leading European analyst firm in identity and access management.
Modern and digital survey solutions for companies.
A leading youth culture ecommerce and content platform.
The experts in medical imaging technology.
Making the world a better place to work together.
An early stage tech venture investor.
The collaborative platform to build conversational AI.
The intelligence decision action platform.
The fastest development platform.
The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.
One of the world's fastest-growing global technology services provider.
The faster, smarter way to find leveraged finance intelligence.
The only video platform designed to help salespeople break through.
People analytics platform: Fast track to the insights behind your people data.
Advanced malware and phishing analysis.
Leading search intelligence platform for the open web.
Logistics payments without the logistics.
Automated financial operations.
A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Superpowered corporate card with built-in instalments.
The data-driven inventory management software for restaurants.
The financial operating system that automates cash.
Making the world a better place to work together.
Build and manage residential investment portfolios.
Securely manage application secrets and configurations.
A discussion-first platform without language issues.
Collaborative team design canvas that equips tech leaders to make smarter org design decisions.
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Make roles and permissions an asset, not a chore

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Faster app development

Save months on development with a plug and play API-enabled toolkit that decouples authorization for any app.

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Flexible to changing requirements

Quickly adapt to ever-evolving security requirements with flexible tooling that seamlessly integrates with your workflow.

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Increased security at scale

Synchronize access control across all apps and services in your architecture, scaling to billions of requests.

Decouple authorization logic from your application code

#1

Replace the spaghetti if/else case/switch code with a single function call.

if (user.email.includes("@mycompany.com") ||
  (user.company.package === "premium" && user.groups.includes("managers"))
) {
  if(user.region === resource.region) {
    // access allowed
    AuditLog.record("ALLOWED", "edit", user, resource);
  } else {
    // access denied
    AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
  }
} else {
  // access denied
  AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
}
if (await cerbos.isAllowed({ principal: user, resource, action: "edit" })) {
  // allowed
}

Before

After

#2

Define the RBAC and ABAC rules in standardized policies.

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#3

Call Cerbos API from anywhere in your stack - New requirements, new policies and conditions can be introduced without having to make a change to your core application.

if (user.email.includes("@mycompany.com") ||
  (user.company.package === "premium" && user.groups.includes("managers"))
) {
  if(user.region === resource.region) {
    // access allowed
    AuditLog.record("ALLOWED", "edit", user, resource);
  } else {
    // access denied
    AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
  }
} else {
  // access denied
  AuditLog.record("DENIED", "edit", user, resource);
}
if (await cerbos.isAllowed({ principal: user, resource, action: "edit" })) {
  // allowed
}

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After

Build roles and permissions in minutes

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Pre-built integrations and policies

Get up and running in minutes with SDKs and starter projects for common frameworks, servers, ORMs and identity providers.

Ecosystem
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Permissions aware data filtering

Generate dynamic conditions to query and filter based on the access policy for each object and principal.

Query filtering
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Beyond RBAC/ABAC

Implement context-aware role definitions and attribute-based access control for adaptable, granular security policies.

RBAC
ABAC

Iterate with ease

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Human-readable

Manage policies in configuration instead of code.

Low-code
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Policy Playground

Experiment with policies in a safe environment and get simulated results in real time.

Playground
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GitOps testing

Implement a CI/CD workflow with GitOps. Reduce human errors and enhance security.

GitOps & CI/CD
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Stateless and scalable

Stateless decision points run in your environment or at the edge.

Stateless authZ

Deploy without risk

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Audit trails

Capture all actions attempted and decisions made by your Cerbos policies. ISO27001, SOC2, HIPAA compliant.

Audit logs
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Coordinated rollout and monitoring

Centralized management and real-time policy deployment to keep authorization synchronized across your application.

Coordinated rollout
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Low-latency

Decisions are made locally in sub-milliseconds without requiring any cloud lookups.

Low-latency
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Flexible deployment models

Self-hosted, compatible with air-gapped, high security environments. Deploy with serverless functions or a sidecar model.

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Cerbos benefits for different roles

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Developers

Replace complicated authorization logic with a single call and allow product owners or security teams to manage access without touching code.

Implement authZ once
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Product Managers

Define and evolve complex policies without requiring further developer time.

Plug and play collaborative authZ
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Security teams

Track and audit access requests, grants and denials without without requiring further developer effort.

Low-code collaborative authZ

What our users say about Cerbos

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Rob, Principal Engineer
@ Utility Warehouse

"It's weird to say an outside company has our back, but Cerbos does. It's the people. It's their open-source code: it's high quality, you can read it, it does what it says on the tin"

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Joe, Software Engineer
@ 9fin

"It's a good feeling being able to say yes to almost any permissioning requirement." "Cerbos is small, contained and easy to implement. It 100% delivers on the promise of abstracting away the complexity of decision making."

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David, Senior Software Engineer
@ Salesroom

"We're not worried about scaling because we can easily increase our load on Cerbos. It will also be easy for us to change how we're distributing policies as we reach different points of scale."

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Joe, CEO & Co-Founder
@ Nook

"We went from one user - every role, to a world where there are many users - many roles. And the product, it relies on Cerbos to actually bring the value that we want to bring to customers. All of our customers are relying on Cerbos, by relying on the product, which is of course relying on Cerbos."

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Chuck, Head of Engineering
@ Salesroom

"Instead of thinking of how much time Cerbos has saved us, I think about how much time it didn't cost us. It didn't cost us any time. Cerbos just works. I don't have to think about it. It's as simple as that."

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Steve, Staff Engineer
@ NTWRK

"One of our big considerations was speed. We have strict latency tolerances. When it comes to Cerbos - you can call it a hundred times during a request and it doesn't matter. It's incredibly fast."

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Engin, Head of Product and Growth & Co-Founder
@ Debite

"If it wasn't for Cerbos, one thing is for sure - we would've launched later than we did. As a result, we would have less customers. And the maintenance part is also very important. Our technical team would be dealing with daily stuff regarding access controls, access logs. Now, we don't have to spend any time on that."

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Rounak, Founding Engineer
@ CommandK

"Cerbos policy writing is quite flexible, and deploying as a unit microservice as well. Cerbos "doesn't get in the way" once integrated, that's the best part."

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Romina, Tech Lead
@ Wizeline

"It is easy to implement and provides a solution for a problem that is often not properly addressed."

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Henry, CTO & Co-Founder
@ Nook

"Having the separation of the permissions from the code base just makes the code base more elegant. It makes the permissioning more elegant. It means they're centralized, so they're not tied to specific endpoints. And ultimately it means that different business owners have the ability to actually make updates."

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Rasmus, CTO
@ Firtal

"Just discovered your embedded testing framework. This is probably the best balance between hyperfocused functionality and embedded tooling I've ever seen in an open source project. Damn, good work!"

Most popular resources

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Cerbos Policy Decision Point

Want to run authorization yourself?

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Playground

Prototype policies in your browser right now

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Docs

Check out our API reference and guides

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Slack community

Join our community on Slack and learn

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Success stories

Stories of Cerbos in production

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