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# Cerbos Blog

Hands-on guides, product updates and perspectives on authorization, identity and security from the Cerbos team. Built for engineers, architects and leaders.

> 492 articles, newest first. Each title links the article's markdown; drop the `.md` for the HTML page.

## 2026 (196)

- [Replacing jump-box privileged access with policy-based authorization at the API gateway](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/privileged-api-access-policy-based-authorization.md) — 2026-11-05 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Most privileged access still runs through a jump box. This guide shows how to replace it for API-shaped work with policy-based authorization, grants bounded by time, endpoint, object and quota, enforced at the gateway, with a decision log for every call. Includes a CEL policy example and where the pattern stops.
- [ISC2 Security Congress 2026: Software supply chain security starts with identity](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/isc2-2026-software-supply-chain-security-identity.md) — 2026-11-04 · Emre Baran · Presentation. Most software supply chain attacks start with an identity that could do too much. Alex Olivier and Vatsal Gupta of Apple walk through a CI/CD breach, scoped OIDC trust policies, segmented pipeline identities, contextual authorization and risk-adaptive access that keeps engineers moving.
- [Cerbos featured in the GigaOm Radar for Security Policy as Code](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-in-gigaom-radar-security-policy-as-code.md) — 2026-11-03 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. Cerbos is featured in the GigaOm Radar for Security Policy as Code. How access rules inside your product get reviewed in pull requests, tested in CI, and logged for audit.
- [Authorize outbound model calls before they leave the network](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorize-outbound-model-calls-before-they-leave-network.md) — 2026-11-02 · Alex Olivier · Guide. An API key is a binary, so it says nothing about what a caller may ask for, what a request may cost, or whether the file an assistant is about to read should leave the network. Covers authorizing outbound LLM calls at the egress point, and what the control misses.
- [Human-in-the-loop approval for AI agents: Cerbos partners with iProov](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/human-in-the-loop-approval-for-ai-agents-cerbos-iproov.md) — 2026-10-29 · Anna Paykina · Announcement, Guide. Human-in-the-loop approval for AI agents, with Cerbos and iProov. How policy checks each agent action, when a named approver confirms it with a live genuine human presence check, which actions should need sign-off, and what goes into your audit trail.
- [Migrating from PlainID to Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/migrating-from-plainid-to-cerbos.md) — 2026-10-28 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. A practical guide to migrating from PlainID to Cerbos. Map PlainID policies, assets and attribute sources to Cerbos, translate a policy with passing tests, replace PDP and Authorizer calls, run both side by side in shadow mode, and cut over one service at a time.
- [Code Story podcast: Alex Olivier on building Cerbos, AI agents, and authorization on every request](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/code-story-podcast-building-cerbos-ai-agents-authorization-every-request.md) — 2026-10-27 · Anna Paykina · Presentation. Alex Olivier on the Code Story podcast, covering how Cerbos started after he rebuilt permissions at several companies, how the user community shaped the product, and why AI agents need access checked on every call, not only at login.
- [PlainID alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/plainid-alternatives.md) — 2026-10-25 · Alex Doukas · Guide. PlainID alternatives for enterprises centralizing authorization. What PlainID does and costs, why teams look elsewhere, which tools on alternatives lists actually replace it, the questions to ask any replacement, and how to switch without a big bang cutover.
- [Cerbos vs PlainID](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-vs-plainid.md) — 2026-10-24 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Cerbos vs PlainID compared for enterprise authorization programs. How each platform handles policy authoring and review at scale, where decisions run, coverage of gateways, data platforms and AI agents, audit evidence, standards and pricing, with a path for moving from PlainID to Cerbos.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.57.0: Presence checks in query plans, smoother store reloads, lighter Cerbos Hub audit log sync](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-57-query-plans-store-reloads-audit-log.md) — 2026-10-23 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.57.0 adds a has operator to query plans so attribute presence checks reach your data layer, keeps large policy stores serving requests during full reloads, and cuts CPU, memory and disk use in Cerbos Hub audit log sync. Includes upgrade notes for query plan handlers.
- [Migrating from Oso to Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/migrating-from-oso-to-cerbos.md) — 2026-10-21 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. A practical guide to migrating from Oso Cloud or the deprecated oso library to Cerbos. Covers the Polar to Cerbos concept mapping, a worked translation with passing tests, moving facts to request attributes or Cerbos Synapse, list filtering with query plans, and proving parity before cutover.
- [How we use Cerbos inside Cerbos: Authorizing MCP tool calls](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-inside-cerbos-mcp-server-authorization.md) — 2026-10-20 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. A real internal MCP server authorization setup, from the team that builds Cerbos. See how we give every tool call a named person, separate the person from the workload acting for them, gate warehouse queries and web access in policy, and ship policy changes through Cerbos Hub without redeploying.
- [Cerbos included in The Forrester Tech Tide™: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-forrester-tech-tide-identity-access-management.md) — 2026-10-16 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. Cerbos is included in The Forrester Tech Tide™: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2026. Why the access rules inside your applications belong under identity governance, and a quick check to see where yours live.
- [AI coding agent authorization should not depend on who runs it](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ai-coding-agent-authorization-should-not-depend-on-who-runs-it.md) — 2026-10-15 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Coding agent permissions set by an approval prompt belong to one developer, on one machine, until someone turns the prompts off. Covers AI coding agent authorization decided centrally instead, what the COAZ draft formalizes, shell escapes a hook never sees, and the missing approval path.
- [What is AIAM? AI identity and access management explained](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/aiam-ai-identity-and-access-management.md) — 2026-10-13 · Anna Paykina · Guide. AIAM is IAM for AI agents. What it covers, why IAM built for humans breaks for agents, and why identity is the input and authorization is the enforcement.
- [SoftwarePlaza podcast: Emre Baran on deterministic authorization for probabilistic AI agents](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/software-plaza-podcast-deterministic-authorization-for-probabilistic-ai-agents.md) — 2026-10-11 · Anna Paykina · Presentation. Emre Baran on the SoftwarePlaza podcast, covering why if-then-else permission checks break in microservices, an approval policy with limits by seniority and region, the checks an AI agent request should pass, and a refund policy that stops prompt injection.
- [Cerbos vs Oso](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-vs-oso.md) — 2026-10-09 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Comparing Cerbos and Oso? This guide covers where authorization data lives, where decisions run, policy language, RBAC, ABAC and relationship handling, list filtering, audit evidence and pricing, with an honest view of when Oso Cloud still fits and when Cerbos is the better choice.
- [Best IAM solutions for enterprises in 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-iam-solutions-for-enterprises.md) — 2026-10-08 · Emre Baran · Guide. The best IAM solutions for enterprises, broken down by domain. Access management, identity governance, privileged access, machine identity, and authorization, with the notable vendors in each and how to choose, including the fine-grained authorization layer most enterprise identity programs leave hardcoded.
- [Application Security Weekly podcast: Alex Olivier on AuthZEN, agent intent and runtime authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/application-security-weekly-authzen-agent-intent-runtime-authorization.md) — 2026-10-08 · Anna Paykina · Presentation. Alex Olivier on Application Security Weekly, covering how AuthZEN standardizes authorization requests, why agent intent should be an attribute rather than an LLM guess, a policy that stops a prompt-injected agent emailing data out, and where LLMs belong in authorization.
- [Who owns authorization in a large engineering organization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/who-owns-authorization-in-large-engineering-organization.md) — 2026-10-07 · Anna Paykina · Guide. A guide to authorization governance across teams. Covers Conway's law and IAM silos, the incident and cloud-cost price of an unowned decision, the layered ownership split the analyst frameworks converge on, and how to start - a layer-by-layer template for deciding who owns what.
- [Migrating from OpenFGA to Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/migrating-from-openfga-to-cerbos.md) — 2026-10-06 · Alex Olivier · Guide. How to move fine-grained authorization from OpenFGA to Cerbos, with a concept mapping table, a nested folder model translated into tested policies, Synapse for data at decision time, the code changes for checks and lists, and a shadow mode plan.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.56.0: Rule table observability, and Cerbos Hub audit log targeting](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-56-rule-table-observability-cerbos-hub-audit-log-targeting.md) — 2026-10-06 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.56.0 makes store reloads confirm that policies compiled, adds a rule table refresh metric and Cerbos Hub audit log targeting, and tightens policy validation and matching.
- [OpenFGA alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/openfga-alternatives.md) — 2026-10-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A practical guide to OpenFGA alternatives, covering who should move now and who can wait, criteria for relationships, attributes, list filtering and audit, the main categories of alternative, and a shadow mode path off OpenFGA without a big bang cutover.
- [ZITADEL alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/zitadel-alternatives.md) — 2026-10-05 · S. B. Writer · Guide. ZITADEL alternatives compared by the reason you are leaving, from the AGPL license and free tier limits to operations and tenancy fit. Covers Keycloak, Authentik, Authelia, Ory, and managed options, and how to tell whether permissions, not the identity provider, are the layer that is failing
- [Cerbos vs OpenFGA](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-vs-openfga.md) — 2026-10-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Cerbos vs OpenFGA compared for teams choosing fine-grained authorization. Where relationship data lives and who keeps it in sync, how attribute rules and nested folders are written, listing what a user can see, audit evidence, gateways and AI agents, AuthZEN and pricing for Auth0 FGA.
- [Cerbos included in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Policy Based Access Management](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-included-inkuppinger-cole-leadership-compass-policy-based-access-management.md) — 2026-10-04 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. Cerbos is included as a vendor in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Policy Based Access Management, July 2025\. A short read on what sends teams to policy based access management, the two questions worth comparing vendors on, and how to test the model with one of your own access rules.
- [Migrating from Axiomatics to Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/migrating-from-axiomatics-to-cerbos.md) — 2026-10-02 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A practical guide to migrating from Axiomatics to Cerbos. Map XACML and ALFA concepts and every combining algorithm to Cerbos, translate a rule with passing tests, move attribute connectors to Cerbos Synapse, turn obligations into outputs, run both in shadow mode and cut over one service at a time.
- [Hand the application a query filter, not a per row authorization decision](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/hand-the-application-a-query-filter.md) — 2026-10-01 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Per record authorization breaks when an application renders a list. This guide covers asking the policy engine what a user can see, turning a query plan into a database predicate, where AuthZEN search endpoints fit, and why translating to SQL, ORM or vector filters belongs in one place.
- [Cerbos vs Axiomatics](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-vs-axiomatics.md) — 2026-09-29 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Cerbos vs Axiomatics side by side, from policy language and testing to attribute connectors, reverse queries, obligations, deployment, standards and cost, with a path for moving an XACML estate to Cerbos one service at a time.
- [Cerbos named a Sample Vendor for authorization and entitlement in the Gartner® Agentic AI Trust Fabric for Secure Control and Scale of Agentic AI in CSPs](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-authorization-entitlement-gartner-agentic-ai-trust-fabric-for-secure-control-and-scale-of-agentic-ai-csps.md) — 2026-09-26 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. Cerbos is named a Sample Vendor for authorization and entitlement in Gartner® research on agentic AI for CSPs. How telecom operators can check every AI agent action against the person it acts for, and keep evidence of each decision.
- [Read authorization attributes from the database, not a copy](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/read-authorization-attributes-from-the-database.md) — 2026-09-25 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Authorization attributes like plan tier, team and clearance already live in a database. How Cerbos Synapse fetches them at decision time with a SQL data source and a Starlark proxy extension, how to set cache TTL per attribute, and how checks fail closed when the database is unreachable.
- [Gluu vs Keycloak](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/gluu-vs-keycloak.md) — 2026-09-21 · S. B. Writer · Guide. A current comparison of Gluu and Keycloak for identity teams, covering the Janssen Project and Flex split, Keycloak's CNCF position, and where each project's authorization engine runs out of room.
- [Kafka topic authorization belongs in your policy set, not in a per cluster ACL list](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/kafka-topic-authorization-belongs-in-policy-set.md) — 2026-09-18 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Guide. Kafka ACLs accumulate per cluster. This guide covers how Kafka's pluggable authorizer hands topic access decisions to an external policy engine, how ACL bindings map onto resource policies, caching and fail closed tradeoffs on the broker hot path, and what moves topic access into one audited policy set.
- [Cerbos named a Sample Vendor for AuthZEN in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Digital Identity, 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-named-sample-vendor-authzen-gartner-hype-cycle-for-digital-identity.md) — 2026-09-16 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2026 includes AuthZEN as a category, with Cerbos named as a Sample Vendor. We cover what the OpenID AuthZEN standard does, why interoperable authorization matters as AI agents spread, and where Cerbos fits.
- [Rich Authorization Requests (RAR) for agent tokens](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/rich-authorization-requests-agent-tokens.md) — 2026-09-16 · Emre Baran · Guide. OAuth scopes can say read the profile, not transfer 45 euros to this merchant. Here is how Rich Authorization Requests express precise, per-hop grants for AI agents.
- [The Cerbos PDP dashboard is now on Grafana Cloud](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-dashboard-on-grafana-cloud.md) — 2026-09-15 · Anna Paykina · Guide, Engineering. The Cerbos PDP dashboard is now on the Grafana Cloud dashboards site. Import it by ID, point it at your Prometheus data source, and every instance in your fleet is on one screen, from health and loaded policy count down to latency percentiles.
- [Oso alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/oso-alternatives.md) — 2026-09-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Oso alternatives for teams on Oso Cloud or the deprecated oso library. Covers whether Oso Cloud is shutting down, eight questions to ask any replacement, relationship graph databases versus policy decision points, where Cerbos fits and where it does not, and a safe switching pattern.
- [Axiomatics alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/axiomatics-alternatives.md) — 2026-09-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Axiomatics alternatives for teams that want policy any engineer or reviewer can read, tests on every change, one policy set and one audit trail for gateways and AI agents, a hosted or on-premise control plane, and published pricing. Plus the alternatives to XACML itself.
