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Fine-grained access control in days not months

Externalized, policy-based, runtime authorization for your applications.

Join hundreds of leading companies using Cerbos

The world's leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.
Utility Warehouse synchronizes authorization across 4,500 services
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.
The number 1 company in Italy to buy and sell.
Enhancing and accelerating the software development lifecycle.
The leading European analyst firm in identity and access management.
Modern and digital survey solutions for companies.
NTWRK makes a complex access control system easy to manage with Cerbos
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.
Human Managed creates a future-proof ABAC engine with Cerbos
The fastest development platform.
The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.
One of the world's fastest-growing global technology services provider.
9fin modifies product packaging in 10 minutes
Cerbos helps Salesroom save over $1MM worth of developer time
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.
Nook onboards 3x more users by implementing granular roles and permissions
A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Debite accelerates compliance certification and ships products faster
Supy offers dynamic role management to their clients with Cerbos
Loop secures air-gapped cash deposit machines with Cerbos
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.
Utility Warehouse synchronizes authorization across 4,500 services
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.
The number 1 company in Italy to buy and sell.
Enhancing and accelerating the software development lifecycle.
The leading European analyst firm in identity and access management.
Modern and digital survey solutions for companies.
NTWRK makes a complex access control system easy to manage with Cerbos
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.
Human Managed creates a future-proof ABAC engine with Cerbos
The fastest development platform.
The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.
One of the world's fastest-growing global technology services provider.
9fin modifies product packaging in 10 minutes
Cerbos helps Salesroom save over $1MM worth of developer time
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.
Nook onboards 3x more users by implementing granular roles and permissions
A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Debite accelerates compliance certification and ships products faster
Supy offers dynamic role management to their clients with Cerbos
Loop secures air-gapped cash deposit machines with Cerbos
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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Easily implement, manage, and audit fine-grained access control

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Make roles and permissions an asset, not a chore

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Faster app development

Externalize authorization and prioritize your app’s core functionalities.

Leverage a plug-and-play, API-based approach, designed to integrate with your existing systems and accelerate development, saving you months of implementation time.

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Flexible to changing requirements

Adapt to evolving business needs and regulatory requirements with policy-based authorization.

Centralized management which integrates into governance frameworks, enabling changes without compromising compliance.

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Increased security at scale

Ensure least-privilege access across all apps and services in your architecture.

Implement fine-grained, zero trust runtime access controls to protect your data and systems from evolving threats at runtime.

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Centralized management, decentralized decisioning

Define RBAC and ABAC policies in a single source of truth.

Manage, govern and audit access control from a central Policy Administration Point.

Deploy distributed Policy Decision Points (PDP) locally alongside applications and services for local decisioning at runtime

External authorization made easy in 3 steps

#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
} 

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After

#2

Define the RBAC and ABAC rules in standardized policies, and manage policy decisions points from a central policy administration hub.

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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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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.

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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.

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Beyond RBAC/ABAC

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

Iterate with ease

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Human-readable

Manage policies in configuration instead of code.

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Policy Playground
NEW FEATURES

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

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GitOps testing

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

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Stateless and scalable

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

Deploy without risk

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Audit trails

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

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Coordinated rollout and monitoring

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

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Low-latency

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

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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.

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Product Managers

Define and evolve complex policies without requiring further developer time.

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Security teams

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

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Architects

Design a truly zero trust application architecture with externalized authorization.

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!"

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Valor Software
JWT
Auth0
AWS Cognito
Okta
FusionAuth
Magic
WorkOS
Clerk
Stytch

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Cerbos Policy Decision Point

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Playground
NEW FEATURES

Prototype policies in your browser right now

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Docs

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Success stories

Stories of Cerbos in production

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