Ship faster without authorization holding you back
Authorization for product leaders who need their teams building features, not permissions.
Product
Engineering
Operations
Ship access logic without code deploys
Update roles, permissions, and tenant-specific rules without waiting on engineering sprints or redeployments.
Support any access model your customers need
RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, multi-tenancy, custom roles - meet enterprise buyer requirements without building from scratch.
Unblock your roadmap from IAM bottlenecks
Stop losing sprints to authorization rework. Cerbos externalizes access control from product code so your team stays focused on what matters.
“Throwing the entire concern of authorization across to Cerbos really did increase my velocity, which in turn increases velocity downstream from me. It has allowed the team to deliver top-tier user experience and concentrate on faster app iterations.”
Steve High, Staff Engineer
How authorization becomes your identity blind spot
You know who your users are. But what can they actually do? The authorization decisions inside your applications are fragmented, hardcoded, and invisible - creating gaps that auditors find and attackers exploit.
Devs are building plumbing, not product
Your engineers are spending weeks, sometimes months, hardcoding roles and permissions instead of shipping the features that differentiate your product.
Every change triggers a permissions rewrite
New feature? New tenant? New capability acquisition? Each one forces your team to refactor authorization, creating hidden rework costs and slowing release cadence.
IAM bottlenecks are delaying your roadmap
Product delays pile up when authorization changes require cross-service refactors, engineering reviews, and full redeployments - for what should be a configuration change.
Stop shipping authorization. Focus on shipping product.
When authorization lives in your code, every permissions change competes with your roadmap. Cerbos moves it to a policy layer. No code deploys, no refactors, no bottlenecks.
Define authorization in policy, not code. Reuse across tenants, AI workflows, and environments. Engineers write enterprise-ready product features; Cerbos handles who can do what.
How Cerbos works
Fine-grained, contextual, and continuous authorization for every layer of the software you build.
Seamless integration
Authorization that fits your stack
Access control for every use case
AI authorization
Enterprise authorization
ABAC
RBAC
ReBAC
PBAC
Runtime
Event-time
Admin-time
Audit-time
Cloud
Self-hosted
On-premise
Air-gapped
Compliance-ready with every decision
SOC 2 & 3
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
GDPR
HIPAA
FedRAMP
NIS2
DORA
How Salesroom saved over $1MM in developer time and shipped faster with Cerbos.
Clean permission logic at scale
Implemented in 3 weeks
Reliable, low-maintenance authorization
“When I did an audit, I found that the cost of managing authorization and authentication in-house over the entire lifespan of the company was in the 7 figures. Cerbos saved that.”
Chuck Hardy
Head of Engineering, Salesroom
Learn more about externalized, centralized authorization
Ebook
How to adopt externalized authorization
Webinar
Scaling authorization logic in a multitenant application
Article
3 most common authorization designs for SaaS products
Guide
Mapping business requirements to authorization policy
Ebook
A guide to multitenant authorization
Article
Framework for evaluating authorization providers and solutions
Ready to stop building authorization and start shipping product?
See how Cerbos takes authorization off your engineering backlog so your team builds what matters.
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What is Cerbos?
Cerbos is an end-to-end enterprise authorization software for Zero Trust environments and AI-powered systems. It enforces fine-grained, contextual, and continuous authorization across apps, APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, services, and workloads.
Cerbos consists of an open-source Policy Decision Point, Enforcement Point integrations, and a centrally managed Policy Administration Plane (Cerbos Hub) that coordinates unified policy-based authorization across your architecture. Enforce least privilege & maintain full visibility into access decisions with Cerbos authorization.