Cerbos Hub: Your authorization headache, managed
Easily implement, manage, and delegate fine-grained access control.
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A complete authorization management system for authoring, testing and deploying policy
Manage policies in one place
Monitoring & observability
Track all deployed PDP instances across your entire infrastructure.
Managed CI/CD pipeline
Deploy different authorization policies for dev, test, and production environments.
Automate PDP policy tests as part of CI processes.
Coordinated roll-out
Synchronize authorization policies across your apps, APIs, and infrastructure.
Authorize anywhere
In your infrastructure
Whether on-premise, cloud, functions, or Kubernetes, Cerbos Hub simplifies testing and distribution keeping policy in sync.
Serverless architectures
Works in Vercel, Netlify, AWS Lambda & CloudFront, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions.
At edge & embedded devices
Pre-compiled libraries provide local execution for edge devices such as security hardware and cameras.
In browser runtime
Make local, in-browser authorization calls for React, Angular, and front-end frameworks, powered by WebAssembly.
Author, test, and iterate
Web IDE for building policies
Create policies in YAML with our policy wizard, and use the playground to define, validate, and test authorization rules.
Real-time group collaboration
Pair programmers or different team members to edit and review policies like a Google doc.
Push authorization policy files changes directly from the Playground IDE to your Github repo.
Test-driven development (TDD)
All tests are executed in the Cerbos Hub CI pipeline before policy is rolled out to PDPs.
Simple but powerful API
Trade spaghetti code for an allow/deny API response.
Make policy changes without changing API implementation.
Track changes, deployments & decisons
Full auditing and accountability
Centralized audit logs capturing every request and decision can be streamed to your existing log management or SIEM system.
Git-Ops friendly
Integrated into your existing git-based workflows to capture the real-time audit trail of every change to your authorization logic.
Compliance
Aligned with top-tier security standards such as ISO27001, SOC2, and HIPAA.
Use cases
Product packaging
Provide trials, feature bundles and custom packages for customers.
What our users say about Cerbos
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"
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
Romina, Tech Lead
@ Wizeline
"It is easy to implement and provides a solution for a problem that is often not properly addressed."
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."
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!"
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