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Authorization decisions are only as good as the data behind them 👉Introducing Cerbos Synapse

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Authorization for enterprise software

Application permissions SaaS multi-tenant access control Per-tenant authorization Authorization for non-human identities Programmatic permission management Product packaging

Authorization for AI systems

Agentic AI authorization MCP server access control RAG authorization Agentic commerce security

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Fintech Insurance Energy and utilities

By business requirement

Zero Trust Compliance and audit logs AI security On-premise and Air gapped RBAC ABAC PBAC

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Translating business requirements to authorization policy How to adopt externalized authorization Securing MCP servers using dynamic authorization 3 most common authorization designs for SaaS products Service to service authorization Filtering data using authorization logic Standardized authorization with AuthZEN Open source access control Best open source auth tools

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, a centrally managed Policy Administration Plane (Cerbos Hub) that coordinates unified policy-based authorization across your architecture, and a built-in data integration and enrichment layer (Cerbos Synapse). Enforce least privilege and maintain full visibility into access decisions with Cerbos authorization.

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