Kuppinger Cole identifies Cerbos as a universal solution for API authorization

Kuppinger Cole is an analyst firm specializing in the strategic management of digital identities, privileges, authentication, and access control as well as cybersecurity and business resilience. They publish vendor-neutral research and thought leadership on the market, products, and companies within their domain of expertise. 

This week they published their Leadership Compass on API and Security Management Solutions. In the report, they provide an analysis on the market category and compare a wide range of solutions including enterprise vendors like Google and Broadcom and smaller niche providers like Cerbos. 

Kuppinger Cole’s decision to include Cerbos in this report among larger vendors is a validation of our strength as an authorization solution. In their words: “Cerbos is an example of a vendor that only solves one specific problem but does it exceptionally well.” 

Kuppinger Cole specifically highlighted the following of Cerbos’ strengths: 

• Highly scalable, low-latency stateless architecture with a broad range of supported deployment options fit for any application. 
• REST and gRPC APIs with SDKs for major languages and development frameworks. 
• YAML-based policy language allows expressing complex business logic in an agnostic manner. 
• Policy playground and IDE integrations make the solution developer-friendly. 
• Open-source codebase with a strong global community. 
• Commercial cloud-native offering is available (currently in closed beta).

The Leadership Compass on API Security and Management Solutions is available for purchase here. Thank you Kuppinger Cole for your expert analysis on this category! 

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Are you looking to improve your application's authorization logic and security? Look no further than Cerbos! Discover how Cerbos works and explore its powerful features, including:

• Cerbos Hub, a cloud-hosted authorization management plane for Cerbos
• The Cerbos playground, where you can easily build and test policies in an online editor
• The Cerbos ecosystem and its seamless integrations with various SDKs, modern frameworks, and authentication providers
• How to unlock the full potential of Cerbos by learning about the conditions you can use in policies with Google's CEL
• understand how to build Derived Roles for contextual role decisions
• Take advantage of Cerbos' unit testing and validating and testing policies in a CI/CD pipeline
• Discover the various deployment patterns and learn how to deploy Cerbos as a sidecar.

Get started building your first policies with ease and join the companies that trust Cerbos in production for their authorization needs.