- [Best zero trust security tools and solutions for 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-zero-trust-security-tools-solutions.md) — 2026-09-12 · Anna Paykina · Guide. The best zero trust security tools and solutions, broken down by layer. Identity and access management, privileged access, zero trust network access, device trust, authorization and policy enforcement, data protection, and visibility, with the notable tools in each and how to prioritize the layer most stacks leave hardcoded.
- [Why your audit trail breaks at the sub-agent boundary](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/audit-trail-sub-agent-boundary.md) — 2026-09-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. When agent A delegates to agent B, the downstream logs show the service account, not the user. Here is why the audit trail breaks at the sub-agent boundary, and how to fix it.
- [Keycloak vs Ory](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/keycloak-vs-ory.md) — 2026-09-10 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Compare Keycloak and Ory on architecture, login UI, federation and operational load, and see where each one's authorization model stops.
- [LDAP and Active Directory authorization without changing the application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ldap-active-directory-authorization-without-changing-application.md) — 2026-09-09 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. LDAP and Active Directory groups encode the access rules for applications nobody will fund a rewrite for. Covers resolving those groups at the proxy in front of the application, turning them into an input to policy rather than the access model itself, cache staleness, and where boundary enforcement stops.
- [Cerbos Hub has a new interface](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-has-a-new-interface.md) — 2026-09-08 · Alex Olivier · Announcement. Cerbos Hub has a new interface. Dark and light themes that follow your system, an organization and workspace switcher on every screen, more rows per page in policy lists and audit logs, and improved accessibility. Nothing to migrate and no action needed.
- [Identity Week America 2026: Same AI agent authorization problem, different badges](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/identity-week-america-2026.md) — 2026-09-07 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Notes from Identity Week America 2026 in Washington DC, where federal agencies, defense contractors and SaaS teams brought the same AI agent authorization question to the booth. Covers the License to Thrill panel, agent ownership and blast radius, policy based access control at runtime, and why audit is still unsolved.
- [Per-hop PBAC: enforcing scope at every delegation step](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/per-hop-pbac-delegation.md) — 2026-09-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Checking authorization once at the edge leaves every downstream hop unguarded. Here is why agent delegation needs a policy decision at every hop, and how to do it.
- [Best Keycloak alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-keycloak-alternatives.md) — 2026-09-02 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Compare Keycloak alternatives by protocol, deployment model, limitations, and migration path. Covers ZITADEL, Authentik, Authelia, SuperTokens, and Ory Hydra, plus when to keep Keycloak and add Cerbos for fine-grained authorization instead.
- [Best AI agent security and governance tools for 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-ai-agent-security-and-governance-tools.md) — 2026-09-01 · Emre Baran · Guide. The best AI agent security and governance tools, broken down by layer. Prompt security, guardrails, posture and shadow-agent discovery, non-human identity, authorization and access control, data and RAG protection, and runtime monitoring, with the notable tools in each and how to prioritize what to cover first.
- [Multi-hop delegation for AI agents, and how the consent chain gets lost](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/multi-hop-delegation-ai-agents.md) — 2026-08-28 · Alex Olivier · Guide. When agent A delegates to agent B to a tool, the user's consent and identity get lost along the way. Here is how multi-hop delegation should actually work.
- [Kubernetes admission control does not need a second policy language](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/kubernetes-admission-control-does-not-need-a-second-policy-language.md) — 2026-08-27 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Platform teams usually keep two sets of access rules, one for what may be admitted into the cluster and one for what users may do in the applications there. Covers serving the admission webhook from the same policy layer, what a full ruleset looks like, and failure policy trade offs.
- [Not every authorization decision is allow or deny](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/not-every-authorization-decision-is-allow-or-deny.md) — 2026-08-26 · Emre Baran · Guide, Engineering. Not every authorization decision is allow or deny. Some denials are conditional, and the policy can return what would unblock them. Covers Cerbos policy outputs, the conditionNotMet trigger, the AuthZEN ARAP draft profile for requestable denials, and why an approval is an input to a new decision.
- [What is authorization? Types, examples and definitions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-authorization.md) — 2026-08-25 · Omu Inetimi · Guide. Learn what authorization is all about! Explore several key authorization design patterns, how they work, and possible scenarios where they may be implemented. This guide covers RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, DAC, MAC, and ReBAC, how authorization differs from authentication, how it works with tokens and OAuth scopes, real-world examples, and best practices for getting it right.
- [Istio authorization stops at identity, not at what a workload may do](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/istio-authorization-stops-at-identity.md) — 2026-08-24 · Emre Baran · Guide, Engineering. Istio proves which workload is calling with mTLS and SPIFFE, and stops there. This guide covers where AuthorizationPolicy runs out, handing the decision to an external authorizer through the CUSTOM action, running one policy set across north south and east west traffic, and what the extra network hops cost.
- [Stale JWT claims in authorization, and how to look up identity attributes at decision time](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-look-up-identity-attributes-at-decision-time.md) — 2026-08-21 · Alex Olivier · Guide. How to resolve identity attributes at decision time rather than reading stale JWT claims. Covers Envoy verifying the token while a Synapse data source fetches current profile and group data, policies that read attributes rather than claims, per source cache expiry, and failure behavior when the provider is unreachable.
- [Policy-driven MCP routing: enforcing tool gates outside the agent](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/policy-driven-mcp-routing-tool-gating.md) — 2026-08-19 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Telling an agent which tools not to use is a request, not a control. Here is how to gate MCP tool calls with policy enforced outside the agent, at the execution boundary.
- [Full guide to Next.js authorization & authentication](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/next-js-authorization.md) — 2026-08-18 · Bruce Wiggleston · Guide. Next.js has two main patterns of authentication. Meanwhile when it comes to authorization, nothing is as simple as adding Cerbos. Read our full guide.
- [Open source Cerbos vs paid Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/open-source-vs-paid-cerbos.md) — 2026-08-18 · Anna Paykina, Alex Olivier & Emre Baran · Guide. Open source vs paid Cerbos explained. The Apache 2.0 engine is complete and free, running over 2 billion checks a month. See what the commercial platform adds around it, policy distribution, compliance audit, and data enrichment, plus the roughly 19 engineer months it takes to build the equivalent yourself.
- [Delegated authorization: Why acting on behalf of someone else is not a role](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/delegated-authorization.md) — 2026-08-17 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Delegated authorization explained. Why modeling on-behalf-of access as a role loses the subject, the approver and the expiry. Covers the RFC 8693 act claim, delegation versus impersonation, AuthZEN and COAZ, multi-party policy conditions, revocation before expiry, and audit lineage for delegated actions.
- [Migrating from EmpowerID to Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/migrating-from-empowerid-to-cerbos.md) — 2026-08-16 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Migrating from EmpowerID's authorization to Cerbos, one application at a time. What stays in EmpowerID, what moves, how roles and Field Type conditions become Cerbos policy, and how to prove the new decisions match before you cut over.
- [Cerbos included in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on API Security and Management](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-in-kuppinger-cole-leadership-compass-on-api-security-and-management.md) — 2026-08-16 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. Cerbos is included as a vendor in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on API Security and Management. This post explains why API gateway authorization splits between the gateway and the service behind it, how one policy decision point closes the gap, and what AuthZEN, context enrichment and audit records change.
- [MCP server vetting checklist for enterprises](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mcp-server-vetting-checklist.md) — 2026-08-16 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Every MCP server you connect is a third party you have handed an agent a door to. Here is a practical checklist for vetting MCP servers and governing the ones you cannot fully trust.
- [Authorizing MCP tool calls at the gateway or inside the proxy, and what each one stops](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorizing-mcp-tool-calls-at-the-gateway-or-inside-the-proxy.md) — 2026-08-15 · Emre Baran · Guide. Two ways to authorize MCP tool calls, in the request path or inside the proxy, and they stop different things. Covers in-path gateway enforcement against a pre-call hook, why denying a tool and hiding a tool are different security properties, fail closed behavior, and where both shapes stop working.
- [Envoy ext_authz: enforcing one authorization policy at the gateway and in the service](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/envoy-ext-authz-enforcing-one-authorization-policy-at-gateway-in-service.md) — 2026-08-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Envoy external authorization with the ext_authz filter lets the gateway and the service run checks against one policy set. This guide covers the CheckRequest to Cerbos mapping in CEL, policy outputs as request headers, embedded versus external PDP, bypass paths, caching trade offs and what AuthZEN leaves undefined.
- [EmpowerID alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/empowerid-alternatives.md) — 2026-08-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. EmpowerID alternatives and competitors by type, from access management and identity governance to policy engines and authorization platforms, with buying criteria for policy, testing, gateways, AI agents, audit evidence and pricing.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.55.0: Strict evaluation mode, multiple JWTs, and faster conditions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-55-0-strict-evaluation-mode-multiple-jwts-faster-conditions.md) — 2026-08-13 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.55.0 adds strict evaluation mode, which turns runtime errors in policy conditions into explicit denials instead of silent skips. This release also lets auxData carry multiple named JWTs, folds constant expressions at compile time, and upgrades CEL with 21 new expression functions for networking, regex, and sets.
- [What's new in Cerbos Hub: audit log exports and a playground that tells you what's wrong](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-audit-log-exports-and-a-playground-that-tells-you-what-s-wrong.md) — 2026-08-12 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Documentation, Engineering. A rundown of the latest Cerbos Hub updates. Audit log exports you can pull into your own tooling for archiving or compliance, playground compiler errors with line and column detail, schema validation on principal and resource fixtures, and egress IPs for GitHub allow lists.
- [Cerbos vs EmpowerID](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-vs-empowerid.md) — 2026-08-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Comparing Cerbos and EmpowerID by Omada for authorization. How policy is written and tested, where decisions run, what covers gateways, Kafka, Trino and AI agents, what every decision leaves on record, and how each prices.
- [MCP authorization standards: OAuth scopes, AuthZEN, and what's still missing](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mcp-authorization-standards.md) — 2026-08-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. MCP leans on OAuth 2.1 for authentication, but OAuth scopes cannot answer fine-grained tool authorization. Here is what the standards cover, and what AuthZEN adds.
- [Cerbos included in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Generative AI Defense](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-in-kuppinger-cole-leadership-compass-on-generative-ai-defense.md) — 2026-08-10 · Anna Paykina · Announcement. Cerbos is included as a vendor in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Generative AI Defense. Covers where authorization belongs in a generative AI system, why RAG retrieval has to be filtered before the model sees the data, and how every AI agent tool call gets its own decision.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy.md) — 2026-08-09 · Emre Baran · Documentation, Guide. Learn about how to map your business requirements to RBAC and ABAC policies and adopt Cerbos
- [What is an MCP gateway? And where authorization actually fits](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-an-mcp-gateway.md) — 2026-08-08 · Alex Olivier · Guide. An MCP gateway routes and manages traffic to MCP servers, but routing is not authorization. Here is what a gateway does, where the authorization gap is, and how to close it.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for gaming](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-gaming.md) — 2026-08-07 · Norsaed H. S. · Engineering, Guide. Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for gaming, with three worked examples covering player profiles and inventory, virtual asset trading, and moderation actions. Each starts with the business rule and ends with a working Cerbos policy, including derived roles, ABAC conditions, and test cases you can run yourself.
- [Cerbos security and trust: Data handling, certifications, and deployment isolation](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-security-and-trust.md) — 2026-08-06 · Emre Baran · Guide. How Cerbos handles your data, where it lives, and what leaves your network. A security and trust overview for CISOs and security teams evaluating Cerbos, covering the stateless PDP, deployment isolation, local field masking, certifications, penetration testing, and the Cerbos Trust Center.
- [Framework for evaluating authorization providers and solutions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/framework-evaluating-authorization-providers-solutions.md) — 2026-08-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. In this guide, we provide a framework for evaluating authorization providers and solutions, tailored to the priorities of enterprise decision-makers. We cover all the key criteria - from integration and performance to admin experience and compliance, and back them with data, industry research, and success metrics.
- [Best OpenZiti alternatives](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/openziti-alternatives.md) — 2026-08-05 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Picking an OpenZiti alternative depends on the layer you need to replace. Compare ZTNA and overlay networking, self-hosted identity providers, OAuth2 and OIDC token services, and reverse proxy login gateways, plus where Cerbos handles fine-grained authorization once identity and connectivity are already solved.
- [Your IdP proves who an AI agent is. DORA expects you to control what it does](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/dora-control-what-ai-agents-do.md) — 2026-08-03 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Your IdP proves who an AI agent is. DORA also expects you to control what it can do at runtime, which is authorization, not authentication. This guide covers where agents fall into DORA scope, how runtime authorization maps to Article 9 and audit requirements, and the steps to take while agents are still early.
- [Authentik vs Zitadel for authentication](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authentik-vs-zitadel.md) — 2026-07-28 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Compare Authentik and Zitadel for authentication. Decide faster across SSO, MFA, proxy mode, LDAP, multi-tenancy, deployment, operations, and where Cerbos authorization fits.
- [You have Keycloak. What authorization capabilities do you still need?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/you-have-keycloak-what-authorization-capabilities-do-you-still-need.md) — 2026-07-24 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Keycloak authentication and Keycloak SSO handle identity well. Authorization at scale is a different problem. Here's where the gap appears and how to fix it.
- [The kill switch that never got pressed: what the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident tells us about agent authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-kill-switch-that-never-got-pressed-what-the-open-ai-hugging-face-incident-tells-us-about-agent-authorization.md) — 2026-07-22 · Alex Olivier · Engineering. OpenAI's models escaped an eval sandbox and breached Hugging Face. What the incident says about agent kill switches, runtime authorization, and standing access.
