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Cerbos Hub: Enterprise authorization management

A policy administration and management platform for externalized authorization

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.

A complete authorization management system for authoring, testing and deploying policy

Author, test, and iterate

Web IDE for building policies

Create policies in YAML with our policy wizard, and use the playground to define, validate, and test authorization rules.

Real-time group collaboration

Pair programmers or different team members to edit and review policies like a Google doc.

Push authorization policy files changes directly from the Playground IDE to your Github repo.

Test-driven development (TDD)

All tests are executed in the Cerbos Hub CI pipeline before policy is rolled out to PDPs.

Distribution, orchestration and monitoring

Policy testing

A managed CI/CD pipeline builds and tests every new commit to the policy repository following Git-ops principles.

Policy orchestration

Cerbos Hub keeps policies up-to-date by coordinating each new rollout to all PDPs across your infrastructure.

Decision point monitoring

Observability into all deployed PDPs, with instance logs, deployed policy version details and metrics in a single screen.

Authorize anywhere

In your infrastructure

Whether on-premise, cloud, functions, or Kubernetes, Cerbos Hub simplifies testing and distribution keeping policy in sync.

Serverless architectures

Works in Vercel, Netlify, AWS Lambda & CloudFront, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. 

At edge & embedded devices

Pre-compiled libraries provide local execution for edge devices such as security hardware and cameras.

In browser runtime

Make local, in-browser authorization calls for React, Angular, and front-end frameworks, powered by WebAssembly.

Unified audit trail
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Capture every decision

Every decision made by a Cerbos PDP is captured - know exactly which principal, did which action on which resource, and whether it was allowed or not.

Decision lineage

Audit logs provide not just the decision, but also how it was reached. Every record provides the specific policy, version, and releases which was responsible for the decision being made.

Collated across environments

Cerbos Hub collects and aggregates decision logs from every connected PDP, in every environment they are deployed.

Use cases

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Application permissions

Fine grained context aware permissions.

Go beyond roles
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Product packaging

Provide trials, feature bundles and custom packages for customers.

Manage entitlements
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Enterprise ready

Manage complex organizational requirements.

Org permissions
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Multi-tenant SaaS

Support multiple customer environments at scale.

Tailored access

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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