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Policies that keep up with requirements

Define and evolve complex roles and permissions as business needs change without requiring further developer time.

Policies that keep up with requirements

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.

Cerbos overview

Learn how Cerbos adds declarative access control to your application in minutes.

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Why Cerbos?

Cerbos makes it possible to quickly adapt to ever-evolving security requirements with flexible tooling that seamlessly integrates with your workflow to iterate on authorization policies in real-time.

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Agile

Define, evolve, and roll out complex policies without requiring a development cycle.

CI/CD
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Enterprise ready

Meet each of your enterprise customers’ organizational requirements with ease.

Enterprise ready
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Centralized management

Streamline policy authoring, iteration and management with Cerbos Hub, ensuring consistent permissions across applications.

Centralized management
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Auditing & reporting

Quickly diagnose access issues, understand user behavior, and make data-driven decisions to enhance your product.

Audit logs

How Cerbos helps you streamline authorization management

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Advanced observability

Gain insights into your authorization processes and decisions.

Advanced observability
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Human readable policies

Implement and update authorization policies with low-code, human-readable configuration.

Human readable authorization
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Testing and verification

Ensure the reliability of your authorization policies with built-in testing capabilities.

Testable authorization
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Audit logs

Automated audit logs make it easy troubleshoot permissions issues and investigate errors.

Audit logs

Simple steps to more flexible, low-maintenance authorization

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Capture business requirements

Gather requirements from across your business for what the premissioning logic should be in the application.

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Define policies

Based upon your business logic, define policies which implement the rules, checking roles and conditions for each resource kind in the application.

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Implement checks

Work with your development team to add in the permission checks - this only has to be done once!

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Iterate

As requirements evolve, introduce new policies and conditions in Cerbos without changing application code.

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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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