- [Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol authorization refusals](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/claude-fable-5-and-gpt-5-6-sol-authorization-refusals.md) — 2026-07-21 · S. B. Writer · Guide. The models that refuse legitimate security work will also run destructive commands without asking. Both are reasons to enforce authorization outside the agent, not in its prompt.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in VSCode](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-vs-code.md) — 2026-07-20 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. A practical guide to writing authorization policies in VSCode using GitHub Copilot agent mode and the Cerbos policy skill. Covers install, the gh skill CLI, chat.agentSkillsLocations, file-scoped *.instructions.md, a typical drafting session, and how validation runs in the integrated terminal.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.54.0: Faster evaluations, lower memory usage, and new store diagnostics](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-54-0-faster-evaluations-lower-memory-usage-and-new-store-diagnostics.md) — 2026-07-20 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.54.0 focuses on performance, cutting steady-state memory and raising throughput. This release adds the new cerbos compile-store command for diagnosing policy stores, clearer error reporting across policies and tests, automatic GOMEMLIMIT from cgroup limits, and better runtime observability.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in Cursor](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-cursor.md) — 2026-07-19 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Cursor's composer makes it a strong fit for authorization policy work. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill in Cursor, describing access rules in plain English, letting the composer pull schemas and derived roles into context, validating against the real compiler in the integrated terminal, and producing a complete policy bundle.
- [Authorization in microservices: Patterns, pitfalls, and how to scale it](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/tips-for-microservices-authorization.md) — 2026-07-15 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Authorization in microservices explained. Why it is harder than a monolith, where it gets enforced, the three patterns for handling authorization data, choosing RBAC or ABAC, service-to-service authorization, and the externalized policy decision point pattern that scales across services without scattered checks or redeploys.
- [Ory vs SuperTokens for authentication](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ory-vs-supertokens.md) — 2026-07-15 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Ory Hydra and SuperTokens solve different authentication problems. Compare OAuth2 and OIDC token infrastructure against fast product login and session handling, and see where Cerbos fits as the authorization layer after authentication.
- [RBAC vs ABAC - Which is better for your use case?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/rbac-vs-abac.md) — 2026-07-13 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A practical RBAC vs ABAC guide covering what each model is, the key differences, whether ABAC is more secure, role explosion, when to use RBAC or ABAC, and how to combine them in one set of policies instead of choosing between them.
- [The incident response workflow that decides how fast you recover](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/incident-response-authorization-workflow.md) — 2026-07-13 · Anna Paykina · Guide. A step-by-step incident response workflow for the authorization layer, from mapping a compromised identity's blast radius to proving containment held. Covers how centralized policy and decision logs compress each phase, what makes the workflow feasible in regulated and air-gapped environments, and how AI agents change the runbook.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in Codex CLI](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-codex-cli.md) — 2026-07-12 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. A practical guide to writing authorization policies in Codex CLI using the Cerbos policy skill. Covers cross-agent installer setup, $cerbos-policy invocation, the /skills list command, a typical drafting session, validation against the real Cerbos compiler in Docker, and composing the skill with AGENTS.md.
- [ABAC examples: Real attribute-based access control policies and use cases](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/abac.md) — 2026-07-10 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A practical guide to attribute-based access control with real ABAC examples and policy code. Covers the four attribute types, industry use cases, how to write your own ABAC policy, the trade-offs, and where ABAC is heading for Zero Trust and AI agents.
- [You have Auth0. What authorization capabilities do you still need?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/you-have-auth0-what-authorization-capabilities-do-you-still-need.md) — 2026-07-10 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Auth0 covers authentication, but authorization capabilities like resource-level ABAC, per-tenant policies, and decision audit logs sit outside its model. This guide covers where Auth0 RBAC and Auth0 FGA stop, five signals you need a dedicated authorization layer, and how to evaluate solutions and run a POC.
- [Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with CircleCI](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-cerbos-policy-deployments-with-circleci.md) — 2026-07-09 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This guide will help you set up a CI/CD pipeline in CircleCI to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
- [Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with Azure DevOps Pipelines](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-cerbos-policy-deployments-with-azure-devops-pipelines.md) — 2026-07-08 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This guide shows you how to set up an Azure DevOps Pipeline to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
- [Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with BitBucket Pipelines](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-cerbos-policy-deployments-with-bitbucket-pipelines.md) — 2026-07-08 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This guide shows you how to set up a BitBucket Pipeline to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically
- [Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with GitLab Runners](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-cerbos-policy-deployments-with-gitlab-runners.md) — 2026-07-08 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This guide shows you how to set up a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
- [What is fine-grained authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-fine-grained-authorization.md) — 2026-07-07 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Fine-grained authorization explained. Learn how fine-grained access control uses attributes and conditions to decide access per resource and action, how it differs from coarse-grained control, the RBAC, ABAC and PBAC models behind it, real use cases, and how to implement it without building your own engine.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in OpenCode](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-open-code.md) — 2026-07-07 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering, Guide. OpenCode is open source, self-hosted, and provider-agnostic, so the whole authorization policy workflow stays inside your security perimeter. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill in OpenCode, drafting policies in plain English, validating against the real Cerbos compiler locally, and pairing the skill with AGENTS.md.
- [Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with Buildkite](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-cerbos-policy-deployments-with-buildkite.md) — 2026-07-07 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This guide will help you set up a CI/CD pipeline in Buildkite to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
- [The authorization POC guide: What to test, who to involve, and how to decide](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-poc-guide.md) — 2026-07-06 · Emre Baran · Guide. Most authorization POCs never reach production. This guide covers all details of a proper authorization proof of concept: scoping to one real service, measurable success criteria, stakeholder involvement, and baselines so the review produces a decision, not a debate.
- [Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with GitHub Actions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-cerbos-policy-deployments-with-github-actions.md) — 2026-07-05 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This guide shows you how to set up a GitHub Actions workflow to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in Pi](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-pi.md) — 2026-07-02 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering, Documentation. Pi is the open-source self-extensible coding agent built around the Agent Skills standard from the start. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill in Pi, invoking it with /skill:cerbos-policy, drafting authorization policies in plain English, and validating against the real Cerbos compiler in Docker.
- [You have Okta. What authorization capabilities do you still need?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/you-have-okta-what-authorization-capabilities-do-you-still-need.md) — 2026-07-01 · Anna Paykina · Guide. You've standardized on Okta SSO for authentication. Here's where Okta falls short on authorization, and how to evaluate dedicated authorization solutions.
- [Mastering hierarchy-based permissions with Cerbos: Policy-defined roles vs. dynamic attributes](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mastering-hierarchy-based-permissions-with-cerbos-policy-defined-roles-vs-dynamic-attributes.md) — 2026-06-30 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Documentation, Engineering. Learn how to handle authorization in applications with hierarchical data. In this post, we explore two approaches to implementing hierarchy-based permissions. Both methods leverage Attribute-Based Access Control.
- [The Cerbos Hub effect matrix: read your authorization policy at a glance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-effect-matrix-read-authorization-policy-at-a-glance.md) — 2026-06-30 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Documentation, Engineering, Guide. See how the Cerbos Hub effect matrix turns authorization policy files into a permissions grid of roles and actions, with allowed, denied, and conditional outcomes. Read what each role can do without parsing raw policy, drill into ABAC conditions, and spot over-permissive wildcard rules in review.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in AWS Kiro](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-aws-kiro.md) — 2026-06-26 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Guide, Documentation. AWS Kiro is spec-driven, which means the access model is captured properly before any YAML gets written. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill in Kiro, the spec-then-policy workflow, how the skill picks up AWS Cognito attributes, and how validation runs against the real Cerbos compiler.
- [5 factors to weigh when building authorization architecture](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/5-factors-to-weigh-when-building-authorization-architecture.md) — 2026-06-25 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A product-creation journey always requires new thinking about a permissions strategy. Learn about the 5 instances when your authorization logic needs to be analyzed, evolved, changed and monitored, as your software product evolves.
- [Fine grained access control: What it actually takes to get it right](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fine-grained-access-control-get-it-right.md) — 2026-06-25 · Anna Paykina · Guide, Engineering. Fine grained access control lets you authorize based on user attributes, resource ownership, and context instead of broad roles. This guide covers RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, PBAC models, embedded vs. externalized authorization, real policy examples, and practical implementation patterns for engineering teams.
- [Identiverse 2026: Agents made authorization the story](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/identiverse-2026.md) — 2026-06-24 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Takeaways from Identiverse 2026, where AI agents pushed authorization to the front. Delegated authorization, the Shared Signals Framework, AuthZEN agent authorization, and why prompts aren't controls. Notes from three AuthZEN sessions and the best talks of the week.
- [Authentication vs Authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authentication-vs-authorization.md) — 2026-06-19 · Omu Inetimi · Engineering, Guide. Authentication vs authorization explained. AuthN verifies who a user is, AuthZ decides what they can do. This guide covers ID and access tokens, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SSO, RBAC and ABAC, the key differences between the two, and the mistakes teams make building them.
- [Agent skill for building Cerbos Synapse extensions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-building-cerbos-synapse-extensions.md) — 2026-06-18 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. A new agent skill that builds Cerbos Synapse extensions for you. Describe what you want to enrich, map, or expose, and it picks the extension kind and runtime, scaffolds the files, wires config, and runs it against a local PDP. Covers CEL, Starlark, and WASM in Go, TypeScript, or Python.
- [Keycloak vs ZITADEL for self hosted IAM](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/keycloak-vs-zitadel.md) — 2026-06-17 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Compare Keycloak and ZITADEL for self hosted IAM. See SSO, MFA, federation, multi-tenancy, operations, authorization limits, and Cerbos fit.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for e-commerce](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-ecommerce.md) — 2026-06-15 · Norsaed H. S. · Engineering, Guide. A practical walkthrough of how e-commerce business rules become authorization policy. Covers customer data access, vendor product management, and order lifecycle control using RBAC, ABAC, and PBAC in Cerbos. Includes derived roles, attribute conditions, time-based rules, and a built-in test framework to verify each policy before production.
- [How to secure microservices without creating a distributed nightmare](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-secure-microservices-without-creating-a-distributed-nightmare.md) — 2026-06-14 · Anna Paykina · Guide. How to secure microservices across five critical layers, from authentication and token propagation to authorization, API gateways, and Zero Trust. Covers common vulnerabilities during monolith-to-microservices migration, how Netflix secured their architecture, and how to enforce consistent access control across distributed services.
- [Governing AI agents at the gateway with Cerbos and agentgateway](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/governing-ai-agents-at-the-gateway-with-cerbos-and-agentgateway.md) — 2026-06-10 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Guide, Documentation. How to govern AI agents at the gateway with agentgateway and Cerbos. This covers the three authorization questions on every agent hop, which model an identity can call, which MCP servers and tools it can open, and what a tool call is actually asking for, all from one policy bundle over Envoy ext_authz.
- [How to secure AI agents and MCP tools at the gateway with LiteLLM and Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/secure-ai-agents-mcp-tools-at-the-gateway-lite-llm-cerbos.md) — 2026-06-09 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Add policy-based authorization to a LiteLLM AI gateway with Cerbos. Control which models each user or agent can call, hide tools the caller shouldn't see, and bind MCP tool arguments to caller attributes, all enforced at the proxy with no application changes.
- [Introducing Cerbos Hub Insights: A live view of what your authorization layer is doing](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-insights-live-view-of-what-your-authorization-layer-is-doing.md) — 2026-06-08 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Announcement. Cerbos Hub Insights aggregates the decisions your PDPs make into charts and rankings, so patterns like a spike in denials become obvious without scrolling the audit log. Track allows, denies, and active principals over time, built entirely from audit data you already send to Cerbos Hub.
- [AuthZEN wins Outstanding Project Recognition at EIC 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/auth-zen-wins-outstanding-project-recognition-at-eic-2026.md) — 2026-06-05 · Emre Baran · Announcement. OpenID AuthZEN won the Outstanding Project Recognition award at EIC 2026, with Cerbos CPO Alex Olivier co-chairing the working group. Here's what the interoperability standard means for authorization, why it matters as AI agents act on behalf of users, and how Cerbos implements it.
- [Choosing the right deployment model for enterprise authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/choosing-the-right-deployment-model-for-enterprise-authorization.md) — 2026-06-05 · Emre Baran · Guide. Understand the deployment models available for your authorization system - cloud hosted, self hosted, on premise. See what drives the choice between them, and what each one means for your team in practice.
- [The Meta AI hack shows why agents shouldn't decide access](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/meta-ai-hack-shows-why-agents-shouldnt-decide-access.md) — 2026-06-03 · Emre Baran · Guide. AI agent authorization broke wide open when hackers talked Meta's support chatbot into resetting Instagram passwords. This breaks down the confused deputy problem, why authentication alone doesn't fix it, and why access decisions belong in externalized authorization the agent can't argue its way past.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in Claude Code](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-claude-code.md) — 2026-06-02 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Claude Code lets engineers draft authorization policies in plain English, right in the terminal. This guide covers installing the policy skill through the plugin marketplace, invoking it with /cerbos-policy, what a session looks like, validating against the real Cerbos compiler in Docker, and where human review still matters.
- [Authorization for AI agents: What to build before the EU AI Act deadline](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-for-ai-agents-what-to-build-before-eu-ai-act-deadline.md) — 2026-06-01 · Alex Olivier · Guide. What runtime policy at the orchestration layer means, why the agent-to-tool layer is the missing category in agentic AI governance, and which EU AI Act articles actually apply to infrastructure vendors. Practical steps for CTOs and security leads on inventorying agents, sponsoring identities, and externalizing authorization.
