Reliable, transparent, and secure
Ensure consistent access control across your architecture. Track and audit requests and decisions without developer support.
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Cerbos overview
Learn how Cerbos adds declarative access control to your application in minutes.
Why Cerbos?
Cerbos helps improve security by synchronizing access controls across all apps and services in your architecture, scaling to billions of requests.
Quickly, easily and securely set up and change roles and permissions of any complexity, allowing even non-technical stakeholders to make changes, while reducing version control and logic errors.
Centralized management
Maintain consistent access control across your apps and services with Cerbos Hub, a home base for policy authoring, iteration and management.
Auditing & reporting
Comprehensive audit trails of policies, permissions, and resource access helps to proactively address security and compliance needs.
Advanced observability
Gain unparalleled insights into your authorization processes with Cerbos, ensuring transparency, efficiency, and security at every step.
Boundless scalability
Cerbos is designed to grow with your organization, no matter how your application evolves.
How Cerbos supports high-security requirements
Compliance assurance
Cerbos is ideal for environments with strict compliance requirements such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
Private by design
Cerbos supports high security use cases including air-gapped deployments and Zero Trust architectures.
No lock-in
Maintain full control over where policies are stored and deployed, ensuring independence and portability.
Steps to ironclad, compliant access management
#1
Capture business requirements
Gather requirements from across your business for what the premissioning logic should be in the application.
#2
Define policies
Based upon your business logic, define policies which implement the rules, checking roles and conditions for each resource kind in the application.
#3
Implement checks
Work with your development team to add in the permission checks - this only has to be done once!
#4
Iterate
As requirements evolve, introduce new policies and conditions in Cerbos without changing application code.
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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