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Authorization for non-human identities with Cerbos

Secure every AI agent, workload identity, service, and API client in your ecosystem with scalable, policy-driven authorization.

Trusted by the development community

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
An employee experience that people love.
Enabling all healthcare stakeholders to easily share information and work together.
The leading solution for smart access management.
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
An employee experience that people love.
Enabling all healthcare stakeholders to easily share information and work together.
The leading solution for smart access management.
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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What are non-human identities?

Service-to-service calls, API clients, AI agents, bots — all act as independent workloads with their own identities. Like human users, they need proper authorization to access data & resources.

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Why is securing NHIs important?

Over-privileged services, unauthorized access to sensitive data, breaches, data leaks, and compliance violations can all stem from improperly managed NHIs. Don't ignore these critical security risks.

How to secure non-human identities with Cerbos

1.

Issue a unique identity to each workload or service, which will be used for authorizing requests.

2.

Create policies that leverage these non-human identity attributes to evaluate whether a request should be allowed.

3.

Deploy Cerbos in your architecture. Each deployment keeps policies synchronized across environments, ensuring every decision is consistent and up to date.

4.

Make authorization requests against the local PDP with the identity, resource and actions attempted. Cerbos evaluates the policies, and creates an audit log entry.

See how it works

Seamlessly fits into your existing architecture

SDKs for every need

With SDKs for the most popular languages and a simple API for everything else, Cerbos works with any software.

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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Securing non-human identities with Cerbos

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Powerful ABAC, RBAC and PBAC for your non-human identities.

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Centralized policy management across all identity types.

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Dynamic policy adjustments enabling teams to be responsive to a changing security model.

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Scalable secure architectures - built with zero-trust in mind.

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Auditable policy definitions and decisions in a single workflow, enabling compliance.

Secure your NHI

Make sure non-human identities are securely authorized. With Cerbos, you get centralized, scalable, and future-proof authorization - without adding complexity.

What our users say

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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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