- [Authentik vs Keycloak: Self-hosted IdP comparison](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authentik-vs-keycloak-selfhosted-idp-comparison.md) — 2026-05-28 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Compare Authentik and Keycloak for self-hosted IAM. See SSO, MFA, protocol support, operations, authorization limits, and where Cerbos fits.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for automotive](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-automotive.md) — 2026-05-27 · H.A. Writer · Engineering, Guide. Authorization in enterprise automotive platforms covers more than roles. This guide explains why RBAC fails for software-defined vehicles, how ABAC and policy-as-code govern OTA updates, ECU diagnostics, and supplier access, and how Cerbos handles workforce, partner, customer, and non-human identities across the vehicle lifecycle.
- [Fine-grained authorization for AI gateways](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fine-grained-authorization-for-ai-gateways.md) — 2026-05-26 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Fine-grained authorization for AI gateways, explained. Why gateway authentication stops short of access control, how attribute-based policies govern model calls, tool invocations, MCP methods, and agent-to-agent delegation, and how Cerbos provides the runtime policy layer for every AI request.
- [EIC 2026: Stop counting agents, protect what they can touch](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/eic-2026-protect-what-agents-can-touch.md) — 2026-05-26 · Alex Olivier · Guide. AI agent authorization was the question every IAM team brought to EIC 2026. Inventory tells you which agents exist. It does not decide whether an agent should move money, call a tool, or act through a delegated user. Notes on the vault, delegation chains, dynamic authorization, and EU AI Act audit.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies in Claude Desktop](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies-in-claude-desktop.md) — 2026-05-25 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Claude Desktop lets product, security, and engineering leads draft Cerbos authorization policies in plain English without writing YAML. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill, connecting your specs via MCP, validating against the real compiler, and producing a complete policy bundle ready for review and PR.
- [Identity security in 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/identity-security.md) — 2026-05-21 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Identity security explained. The pillars most vendors cover (authentication, IGA, PAM, ITDR, ISPM, identity fabric), the shift to machine and AI agent identities, and the runtime authorization layer where most identity security programs still have a blind spot.
- [EIC 2026 takeaways: the identity stack built for humans will not hold up for AI agents](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/eic-identity-stack-built-for-humans-is-not-going-to-hold-up-for-agents.md) — 2026-05-21 · Emre Baran · Guide. The identity stack built for humans does not hold up for AI agents and ephemeral workloads. Takeaways from EIC 2026 on signal-driven authorization, action-based provisioning, delegation chains, token issuer risk, and the four questions every CISO should ask about agent identity in the next 12 months.
- [Query plan adapter for Elasticsearch (Java)](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/query-plan-adapter-for-elasticsearch-java.md) — 2026-05-20 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering, Guide. Externalized authorization with Cerbos. Translate policies into native Elasticsearch Query DSL using the PlanResources API. Push access control to the database layer, avoid post-fetch filtering, and scale secure search with nested query support and operator overrides.
- [Already have authentication? Here's the authorization layer you still need.](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/already-have-authentication-heres-the-authorization-layer-you-still-need.md) — 2026-05-20 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Identity providers cover authentication, not fine-grained access control. See the authorization gaps they leave and how to evaluate a solution.
- [How much does it cost to build authorization in-house?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-authorization-in-house.md) — 2026-05-19 · Emre Baran · Guide. The cost of building authorization in-house often runs into seven figures. This guide breaks down real numbers from Salesroom, Debite, Loop, and 4G Capital, plus the hidden costs of maintenance, compliance, and diverted developer time that most teams forget to estimate upfront.
- [Integrating Cerbos with Kong: A how-to guide for API gateway authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/kong-api-gateway-authorization.md) — 2026-05-19 · Tania Duggal · Guide, Engineering. Learn how to integrate Cerbos with Kong to offload authorization decisions from your services and centralize policy enforcement at the gateway. This hands-on guide walks through a real setup using Docker Compose, custom plugins, and fine-grained access policies to secure every API request.
- [Tokens are authorization decisions: a guide to policy-driven token issuance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/tokens-are-authorization-decisions-a-guide-to-policy-driven-token-issuance.md) — 2026-05-19 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Tokens are authorization decisions, and most identity teams don't manage them like one. This article explains policy-driven token issuance, the three patterns Gartner calls Authorization Management Platforms, what AuthZEN changes, and how to govern AI agent tokens without hardcoding logic into the IdP.
- [Query plan adapter for Convex](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/query-plan-adapter-for-convex.md) — 2026-05-18 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering, Guide. Externalized authorization with Cerbos moves access control into policy files and pushes filtering to the data layer. Learn how the PlanResources API and a new Convex adapter generate efficient, secure queries without row-by-row checks.
- [What is a Runtime Authorization Platform](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-a-runtime-authorization-platform.md) — 2026-05-18 · Emre Baran · Guide. Runtime Authorization Platforms explained. What runtime authorization actually means, how it differs from admin-time and event-time controls, why attacks land on the runtime layer, and what separates a real runtime platform from a policy engine. Covers architecture, deployment shapes, AuthZEN, and continuous evaluation.
- [It's a dimmer switch, not a kill switch. How CISOs are rethinking AI agent governance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/dimmer-switch-not-a-kill-switch-rethinking-ai-agent-governance.md) — 2026-05-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. AI agent drift needs more than a kill switch. CISOs and IAM leaders in regulated industries are moving to a dimmer switch model, fine-grained runtime authorization that narrows agent access without breaking the workflow, with a complete audit trail of every decision and policy change.
- [Query plan adapter for Drizzle ORM](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/query-plan-adapter-for-drizzle-orm.md) — 2026-05-14 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering, Guide. Externalized authorization with Cerbos PlanResources API and Drizzle ORM. Generate efficient, policy-driven SQL filters from query plans. Avoid row-by-row checks, reduce database I/O, and enforce scalable access control at the query layer with @cerbos/orm-drizzle.
- [From maps to bitmaps (and from bitmaps to bitmaps)](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/from-maps-to-bitmaps-and-from-bitmaps-to-bitmaps.md) — 2026-05-13 · Sam Lock · Engineering, Documentation. Inside the Cerbos PDP performance rewrite that took authorization decisions from 43.8 µs to 6.6 µs. This post walks through three iterations of the rule table index, why roaring bitmaps weren't the right fit, and how a custom bitmap with a meta layer beat both the previous index and roaring.
- [Query plan adapter for LangChain.js and ChromaDB](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/query-plan-adapter-for-langchainjs-and-chromadb.md) — 2026-05-12 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering, Guide. Enforce fine-grained authorization in RAG apps with Cerbos and ChromaDB. Learn how @cerbos/langchain-chromadb converts Cerbos query plans into ChromaDB filters, so vector search respects access policies at retrieval time and prevents unauthorized data from reaching your LLM.
- [AuthZEN, Shared Signals, SCIM Events, IPSIE: Notes from the OpenID Enterprise Panel](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authzen-shared-signals-scim-events-ipsie.md) — 2026-05-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Notes from the OpenID Foundation enterprise panel on how Shared Signals, AuthZEN, SCIM Events and IPSIE fit as a stack, the missing reference architectures between specs, and where AI agents land against existing OAuth and OIDC primitives. With Atul Tulshibagwale, Mike Kiser, Dick Hardt and Alex Olivier.
- [How do you update authorization policies without redeploying your application?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/update-authorization-policies-without-redeploying-your-application.md) — 2026-05-08 · Emre Baran · Guide. Authorization policy updates without redeployment, explained. Cerbos separates policy from application code so permission changes become configuration updates, not code changes. Covers YAML policies, Cerbos Hub distribution, Git-based workflows, and customer results from 4G Capital, Human Managed, 9fin, BarrierSystems, and Utility Warehouse.
- [IIW42 recap: Where agent authorization got real](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/iiw42-recap-agent-authorization-got-real.md) — 2026-05-07 · Alex Olivier · Guide. IIW42 was the unconference where agent authorization stopped being theoretical. This recap covers what changed in agent identity, why the principal model is breaking, intent drift, the cross-trust-domain problem, and why identity matters more for accountability than for the policy decision itself.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.52.0/v0.53.0: Engine performance, security hardening, and CEL path functions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-52-v0-53-engine-performance-security-hardening-and-cel-path-functions.md) — 2026-05-06 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.52.0 and v0.53.0 bring engine performance optimizations, new CEL path functions, and tighter JWT security. This release recap covers faster decision generation, the new cerbosctl hub auth command, audit log version metadata, query plan scope fixes, and the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions 1.39.0 breaking change.
- [Authorization Management Platforms: what they do, how they work, and where they fit](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-management-platforms.md) — 2026-05-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Authorization Management Platforms. What an AMP actually does, the PAP, PDP, PEP, PIP and POP architecture, integration modes, and where the category fits alongside IGA, PAM, and access management in the identity stack.
- [PocketOS AI coding agent deleted a production database in 9 seconds](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ai-coding-agent-deleted-a-production-database-in-9-seconds.md) — 2026-05-01 · Emre Baran · Guide. An AI coding agent on Cursor and Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS's production database in nine seconds, backups included. The fix isn't a smarter model. It's authorization that lives outside the agent. Here's what would have stopped it, and the authorization policy you can ship this week.
- [Non-Human Identity management still has a blind spot](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/non-human-identity-management-has-a-blind-spot.md) — 2026-04-30 · Anna Paykina · Guide, Engineering. Non-human identity management today focuses on discovery, inventory, and credential rotation. This guide covers why runtime authorization is the missing layer, how overprivileged NHIs create risk at scale, and how to enforce fine-grained, policy-based access control for every service-to-service request.
- [Supabase alternative in 2026: Best open source auth options](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/supabase-alternative-best-open-source-auth-options.md) — 2026-04-28 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Compare open source Supabase Auth alternatives for authentication, identity, and authorization. See where SuperTokens, ZITADEL, Authentik, Keycloak, Hanko, and Cerbos PDP fit.
- [Benefits of on-premise authorization: Why enterprises are moving toward self-hosted](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/benefits-of-on-premise-authorization.md) — 2026-04-24 · Emre Baran · Guide. On-premise authorization gives security teams full control over policies, decision logs, and audit trails without data leaving the perimeter. This guide covers why regulated enterprises are moving to self-hosted, when cloud-hosted still makes sense, and what to look for in a deployment-flexible authorization platform.
- [Authorization policies: How to write, test, and validate them (faster with AI)](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-policies-how-to-write-test-validate-with-ai-help.md) — 2026-04-22 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Writing authorization policies shouldn't take a week. This practical guide covers how to write, structure, and test authorization policies at enterprise scale, the common mistakes that ship security holes, and how to use an AI coding agent to draft full policy bundles while you handle the judgment calls.
- [Agent skill for writing authorization policies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/agent-skill-for-writing-authorization-policies.md) — 2026-04-21 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Writing authorization policies from a blank file is slow. The Cerbos agent skill handles the drafting for you, asking clarifying questions in plain English before generating a full Cerbos policy bundle with schemas, roles, resource policies, and tests. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more.
- [Why centralized authorization governance reduces incident response time](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/centralized-authorization-governance-reduces-incident-response-time.md) — 2026-04-17 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Centralized authorization governance gives security leaders instant visibility into every access decision during a breach. This article covers why fragmented access control stalls incident response, how AI agents expand the authorization surface, CISO personal liability under SEC rules, and how to evaluate solutions.
- [OPA alternative](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/opa-alternative.md) — 2026-04-16 · Alex Olivier · Guide. This article examines why Cerbos stands out as the best alternative to Styra and OPA for authorization needs. Comparison is based on policy language, deployment, performance, observability, DX and scalability.
- [Why AI agents make authorization a right now problem](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ai-agents-make-authorization-a-right-now-problem.md) — 2026-04-15 · Emre Baran · Guide. AI agents don't create new vulnerabilities. They find the authorization ones you already had, faster and at scale. Why Gartner's new Authorization Management Platform category matters, what deterministic policy enforcement looks like, and how to close the gaps before the next model release finds them.
- [Implement authorization and access control in an Express application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/implement-authorization-in-express.md) — 2026-04-14 · Adejoke Haastrup · Guide. Explore importance of roles and permissions in webapps and learn how to use Cerbos authorization to enforce RBAC for a sample LMS implemented in Express and Node.
- [Modernizing legacy application authorization: why it’s your biggest security blind spot](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/modernizing-authorization-for-legacy-applications.md) — 2026-04-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Your legacy applications have the weakest authorization controls and the most sensitive data. Learn how security and identity teams can close the governance gap by adding policy-based authorization, compliance-ready audit trails, and context-aware access decisions at the gateway without modifying the application.
- [How to add authorization to legacy applications without code changes](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/guide-add-authorization-to-legacy-applications-no-code-changes.md) — 2026-04-11 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Learn how to add authorization to legacy applications without modifying a single line of code. This guide covers the gateway pattern with Cerbos Synapse and Envoy, route-level policy enforcement, device posture checks, audit trail coverage, and a phased path from zero visibility to full authorization governance.
- [5 authorization blind spots auditors find, and how to fix them](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/5-authorization-blind-spots-auditors-find-and-how-to-fix-them.md) — 2026-04-10 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A practical guide to the 5 authorization gaps that drive access control audit findings in regulated enterprises. Covers scattered authorization logic, proof of enforcement, role versus permission reviews, non-human identity governance, and AI agent authorization, with concrete steps to fix each one.
- [Row-level security for Apache Trino, powered by Cerbos Synapse](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/row-level-security-for-apache-trino.md) — 2026-04-07 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Add row-level security, column masking, and table-level access control to Apache Trino using Cerbos policies. No Rego, no custom plugins. Covers policy examples, attribute-based filtering from your IdP, per-role masking rules, and compliance audit logging through Cerbos Hub.
