Stay secure and audit-ready as AI enters production
Authorization for security leaders at regulated industries.
Security
Engineering
Compliance
Reduce hidden access risk
Remove fragmented, in-code authorization that creates blind spots and over-privileged access.
Control authorization logic
Define, approve, and update authorization policies in one place for users, services, and AI agents.
Know your AI blast radius
What can this AI agent access right now? Get a clear answer in seconds during incidents or regulatory deadlines.
“In fintech, you’ve got to track and enforce who can access data and when. If you don’t do this correctly, you potentially open up unauthorized access.”
Edgar Rivera, CTO
How authorization becomes your audit risk
Most enterprises can't answer the fundamental security question: "Who can access what, why, and when?".
Decision evidence is missing
Auditors demand proof of control across your systems. Without centralized evidence, compliance reviews fail and regulators issue fines.
Authorization gaps hide in your stack
One overlooked access path can become a breach that exposes customer data, triggers GDPR notifications, and damages your reputation.
Incident response stalls without visibility
When a breach happens, you can't quickly answer "What could this account access?" You miss the 48-hour notification window and regulators get involved.
Cerbos centralizes authorization and enforces Zero Trust
Cerbos consolidates fragmented authorization across your stack, giving you centralized control, real-time visibility, and decision-level proof for every access decision - human or AI.
Enforce the same authorization logic consistently across apps, APIs, services, non human identities, and AI workflows.
How Cerbos works
Fine grained, contextual, and continuous authorization for every layer of the software you build.
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Your security stack has holes. Do you know where they are?
Applying aviation safety principles to Zero Trust Architecture.
Access control for every use case
AI authorization
Enterprise app 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 Utility Warehouse achieved continuous compliance across thousands of services and millions of NHIs with Cerbos.
SOC 2 & ISO audit-ready
AI agents secured
Threat detection
“We can trace every permission, investigate suspicious behavior, and answer questions about who did what, when, and why. We’ve gone from guesswork to forensic-level auditing across humans, machines, and everything in between.”
Rob Crowe
Principal Engineer, Utility Warehouse
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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.