- [AI Security Platforms (AISP): What they are, why they matter, and how they work](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ai-security-platforms-aisp-what-they-are.md) — 2026-04-03 · Alex Olivier · Guide. AI Security Platforms (AISP) explained. Learn what AISPs are, why they matter, and how they secure AI agents, LLMs, and workflows against prompt injection, data leakage, and rogue behavior with real-world, technical examples.
- [Top 9 Identity & Access Management (IAM) Tools for 2026](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/identity-and-access-management-tools.md) — 2026-04-02 · Rohit Ghumare · Documentation, Guide. IAM tools are essential for enhancing security, streamlining access management processes, and ensuring compliance in organizations. In this blog, we're going to discuss the top 9 identity and access management (IAM) tools of 2026.
- [Authelia vs Authentik in 2026: Which self-hosted IdP should you choose](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authelia-vs-authentik-2026-idp.md) — 2026-04-01 · S. B. Writer · Guide. Authelia vs Authentik explained: compare a lightweight forward-auth gateway and a full IdP, when to choose each, security notes. This guide covers MFA, SSO, protocol support, deployment trade-offs, CVE track records, and community insights to help you pick the right fit for your stack.
- [Can non-engineers manage authorization policies with Cerbos?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/can-non-engineers-manage-authorization-policies-with-cerbos.md) — 2026-03-29 · Emre Baran · Guide. How non-engineers manage authorization policies with Cerbos. Product managers, security leads, and even end customers can write and update YAML policies thanks to readable syntax and CEL conditions. Includes Supy's self-service custom roles, Human Managed's five-minute policy changes, and the Git review workflow that keeps changes safe.
- [Governing AI coding agents with Cerbos Synapse](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/governing-ai-coding-agents-with-cerbos-synapse.md) — 2026-03-27 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn how to control every tool call with policy, enforce role-based access, and get full audit visibility using Cerbos Synapse
- [Your AI coding agents need guardrails. Not the kind you think](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/your-ai-coding-agents-need-guardrails-not-the-kind-you-think.md) — 2026-03-26 · Alex Olivier · Guide. What can your Claude Code agent do on your machine right now? A deep dive into how to actually control it with real enforcement, policies, and audit visibility.
- [From open-source policy engine to enterprise authorization management platform](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/from-open-source-policy-engine-to-enterprise-authorization-management-platform.md) — 2026-03-24 · Lisa Dziuba · Announcement. From open-source policy engine to complete authorization platform: how Cerbos evolved to cover every access control use case.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for utilities](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-utilities.md) — 2026-03-23 · H.A. Writer · Engineering, Guide. Learn how to write and manage authorization policies for utility companies using PBAC. Compare RBAC vs. ABAC across real-world scenarios like SCADA access control, gas sensor policies, compliance audits, and vendor onboarding - with practical YAML and code examples that reduce downtime, cut costs, and simplify operations.
- [Introducing Cerbos Synapse: unified authorization context and enforcement across your stack](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/introducing-cerbos-synapse-unified-authorization-context-and-enforcement-across-your-stack.md) — 2026-03-20 · Lisa Dziuba, Emre Baran and Alex Olivier · Announcement. Learn how Cerbos Synapse centralizes authorization context and enforcement by assembling identity and resource data and applying consistent policies across your stack
- [The CISO’s guide to implementing Zero Trust: Making adaptive access control work in practice](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cisos-guide-zero-trust-making-adaptive-access-control-work.md) — 2026-03-18 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Learn how to move Zero Trust from buzzword to reality with adaptive authentication, dynamic authorization, and policy-as-code. This guide covers ABAC, contextual access controls, and a practical maturity roadmap to help CISOs operationalize Zero Trust without overhauling their entire stack.
- [Automating IAM for compliance, security, and business agility](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automating-iam-for-compliance-security-and-business-agility.md) — 2026-03-17 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Presentation. Learn how to move IAM beyond manual approvals with just-in-time access and policy-based access control (PBAC). Explore practical strategies for automating identity governance, reducing privilege creep, and aligning with zero trust — plus where AI fits and where it doesn't.
- [Authorization became the main character at Gartner IAM London](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-main-character-at-gartner-iam-london.md) — 2026-03-12 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Insights from the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit EMEA: why authorization is becoming core infrastructure for securing AI agents. Learn how Authorization Management Platforms, the AuthZEN authorization protocol, and policy-based access control are shaping the future of identity and runtime authorization.
- [The privilege creep time bomb: Why timely access review is critical for security leaders](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/privilege-creep-time-bomb-why-timely-access-review-is-critical.md) — 2026-03-10 · Anna Paykina. Privilege creep silently expands access beyond what users need, creating hidden security and compliance risks. Learn how entitlement drift happens, why it’s dangerous, and how to fix it using least privilege, regular access reviews, and dynamic authorization controls to reduce attack surface.
- [How does Cerbos help with compliance audits and certifications?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-does-cerbos-help-with-compliance-audits-and-certifications.md) — 2026-03-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Speed up compliance audits with Cerbos audit logging and policy versioning. Track who accessed what, why decisions were made, and prove authorization controls for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
- [Overcoming IAM blind spots and fragmentation for continuous governance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/overcoming-iam-blind-spots-and-fragmentation-for-continuous-governance.md) — 2026-03-02 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Fragmented IAM creates blind spots, audit chaos, and hidden security risk. Learn why identity sprawl undermines compliance and how continuous governance, policy-as-code, and real-time visibility help CISOs stay audit-ready and reduce identity-related breaches.
- [Zero Trust in cybersecurity - how it works](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/zero-trust-in-cybersecurity-how-it-works.md) — 2026-03-02 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Explore how Zero Trust, layered security, and modern authorization strategies protect systems from breaches. Learn why broken access control remains a top risk and how policy-based access strengthens cloud-native applications.
- [How long does it take to implement Cerbos in production?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-long-to-implement-cerbos-in-production.md) — 2026-02-27 · Emre Baran · Guide. Deploy Cerbos authorization in days. Real production examples show teams reaching production in weeks and running checks in under 10 minutes. Learn implementation timelines, factors affecting speed, and how externalized authorization saves months of engineering time and long-term maintenance costs.
- [When breach becomes personal. CISOs, identity failures and the road to continuous governance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/breach-becomes-personal-ciso-identity-failures-and-continuous-governance.md) — 2026-02-26 · Anna Paykina · Guide. CISOs face personal liability as IAM failures drive costly breaches. Discover how identity governance gaps, privilege creep, deepfake threats, and tool fragmentation create hidden risks - and why continuous, adaptive authorization is essential to building a resilient, audit-ready IAM program in 2026.
- [The four pillars of access control in banking](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-access-control-in-banking.md) — 2026-02-26 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Learn the 4 pillars of access control in banking and how externalized authorization prevents enforcement drift, audit gaps, and unauthorized access at runtime.
- [Policy as Code with Azure API Management and Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/policy-as-code-azure-api-management-cerbos.md) — 2026-02-25 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering, Documentation. Integrate Cerbos with Azure API Management to externalize API authorization. Deploy Cerbos PDP on Azure Container Apps, enforce RBAC and ABAC at the gateway, validate JWTs, and manage versioned policies independently from backend services for scalable, secure access control.
- [AI is turning weak permission management into systemic banking risk](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/ai-is-turning-weak-permission-management-into-systemic-banking-risk.md) — 2026-02-24 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. AI is turning weak permission management into systemic banking risk. Learn how inconsistent authorization and poor traceability increase compliance and incident exposure.
- [Fine-grained authorization for AI agents with Cerbos and Aperture by Tailscale](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fine-grained-authorization-for-ai-agents-with-cerbos-and-aperture-by-tailscale.md) — 2026-02-17 · Alex Olivier · Announcement. Learn how to enforce fine-grained authorization for AI agents and LLM tool calls with Cerbos and Tailscale Aperture.
- [10 fintech security tools to build a compliant and resilient security stack](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/10-fintech-security-tools-to-build-a-compliant-and-resilient-security-stack.md) — 2026-02-16 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Explore 10 fintech security tools for building a compliant and resilient fintech security stack, covering authorization, identity, encryption, fraud detection, and audit controls.
- [Fintech security architectures: where they break and why](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fintech-security-architectures-where-they-break-and-why.md) — 2026-02-13 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Fintech security explained: common structural risks, breach patterns, and practical Zero Trust controls to reduce blast radius across financial systems.
- [MCP authorization: Securing Model Context Protocol servers with fine-grained access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mcp-authorization.md) — 2026-02-13 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn what Model Context Protocol (MCP) is and why securing MCP servers is important. Explore the role of authorization in mitigating MCP security risks, and how to implement dynamic, scalable access control for MCP servers.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.51.0: Policy lifecycle management, audit enhancements, and scopes](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-51-0-policy-lifecycle-management-audit-enhancements-and-scopes.md) — 2026-02-10 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.51.0 introduces new Admin API features for policy lifecycle management, enhanced audit logging with request context, improved test filtering, and critical scope handling fixes to ensure consistent, reliable authorization decisions at scale.
- [Best open source auth tools & auth software for enterprises [2026]](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-open-source-auth-tools-and-software-for-enterprises-2026.md) — 2026-02-07 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Guide on best open source auth tools & software for enterprises. Learn about the top open-source authentication and authorization tools.
- [Cerbos Hub Playground: Recent updates](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-playground-recent-updates.md) — 2026-02-06 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Documentation, Engineering. Explore the latest Cerbos Hub Playground updates, including permission matrices, execution traces, diff views, templates, and sandboxed policy testing to build and debug authorization faster.
- [Announcing ePDP Rules: Fine-grained control for embedded policy bundles](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/epdp-rules-fine-grained-control-for-embedded-policy-bundles.md) — 2026-02-04 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Guide, Engineering. Learn about ePDP Rules that have been released. Take advantage of fine-grained control over bundle composition and distribution. Deploy policies more broadly while maintaining security and performance.
- [What is externalized authorization management (EAM) and its benefits](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/externalized-authorization-management-eam-and-benefits.md) — 2026-02-02 · Alex Olivier · Guide. As systems grow in complexity, managing authorization becomes increasingly challenging. Learn what externalized authorization management (EAM) is, and how it can help.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for aviation](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-aviation.md) — 2026-01-30 · H.A. Writer · Engineering, Guide. A practical guide to authorization in aviation. Learn how to implement RBAC and ABAC to secure flight, maintenance, and ticketing systems with contextual policies, audits, and real-time enforcement.
- [A shared authorization layer that adapts to context](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/shared-authorization-layer-that-adapts-to-context.md) — 2026-01-28 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A shared, context-aware authorization layer prevents policy sprawl, ensures consistent decisions across services, and improves auditability. Learn how externalized, runtime authorization with Cerbos centralizes policy while keeping enforcement local, fast, and reliable.
- [What is authorization as a service?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-as-a-service.md) — 2026-01-26 · Alex Olivier · Guide. 'Authorization as a service’ refers to using a third-party service to take care of an application’s authorization. Read the full definition and learn more here.
- [Cerbos Hub is now available on-premise](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-now-available-on-premise.md) — 2026-01-22 · Lisa Dziuba · Announcement, Guide. Cerbos Hub is now available self hosted and on premise, enabling centralized, auditable authorization for regulated, air-gapped, and private environments without relying on cloud-based control planes.
- [Authorization as a continuously governed control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-as-a-continuously-governed-control.md) — 2026-01-21 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Runtime authorization requires continuous governance without adding latency or risk. Learn how centralized policy, consistent decision logic, and auditable evidence enable scalable, low-latency authorization across humans, services, and AI agents - without becoming a bottleneck.
- [When authorization is static, risk accumulates silently](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/risks-of-static-authorization.md) — 2026-01-16 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Authorization failures happen at decision time. Learn why static access models break in production, create audit blind spots, and let risk accumulate, plus what CISOs need to make authorization observable, explainable, and enforceable at runtime.
- [Year in review: 2025](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/year-in-review-2025.md) — 2026-01-15 · Lisa Dziuba · Announcement. Cerbos’ 2025 year in review. Enterprise adoption, audit-ready runtime authorization, AI and non-human identity security, plus key product releases and industry recognition.
- [OpenID AuthZEN is official, and Cerbos is ready](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/openid-authzen-is-official-cerbos-is-ready.md) — 2026-01-13 · Alex Olivier · Announcement. AuthZEN is now ratified. Learn how this new OpenID standard brings interoperable, fine-grained authorization to modern systems, how it complements OAuth and OIDC, and how Cerbos supports AuthZEN for scalable, externalized authorization.
- [MCP and Zero Trust: Securing AI agents with identity and policy](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mcp-and-zero-trust-securing-ai-agents-with-identity-and-policy.md) — 2026-01-09 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Presentation. MCP and Zero Trust explained: how to secure AI agents with identity, policy, and fine-grained authorization. Learn why MCP changes the security model and how Zero Trust principles apply to agent access, tools, and data.
- [10 critical challenges CISOs face in 2026 and how to solve them](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/10-challenges-cisos-face-and-how-to-solve-them.md) — 2026-01-05 · Emre Baran · Guide. Discover the top 10 challenges CISOs face in 2026, from compliance pressures and Zero Trust complexity to AI-driven threats and talent shortages, with actionable strategies to strengthen security, resilience, and business alignment.

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- [Cerbos PDP v0.50.0: Stricter CEL, more predictable scope plans, and faster evaluation](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-50-0-stricter-cel-predictable-scope-plans-faster-evaluation.md) — 2025-12-22 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.50.0 introduces stricter CEL semantics, predictable scope planning, and faster policy evaluation, helping teams improve authorization accuracy, performance, and operational confidence at scale.
- [Cerbos PDP and Cerbos Hub: Choosing the right setup for your team](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-and-cerbos-hub-choosing-the-right-setup-for-your-team.md) — 2025-12-18 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Compare Cerbos PDP and Cerbos Hub to choose the right authorization setup. Learn when open source is enough and when managed policy authoring, testing, deployment, and audit tooling reduce engineering effort at scale.
- [Gartner IAM Summit 2025: Authorization maturity, AuthZEN momentum, and why identity security is expanding to every workload](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/gartner-iam-summit-2025-authorization-authzen-identity-security-expanding-to-every-workload.md) — 2025-12-15 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Gartner IAM Summit 2025 insights on authorization maturity, Workload IAM, and AuthZEN. Learn why policy based, externalized authorization is becoming core identity infrastructure for modern workloads and AI agents.
- [Secure RAG: Implement LLM Access Control with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/access-control-for-rag-llms.md) — 2025-12-10 · Heidi Hokanson · Announcement, Guide. Learn how to implement access control for RAG and LLMs. Maintain data security and compliance with fine-grained authorization for your RAG and LLMs. Enforce your organization’s permissions within your AI system.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.48: OpenID AuthZEN support, improved query plans, faster bundle loading](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-48-open-id-auth-zen-support-improved-query-plans-faster-bundle-loading.md) — 2025-12-09 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.48 adds OpenID AuthZEN support, faster bundle loading, improved query plans, and streamlined Git-based policy updates; delivering even more predictable, high-performance authorization for complex, multitenant systems.
- [Key compliance regulations for non-human identities](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/key-compliance-regulations-for-non-human-identities.md) — 2025-12-05 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. A clear guide to key compliance regulations for non-human identities across PCI DSS, DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2. Plus what auditors expect and how to prepare.
- [How to implement scalable multitenant authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-implement-scalable-multitenant-authorization.md) — 2025-12-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Implement multitenant authorization without role explosion. Learn how tenant-aware roles, ABAC, and externalized policy engines provide secure, flexible, and maintainable access control for multitenant applications.
- [Cerbos vs. OPA](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-vs-opa.md) — 2025-11-27 · Emre Baran · Guide. Understand the differences between Cerbos and OPA across policy language, developer experience, architecture, performance, and policy management. We will also show the strengths and limitations of each solution and discuss practical trade-offs.
- [Key takeaways from Workload Identity Day 0 at KubeCon](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/key-takeaways-workload-identity-day-0-kubecon.md) — 2025-11-27 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Workload Identity Day 0 revealed SPIFFE’s dominance and exposed rising risks in non-human and AI-driven identities. Learn why modern workloads demand strong identity, fine-grained authorization, and platform-level security to stay compliant and resilient as AI agents scale.
- [What is Cerbos?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-cerbos.md) — 2025-11-27 · Bruce Wiggleston · Guide. What Cerbos is, and why it should be the go to for authorization.
- [Mongoose adapter for Cerbos Query Plans v2.0](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/updated-mongoose-adapter-for-cerbos-query-plans-v2.md) — 2025-11-25 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Speed up authorization in MongoDB with Cerbos Query Plans and the enhanced Mongoose adapter. Enforce policy logic in-database and return only allowed records.
- [Staying compliant - What you need to know](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/staying-compliant.md) — 2025-11-20 · Anna Paykina · Guide. Staying on top of compliance has become essential for businesses today. In this article we examine the key elements of compliance that should be prioritized, from data quality and change management to audit logs and access control. We also explore how picking the right authorization system can strengthen your compliance efforts.
- [Migrating from OPA and Rego to Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/migrating-from-opa-rego-to-cerbos.md) — 2025-11-20 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering, Documentation. Learn how to migrate from from OPA and Rego to Cerbos. This guide walks you through the differences, how to translate common patterns, how to update your integration layer, and how to roll out the migration safely.
- [Broken access control still tops the list: OWASP top 10 2025](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/broken-access-control-owasp-top-10-2025.md) — 2025-11-20 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn why Broken Access Control remains the top OWASP 2025 risk and how Cerbos provides scalable, fine-grained authorization to prevent object-level and contextual access failures.
- [Platform engineering leaders are racing to enable AI safely - takeaways from KubeCon NA 2025](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/platform-engineering-leaders-are-racing-to-enable-ai-safely-kubecon.md) — 2025-11-18 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Discover how platform engineering leaders at KubeCon NA use a three-lane model, sandboxes, and shift-down security to accelerate safe AI adoption, govern AI agents, and protect developer velocity.
- [AuthZEN: Standards-based authorization for enterprises](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authzen-standards-based-authorization-for-enterprises.md) — 2025-11-07 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Authorization used to lack the standards authentication gained with OAuth and OpenID. AuthZEN, backed by the OpenID Foundation, introduces a unified model for externalized, fine-grained, and interoperable access control. Discover how Cerbos supports AuthZEN to deliver modern, standardized enterprise authorization.
- [What ISC2 congress 2025 made clear about modern compliance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/isc2-congress-2025-modern-compliance.md) — 2025-11-06 · Alex Olivier · Guide. ISC2 Congress 2025 highlighted the shift from policy documentation to policy as code. Learn how security leaders are implementing continuous compliance, governing AI systems, quantifying cyber risk, and embedding enforcement directly into infrastructure for measurable, auditable security controls.
- [Automate Cerbos policy uploads with the cerbos-store-action GitHub Action](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/automate-cerbos-policy-uploads-with-the-cerbos-store-action-git-hub-action.md) — 2025-11-03 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation. Automate your authorization workflows with the new Cerbos Store Action for GitHub. Synchronise your policy files with Cerbos Hub automatically in CI/CD - no manual scripts or Docker commands needed.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy in HR systems](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-in-hr-systems.md) — 2025-11-02 · H.A. Writer · Engineering, Guide. Best practices for translating business requirements into authorization policy for your Human Resources (HR) system. We walk through the process of reviewing business requirements, analyzing them, defining policies, and ultimately deploying them to production systems as efficiently as possible.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for insurance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-insurance.md) — 2025-10-30 · H.A. Writer · Engineering, Guide. Explore how insurance companies can combat fraud with modern authorization. This guide explains PBAC in action across auto, life, and property insurance; with practical examples and policy templates to help you implement secure, fraud-resistant access control in your organization.
- [Run Cerbos natively inside AWS Lambda](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/run-cerbos-natively-inside-aws-lambda.md) — 2025-10-30 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Deploy Cerbos directly in AWS Lambda-either as a standalone function or as a lightweight extension layer-while using Cerbos Hub for centralized policy management and audit-logging.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.47.0: AWS Lambda support, Git-aware Hub uploads, and smarter schema diagnostics](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-47-0-aws-lambda-support-git-aware-hub-uploads-schema-diagnostics.md) — 2025-10-30 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Run Cerbos anywhere. v0.47 adds native AWS Lambda support, Git-integrated policy uploads, richer schema errors, and performance improvements.
- [Streamline authorization by leveraging JWT claims in Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/leveraging-jwt-claims-in-cerbos-access-control.md) — 2025-10-29 · Alex Olivier. Learn how to use Cerbos to verify JWTs with your JWKS, then read claims directly in policy conditions, no custom code, fast to production.
- [Building your own authorization solution vs. buying an off-the-shelf one](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/build-vs-buy-authorization.md) — 2025-10-28 · Emre Baran · Guide. Build vs. buy for authorization. There is no standard answer to the perennial build vs. buy question, but the argument for rolling your own authorization is getting harder to make. In this article, we help you speedrun the build vs. buy decision by breaking down your choices, so you can evaluate what’s best for your situation.
- [Zero trust has reached operational reality](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/zero-trust-has-reached-operational-reality.md) — 2025-10-27 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Zero Trust is no longer theoretical. Discover how mature identity standards and centralized authorization transform Zero Trust from strategy to execution, delivering continuous compliance, reduced breach impact, and faster, more secure development.
- [Modern application architecture trends: AI, microservices, and pragmatic security](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/modern-application-architecture-trends.md) — 2025-10-21 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Presentation. Explore modern application architecture trends for AI-driven infrastructure, modular monoliths, microservices, and pragmatic security, as well as patterns shaping cloud, on-prem, and hybrid systems.
- [Zero-Trust for microservices, a practical blueprint](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/zero-trust-for-microservices.md) — 2025-10-17 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Learn how to implement a Zero-Trust security model for microservices. Discover how to secure service-to-service communication, manage workload identities, and enforce fine-grained authorization across distributed systems, AI agents, and APIs.
- [How to implement resource-based authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-implement-resource-based-authorization.md) — 2025-10-13 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn how to implement resource-based authorization for fine-grained, contextual access control. Compare it to role-based and attribute-based models, explore real-world use cases, such as in microservices and multi-tenant SaaS applications.
- [What is access control?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-access-control.md) — 2025-10-10 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn what access control is, why it’s essential, and how it operates within application environments. We’ll also explore some common challenges developers face when implementing access control and review the types of technologies that can streamline the process.
- [How to secure your FastMCP server with permission management](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-secure-your-fast-mcp-server-with-permission-management.md) — 2025-10-08 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Integration. FastMCP is a Python framework for building production-ready MCP servers with minimal code. Without authorization, these servers risk exposing all tools to every user. The **cerbos-fastmcp** middleware adds policy-driven, fine-grained access control to secure FastMCP deployments.
- [NHI security: How to manage non-human identities and AI agents](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/nhi-security-how-to-manage-non-human-identities-and-ai-agents.md) — 2025-10-03 · Emre Baran · Guide. Discover NHI security: How to manage non-human identities and AI agents with practical principles. Learn strategies for inventory, least privilege, access controls, and authorization to secure NHIs and prevent AI risks in modern enterprises.
- [MCP security & AI agent authorization. A CISO and architect’s guide to securing the new AI perimeter.](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mcp-security-ai-agent-authorization-a-ciso-and-architects-guide.md) — 2025-09-30 · Emre Baran · Guide. MCP security and AI agent authorization are critical to protecting enterprise data. This guide explores risks, the “confused deputy” problem, and how externalized authorization builds a zero trust model to secure the new AI perimeter without slowing innovation.
- [MCP permissions. Securing AI agent access to tools.](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mcp-permissions-securing-ai-agent-access-to-tools.md) — 2025-09-28 · Alex Olivier. In this article, we explore what MCP is and how it works, why MCP permissions are so important, where current approaches fall short, and how adopting fine-grained, dynamic authorization can secure AI agent tool use. The goal is to harness the new power of AI agents safely, giving them exactly the access they need and nothing more.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for medtech](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-medtech.md) — 2025-09-28 · H.A. Writer · Guide, Engineering. Learn how to translate business requirements to authorization policy for medtech. Decouple authorization to keep medtech platforms compliant (HIPAA, GDPR, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, NHS RBAC), resilient to updates, and safe. Explore break-glass access, audit logs, role-based control, and an example case study.
- [Filtering database results with Cerbos query plans](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/filtering-database-results-with-cerbos-query-plans.md) — 2025-09-25 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Learn how Cerbos PlanResources API uses partial evaluation to streamline authorization. Discover how query plans translate into efficient database filters, boost performance, and simplify access control with custom adapters.
- [Service-to-service authorization: A guide to non-user principals](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/service-to-service-authorization.md) — 2025-09-24 · James Hickey · Guide. Read this article to understand what non-user principals are, when you might need them, and how they relate to service-to-service authorization.
- [Making Cerbos policies bulletproof with schemas](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/making-cerbos-policies-bulletproof-with-schemas.md) — 2025-09-22 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Learn how JSON schemas make Cerbos policies more reliable, secure, and easy to maintain. Catch integration errors early, prevent attribute injection attacks, and create bulletproof authorization for your applications.
- [Designing an authorization model for an enterprise](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/designing-an-authorization-model-for-an-enterprise.md) — 2025-09-22 · Nikhila Jain · Guide. Learn how to design an authorization model for an enterprise. An authorization model plays a vital role in securing an enterprise’s sensitive data. Businesses often code additional custom logic on top of traditional access control solutions, like Active Directory. However, as businesses grow, they need access control that can scale to match their growth.
- [Why using GitOps for authorization and access control is a good idea](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/why-using-gitops-for-authorization-and-access-control-is-a-good-idea.md) — 2025-09-17 · James Konik · Guide. Getting developers working in harmony is no easy task. Tools like GitHub make it much easier to manage code, but as infrastructure and deployment become more complex, issues arise with the systems projects are built on.
- [Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for fintech](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mapping-business-requirements-to-authorization-policy-for-fintech.md) — 2025-09-17 · H.A. Writer · Engineering, Guide. Best practices for translating business requirements into authorization policy for your fintech. We walk through the process of reviewing business requirements, analyzing them, defining policies, and ultimately deploying them to production systems as efficiently as possible.
- [Making application authorization context-aware with Cerbos outputs](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/making-application-authorization-context-aware-cerbos-outputs.md) — 2025-09-15 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering, Guide. Discover how Cerbos outputs turn binary authorization into rich, contextual decisions. Enable audit trails, rate limits, emergency access, and user guidance - without scattered code or compliance gaps.
- [The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/productivity-paradox-of-ai-coding-assistants.md) — 2025-09-12 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. AI coding assistants promise speed, but do they deliver? Explore data, developer insights, and security risks showing why AI feels faster but often slows production. Learn where tools like Cursor and Claude Code help, and where they fail.
- [Stop trusting your employees. Uber's "God view" proves you can't](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/trust-is-not-a-security-strategy.md) — 2025-09-11 · Emre Baran · Guide. Uber’s ‘God View’ exposed the dangers of unchecked internal tools. Learn why coarse admin access, weak audit trails, and hard-coded authorization are ticking time bombs—and how externalized authorization with Cerbos prevents abuse, ensures compliance, and protects sensitive data.
- [How to Add Authorization in a Node.js Application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/node-js-authorization.md) — 2025-09-10 · Daniel Olaogun · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Our guide demonstrates how to add authorization to a Node.js web application.
- [Building a shared authorization vocabulary with Cerbos variables](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/building-shared-authorization-vocabulary-with-cerbos-variables.md) — 2025-09-08 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering, Documentation. Cerbos variables let you create a shared authorization vocabulary. Your platform or security team defines what these core concepts mean once. Product teams then build their features using these pre-validated, centrally-managed definitions without worrying about the implementation details.
- [Strategies for securing Non-Human Identities](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/strategies-for-securing-non-human-identities.md) — 2025-09-07 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Strategies for securing Non-Human Identities. A 6-step framework covering Zero Trust, least privilege, lifecycle governance, metrics, and standards like SPIFFE and OIDC to protect AI agents, services, and workloads.
- [Trace authorization decisions and track organization-wide usage with new Cerbos Hub features](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/trace-authorization-decisions-and-track-usage-patterns.md) — 2025-09-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Announcement. Authorization debugging just got easier. We're shipping two features that tackle problems we've heard about repeatedly from customers running Cerbos at scale: understanding why specific authorization decisions were made and getting visibility into usage patterns across multiple teams.
- [Guide to Java authentication and authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authentication-and-authorization-in-java.md) — 2025-09-03 · Rajkumar Venkatasamy · Guide. Authorization technologies have seen significant changes and advancements in recent years—especially when it comes to Java. This article provides an overview of the evolving landscape to help you choose the best authorization framework for your Java application.
- [PBAC is back. Why policy‑based access control is trending again for enterprise security](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/policy-based-access-control-enterprise-security.md) — 2025-08-28 · Emre Baran · Guide. Discover why Policy Based Access Control (PBAC) is making a comeback. Learn PBAC benefits for enterprises, how to implement PBAC with Cerbos, and why analysts like KuppingerCole name it a top identity and security trend.
- [How Cerbos helped Nook build secure and extensible roles and permissions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-cerbos-helped-nook-build-secure-extensible-roles-permissions.md) — 2025-08-27 · Anna Paykina · Success Story. A secure, scalable and extendable authorization solution enables exponential business growth.
- [Safeguarding non-human identities: Understanding and addressing the OWASP top 10 threats](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/safeguarding-non-human-identities-understanding-and-addressing-owasp-top-10-threats.md) — 2025-08-15 · Alex Olivier · Guide. In this article, we’ll review each of the top 10 NHI threats, explain their real-world implications, and discuss how you can mitigate them. We’ll also demonstrate how Cerbos can help address some of these risks by enforcing fine-grained, contextual authorization rules for NHIs. Learn how to manage non-human identities securely.
- [Using Cerbos PDP with the Java Spring Security Framework](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-java-spring-security-framework.md) — 2025-08-13 · Twain Taylor · Guide, Integration. Learn how to integrate the Cerbos Policy Decision Point with Java Spring Security to replace hard-coded, scattered permission checks with clean, policy-driven authorization. This hands-on guide walks you through building a declarative, annotation-based approach that keeps your business rules flexible, maintainable, and out of your application code.
- [The technical complexities of externalized authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-technical-complexities-of-externalized-authorization.md) — 2025-08-05 · James Walker · Guide. Externalizing the authorization module can bring about a host of benefits. But what are the complexities of this approach? And how can they be addressed? In this guide, you can familiarize yourself with the important technical aspects of externalizing authorization.
- [Recap of webinar: "Business case for externalized authorization"](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/recap-of-webinar-business-case-for-externalized-authorization.md) — 2025-08-05 · Alex Olivier · Presentation, Engineering. Alex Olivier and Dan Maher discuss the complexities of managing user permissions as businesses grow. They highlighted external authorization as a scalable and flexible solution that enhances security, supports compliance, and streamlines operations, fostering sustainable growth and efficient access control.
- [Why external authorization is essential for modern software architecture](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/why-external-authorization.md) — 2025-08-05 · Charith Ellawala · Engineering. External authorization simplifies access control by centralizing policies, improving scalability, and enhancing security. This approach reduces development complexity, ensures consistency across systems, and makes compliance easier to manage. Explore the benefits and practical steps for implementation in this article.
- [The ROI of NHI security: Why investing in machine identity protection pays off](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/roi-of-nhi-security-investing-in-machine-identity-protection-pays-off.md) — 2025-08-05 · Emre Baran · Guide. Unsecured NHIs are not just a technical oversight, but a full-blown business liability. Unsecured machine identity can trigger downtime, compliance failures, and multi-million-dollar losses. Learn the risks associated with NHIs, the cost of not securing them, and how to approach a solution that is policy-based, and future-proof.
- [Announcing the new Cerbos Hub usage dashboard](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-usage-dashboard.md) — 2025-08-04 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Guide. We are excited to launch the new usage dashboard in Cerbos Hub. This new feature provides a comprehensive, real-time view of your authorization service, allowing you to monitor key metrics, analyze trends, and gain valuable insights into your policies and their consumers.
- [Deploying Cerbos PDP on AWS Lambda and API Gateway: Step-by-step guide](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/deploy-cerbos-pdp-aws-lambda-api-gateway.md) — 2025-07-29 · Twain Taylor · Engineering, Guide. Cerbos makes it easy to decouple and scale your access control with policy-as-code. In this guide, you’ll deploy a fully serverless Cerbos PDP using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, with audit logging, S3-based policies, and flexible endpoint protection.
- [Integrating scalable authorization in .NET](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/scalable-authorization-in-asp-net.md) — 2025-07-22 · Twain Taylor · Engineering, Guide. Struggling with brittle role-based authorization in .NET Core Identity? This hands-on guide shows how to decouple complex access logic from your application by integrating Cerbos as a custom authorization provider—enabling scalable, policy-driven access control without scattering business rules across your codebase. Learn how to plug Cerbos into your ASP.NET Core pipeline and write policies that adapt as fast as your requirements do.
- [Meet four new use cases in the updated Cerbos Hub](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/four-new-use-cases-in-updated-cerbos-hub.md) — 2025-07-18 · Lisa Dziuba, Emre Baran and Alex Olivier · Announcement. Cerbos Hub gives engineering, security, and IAM teams everything they need to manage authorization across any architecture at any scale. Learn about four new use cases: Fine-grained tenant specific authorization, dynamic policy management at scale, scalable NHI permission management, secure authorization for MCP servers.
- [Updated Cerbos Hub, the complete authorization solution for your Identity Fabric](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/updated-cerbos-hub-complete-authorization-solution-for-your-identity-fabric.md) — 2025-07-17 · Lisa Dziuba, Emre Baran and Alex Olivier · Announcement. It’s been a big year for Cerbos Hub. The latest release makes Cerbos Hub the centralized control plane for every authorization decision across applications, AI agents, services, and workloads. Organizations can now manage authorization for every identity in their system with full visibility, consistent policy enforcement, and alignment with a Zero Trust strategy.
- [Advanced multi-tenant SaaS authorization with Cerbos: Role policies and scoped resource policies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/multi-tenant-saas-authorization-role-policies-and-scoped-resource-policies.md) — 2025-07-16 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Engineering, Guide. Learn how Cerbos, with features like role policies and the fine-grained control offered by scoped resource policies (governed by scope permissions mode), provides a powerful toolkit to define and enforce multi-tenant security effectively.
- [Supercharging LLM understanding of Cerbos documentation](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/llm-understanding-of-cerbos-documentation.md) — 2025-07-15 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn how Cerbos improves Large Language Model (LLM) comprehension of its documentation using the new llms.txt standard—plus an open-source Antora plugin to help others do the same.
- [Context Aware Auth0 Authorization: RBAC & ABAC](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/auth0-authorization.md) — 2025-07-11 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. For complex and dynamic applications in Auth0, a dedicated authorization system (more than just RBAC) is required — enter ABAC!
- [Patterns of failure in modern authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-failure-patterns.md) — 2025-07-01 · Daniel Maher. Authorization has evolved from simple UNIX permissions to complex distributed systems—and it's easier to get wrong than ever, as recent failures at Facebook, Okta, and Microsoft show. In this article, we'll walk through the history of authorization, break down three high-profile incidents at major tech companies, and share practical patterns to help you avoid becoming the next case-study.
- [Dynamic authorization for AI agents. A guide to fine-grained permissions in MCP servers](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/dynamic-authorization-for-ai-agents-guide-to-fine-grained-permissions-mcp-servers.md) — 2025-06-30 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Guide. Learn how to building a secure MCP server where AI Agent tool access is managed by Cerbos, a decoupled, policy-driven Authorization service. You will learn how to enforce fine-grained authorization by externalizing access controls into human-readable policies.
- [Techniques for handling failure scenarios in microservice architectures](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/handling-failures-in-microservice-architectures.md) — 2025-06-27 · Tania Duggal · Engineering. This article explores the strategies for managing failure scenarios in microservice architectures. It covers techniques to address both technical glitches and business impacts. You will learn how organizations can build fault-tolerant systems that are capable of gracefully handling cascading failures while maintaining core functionalities, even in a degraded state.
- [Don't fetch that. A developer's guide to pre- vs. post-filtering for authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/pre-vs-post-filtering-for-authorization.md) — 2025-06-26 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. While the initial simplicity of post-filtering is alluring, it’s a solution with a ceiling. It creates performance bottlenecks and security concerns that are difficult to engineer your way out of later. For modern, scalable, and secure applications, pre-filtering is the clear winner - you build a system that is performant, secure by design, and ready for future growth. And for those who need absolute certainty, the hybrid approach offers truly bulletproof authorization.
- [Practices that set great software architects apart](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-practices-of-software-architecture.md) — 2025-06-20 · Daniel Maher · Guide. Great software architects don’t just make technical decisions—they balance competing priorities, navigate messy org charts, and align engineering with business strategy. This post explores the habits and mindset that separate competent architects from truly impactful ones, and why those differences matter. Whether you're eyeing the role or already in it, these are the practices that move the needle.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.44 & v0.45: Multi-action query plans, smarter role prioritization, and more](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-44-v0-45-multi-action-query-plans-smarter-role-prioritization.md) — 2025-06-17 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Learn about the two recent releases of the Cerbos Policy Decision Point: v0.44.0 and v0.45.0. These versions bring a powerful new capability to the PlanResources API, address some important bugs, and continue our work on improving the core engine.
- [Authorization and access control in Vue.js with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/complete-guide-to-vue-js-authorization-and-access-control.md) — 2025-06-12 · Adedeji Agunbiade. Managing access control directly in Vue components and stores doesn't scale. This tutorial explains how to externalize authorization logic with Cerbos, using policy-as-code to enforce consistent, attribute-driven permissions across your app—without cluttering your templates or Vuex logic.
- [Cloud native chronicles: Lessons learned from building Cerbos in the open](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cloud-native-chronicles-lessons-learned-from-building-cerbos-in-the-open.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. What does it actually mean in practice to be Cloud Native? Having spent the last 2 years building the open source authorization layer Cerbos, we will cover the key software ingredients that contribute to a successful cloud-native project. Hear some of the hard-learned lessons, and the most sought-after aspects when venturing into your own cloud-native endeavours.
- [Revolutionize your authorization with Cerbos: A comprehensive video demo | ByteGrad](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/revolutionize-your-authorization-with-cerbos-a-comprehensive-video-demo-bytegrad.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. Discover how Cerbos simplifies authorization for microservices and Next.js applications in this video. Dive deep into Cerbos Hub's capabilities with a practical demo, showcasing ease of management and deployment. Watch now to enhance your security strategy.
- [Insights from KubeCon Europe 2025 - AI gets real, and identity gets serious](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/insights-kubecon-europe-2025-ai-identity.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. KubeCon Europe 2025 revealed a shift from AI hype to real-world operations, spotlighting the rise of identity-first architecture and policy-based access control. From secure workload identities to operationalizing AI, the cloud-native community is embracing maturity with scalable, secure infrastructure.
- [Cerbos Hub Audit Logs Live in Beta](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-audit-logs-live-in-beta.md) — 2025-06-11 · Daniel Maher · Announcement, Guide. Explore Cerbos Hub Audit Logs, now in beta! Capture detailed access and decision records across your PDPs, enabling faster debugging, enhanced security, and compliance verification. Ideal for developers, security engineers, and product managers, this feature streamlines your workflow and provides deep insights into authorization decisions.
- [Introducing Cerbos Hub Playground engine settings](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-playground-engine-settings.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering. This update to the Cerbos Hub Playground introduces new settings, which let you configure the Cerbos PDP engine used when evaluating policy during development, in a way that reflects your actual environment.
- [Recap of webinar: "Simplify access controls in Node.js, React & serverless apps" | Cerbos & ByteGrad](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/recap-of-webinar-simplify-access-controls-in-node-js-react-and-serverless-apps-cerbos-and-byte-grad.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Presentation, Guide, Engineering. Join Alex Olivier, Cerbos Chief Product Officer, and Wesley, presenter of the popular ByteGrad Youtube channel, as they demonstrate how to author permissions and policy changes using Cerbos, and deploy those changes without changing any other code.
- [From OPA to our own engine - the Cerbos journey](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/from-opa-to-our-own-engine-cerbos.md) — 2025-06-11 · Emre Baran · Guide. When we started building Cerbos in January of 2021, we had a clear mission. We wanted to help developers separate their roles and permissions management from the core application code, creating a more scalable and future-proof way of handling permissions. This is the story of how we began with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and eventually built our own policy decision engine, and why that transition was crucial for our product's evolution.
- [Introducing enhanced test management in Cerbos Hub - Search, filter, and view test results easily](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/introducing-enhanced-test-management-in-cerbos-hub-search-filter-and-view-test-results-easily.md) — 2025-06-11 · Rohit Ghumare · Documentation. The new search and filter capabilities within Cerbos Hub take the pain out of testing and troubleshooting policies for users who run a large number of tests.
- [What is admin-time / static authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/admin-time-authorization-static-authorization.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. This article will explain what admin time authorization is, why it matters for software architects and developers, and how it contrasts with dynamic, run-time checks. We’ll also touch on real-world scenarios to illustrate the concept, and briefly discuss how newer solutions tie these models together for better security and compliance.
- [Implementing an authorization model for a SaaS application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/implementing-an-authorization-model-for-a-saas-application.md) — 2025-06-11 · James Walker · Guide. SaaS applications require robust authorization models, although selecting the right approach for your system can be daunting. This article outlines a solid method for implementing authorization within a typical workspace SaaS application.
- [What is data authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-data-authorization.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Data authorization provides fine-grained access control. Understand why data authorization matters, and how organizations can implement it to reduce risk, meet compliance requirements, and enhance user experience.
- [How Cerbos works](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-cerbos-works.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Discover how Cerbos can integrate seamlessly into your existing software ecosystem. In this blog post, we go through Cerbos' functionality, main features, and the benefits of using Cerbos for fine-grained authorization in your applications.
- [Embracing WebAssembly in authorization | Cerbos, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Paris](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/embracing-web-assembly-in-authorization.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. The intersection of Kubernetes, cloud-native solutions, and WebAssembly (WASM) represents a frontier of innovation. At the recent KubeCon EU conference, Alex Olivier, CPO and Co-Founder of Cerbos, shared insights during an interview with Milo Oudenaller from Amazic.
- [Access control and permission management for AI agents: building with security in mind](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/permission-management-for-ai-agents.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. AI-powered chatbots and agents are value-adding features for many companies, helping both company employees and external users, who interact with the company products. The key challenge here is that these chatbots should provide contextually useful responses that would solve users' problems without leaking sensitive information. Read on to see how this can be achieved.
- [Role-based access control best practices: 11 top tips](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/role-based-access-control-best-practices.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Role-Based Access Control is an access control model based on clearly defined roles. Read on to learn more about Role-Based Access Control best practices.
- [Cerbos Playground: Dive into the RBAC policy generator](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-playground-dive-into-the-rbac-policy-generator.md) — 2025-06-11 · Aldin Kiselica · Guide. Access control in modern applications is crucial to ensure data privacy and system integrity. As applications become more complex and interconnected, so does the need for a more simplified way to manage access controls. This piece showcases Cerbos Playground's newest feature - the RBAC Policy Generator.
- [Cerbos Dagger module for authorization testing](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-dagger-module-for-authorization-testing.md) — 2025-06-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Introducing the Cerbos Dagger module: a tool to streamline authorization testing by externalizing policies, integrating with CI pipelines, and simplifying permission management. Learn how this module can enhance your application's security and maintainability. Watch the demo and explore more on GitHub.
- [Understanding security and access control requirements of microservices environment](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/security-and-access-control-microservices.md) — 2025-06-11 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn how you can implement robust security protocols and access control measures to ensure inter-services communicating is not compromised.
- [Authorization in developer workflows: best practices and tools](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-in-workflows.md) — 2025-06-03 · Daniel Maher · Guide. Authorization can be a powerful enabler of developer creativity and seamless user experiences—but only when treated as a first-class workflow concern. Explore how modern authorization patterns can improve security, productivity, and the developer experience itself!
- [5 common authentication methods for NHIs](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/5-authentication-methods-for-nhi.md) — 2025-05-30 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Deep dive into NHI authentication. Learn 5 common methods for authenticating non-human identities, their architecture, use cases, and security posture.
- [3 Most Common Authorization Designs for SaaS Products](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/3-most-common-authorization-designs-for-saas-products.md) — 2025-05-30 · Cameron Pavey · Guide. There are many ways to design and implement an authorization system. Read this article to discover the 3 most common authorization designs for SaaS products.
- [What is run-time authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/run-time-authorization.md) — 2025-05-23 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Explore what run-time authorization is, how it compares to admin-time models, and when it makes sense to use each. You’ll learn how run-time checks work, why they matter, and how they help strike a balance between flexibility, security, and control. We'll also touch on tools and design patterns that make dynamic access decisions practical to implement.
- [Simple role-based access control in Ruby](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/role-based-access-control-ruby.md) — 2025-05-13 · Twain Taylor · Guide, Engineering. Tired of tangled if statements and scattered permission logic? This post walks through the evolution from DIY role checks in Ruby to scalable, production-grade authorization using Cerbos—improving your flow without rewriting your app.
- [Designing a Zero Trust Architecture: 20 open-source tools to secure every layer](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/20-open-source-tools-for-zero-trust-architecture.md) — 2025-05-02 · Terrence Aluda & Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Explore 20 open-source tools to implement Zero Trust Architecture across firewalls, network segmentation, encryption, workload identity, authentication, and authorization layers. Enhance security by eliminating implicit trust and enforcing continuous verification at every level.
- [How to avoid common authorization errors for efficient access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/avoid-authorization-errors.md) — 2025-04-30 · Adejoke Haastrup · Guide. Discover the hidden pitfalls of authorization that could expose your application to serious security risks. Unpack common anti-patterns—like over-permissioning and hardcoded access logic—and explore practical strategies for building safer, more maintainable systems.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.42 & v0.43: SPIFFE identity support and smarter logging](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-42-and-v0-43-spiffe-identity-support-smarter-logging.md) — 2025-04-10 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Learn about the latest updates that bring new capabilities and improvements to Cerbos. With v0.42 and v0.43, we've added support for SPIFFE identities in policies, improved the structure of audit logs, and tightened the reliability of policy updates in live environments.
- [Authorization for non-human identities (NHIs) with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-for-non-human-identities.md) — 2025-04-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Learn all about non-human identities - what they are, why securing them is important, along with how Cerbos can be used to effectively authorize NHIs.
- [SPIFFE identity parsing added to Cerbos PDP](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/spiffe-identity-parsing-cerbos-pdp.md) — 2025-04-03 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Announcement, Engineering. Cerbos PDP now supports native parsing and evaluation of SPIFFE identities in authorization policies. This unlocks precise access control for non-human identities (NHIs) like services, workloads, and containers that rely on SPIFFE-based workload identity.
- [Insights from Gartner IAM Summit 2025 - Identity, authorization, and the road ahead](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/insights-from-gartner-iam-summit-2025-identity-authorization.md) — 2025-03-28 · Alex Olivier · Guide. The 2025 Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) Summit in London brought the identity community face-to-face with the future. From the surge of machine identities to evolving authorization patterns and policy-based control, the event underlined a clear shift: identity and access are no longer just IT plumbing - they're strategic infrastructure.
- [A non-developer’s guide to authorization APIs](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/a-non-developers-guide-to-authorization-apis.md) — 2025-03-28 · Emre Baran · Guide. As the digital realm becomes more interconnected and sophisticated, exponentially growing threats make breaches not just a possibility but an impending reality for those not adequately protected. At the heart of this safeguard is not just recognizing who a user is but strictly defining and overseeing what they can and cannot access.This is where Authorization comes into play.
- [11 best open source tools for Software Architects](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/best-open-source-tools-software-architects.md) — 2025-03-20 · Terrence Aluda · Guide. Learn about the best open-source tools for software architects, from diagramming and modeling to access control. Discover tools like Graphviz, PlantUML, Mermaid, and Cerbos to enhance system design, collaboration, and security in your software architecture workflows.
- [Cerbos Prisma integration v2.0: More powerful fine-grained authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-prisma-integration-v2-0.md) — 2025-03-17 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Announcement, Engineering. Latest update to the Cerbos reference Prisma Query Plan Adapter - making it even easier to enforce fine-grained access control within applications using Prisma ORM. In this blog post, we’ll explore the new features, use cases enabled, and how you can start using it today.
- [Add fully featured authorization to your Prisma app](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/prisma-authorization.md) — 2025-03-17 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Read this guide and learn how to set up a basic CRM web application using Prisma for data storage and Cerbos for fully featured authorization.
- [Simple Role-Based Access Control in JavaScript](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/role-based-access-control-in-javascript.md) — 2025-03-17 · Apoorv Tripathi · Guide, Integration, Engineering. Learn how to integrate Cerbos into a JavaScript To-Do List application for robust role-based access control (RBAC). This guide covers setting up Cerbos, defining roles and permissions, and best practices for secure and scalable authorization management. Perfect for developers looking to enhance application security with fine-grained access control.
- [Guide to Kubernetes RBAC](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/guide-to-kubernetes-rbac.md) — 2025-03-17 · Tania Duggal · Guide. Learn about Kubernetes RBAC, its core objects, and challenges such as scalability, manual management, and auditing. Discover best practices and how Cerbos helps simplify RBAC for Kubernetes, ensuring security and compliance with minimal effort.
- [Enterprise access control in service-oriented architectures](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/enterprise-access-control.md) — 2025-03-12 · H.A. Writer · Guide, Engineering. Choosing the right access control model for your enterprise isn't just a technical decision - it’s a business one. Explore the challenges of role explosion, the advantages of attribute-based access, and how a hybrid approach can simplify authorization while ensuring compliance and security.
- [Certifications for Enterprise Architects, Domain Solutions Architects, and Software Engineers](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/certifications-for-enterprise-architects-domain-solutions-architects-software-engineers.md) — 2025-03-12 · Lisa Dziuba · Guide. Learn if getting a certification is the right option for you, if you are an Enterprise Architect, Domain Solutions Architect, or a Software Engineer. As well as which certification you should go for.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.41.0: Scope permissions and role policies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-41-0-scope-permissions-and-role-policies.md) — 2025-03-06 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest Cerbos update improves scope permissions, role policies, and time-based condition functions. With stricter policy tests and better ECS CPU detection, Cerbos ensures more precise, efficient authorization. Learn more about the key improvements.
- [DevWorld 2025 - A dichotomy of open source and enterprise](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/devworld-2025-opensource-enterprise.md) — 2025-03-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. DevWorld conference - reflecting over the two days of conversations, two camps emerged: the early-stage startup open-source adopters and the massive enterprise organizations. Both groups have similar requirements around fine-grained authorization, but the technology stacks to deliver that within were different.
- [Authorization at the edge](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/edge-authorization.md) — 2025-03-04 · David Ekete · Engineering. Discover how slow authorization impacts user experience and why it matters for your application's success. Learn about edge authorization as a powerful solution that reduces latency, improves reliability, and enhances performance across various industries—from e-commerce to healthcare. Explore real-world examples and implementation strategies to transform authorization from a security bottleneck into a competitive advantage.
- [Audit logs for Cerbos Hub Embedded PDPs](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/audit-logs-for-cerbos-hub-embedded-pdps.md) — 2025-02-27 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Guide, Engineering. We’ve introduced support for capturing audit decision logs from the Cerbos Hub Embedded Policy Decision Points (ePDP) using the latest version of the Cerbos Javascript SDK. Learn how this feature enables organizations to track and analyze authorization decisions made locally in embedded environments, ensuring complete visibility and auditability, without relying on a centralized PDP or Cerbos Hub.
- [How to implement an authorization system for RAG using LangGraph, Cerbos and Pinecone](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/rag-authorization-system-langgraph-cerbos-pinecone.md) — 2025-02-20 · Usman Malik · Engineering, Guide. Dive into implementing an authorization system for your RAG app using LangGraph, Pinecone, and Cerbos. Along the way, you’ll learn how to: set up a Pinecone dataset for RAG, build an Enterprise Resource Planning RAG application with LangGraph, Implement Role-Based Access Control and Attribute-Based Access Control using Cerbos.
- [How to use ReactJS for secure Role Based Access Control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-use-react-js-for-secure-role-based-access-control.md) — 2025-02-18 · Apoorv Tripathi · Guide, Integration. A primer on authorization and role based access control (RBAC), as well as a tutorial on adding fine-grained RBAC to a ReactJS application. Includes follow-along repo with code and many examples.
- [How to implement authorization using Cerbos in Go](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-implement-authorization-in-go.md) — 2025-02-18 · Kunal Verma · Guide, Engineering. Learn how to implement robust authorization in a web application using Cerbos, a powerful authorization engine, and Echo, a fast and minimalist Go web framework for building our application's backend. By the end of this guide, you'll know how to set up a secure RESTful API in Go and enforce access control policies using Cerbos.
- [Authorization and access control in Flask](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-in-flask.md) — 2025-02-04 · Osinachi Chukwujama · Guide, Engineering. Learn how to implement robust authorization in Flask applications using Cerbos, a powerful open-source policy decision point (PDP) that separates authorization logic from your application code. This tutorial walks you through integrating Cerbos with a Flask blog application, demonstrating how to define flexible YAML-based policies that control user access and permissions without modifying your codebase.
- [Statements about stateless](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/statements-about-stateless.md) — 2025-01-30 · Daniel Maher · Engineering. Curious about how "stateless" systems work when everything needs state? Join long-time sysadmin Dan to learn about the core principles and real-world challenges of stateless architecture—and what actually happens when theory meets practice.
- [API security best practices: tips to protect your data in transit](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/api-security-best-practices.md) — 2025-01-28 · Adejoke Haastrup · Guide. Discover essential API security best practices to safeguard your data in transit and protect against unauthorized access. Learn how secure authentication, proper API key management, and adherence to data protection regulations can enhance your system's resilience.
- [Top five open source alternatives to Auth0](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/auth0-alternatives.md) — 2025-01-21 · Omu Inetimi · Guide. Five solid open-source alternatives to Auth0 that provide similar functionality while giving you the benefits of a self-hosted and community-driven identity infrastructure.
- [11 authorization and IAM trends you’ll see in 2025](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/11-authorization-and-iam-trends-in-2025.md) — 2025-01-21 · Emre Baran and Alex Olivier · Guide. Discover eleven trends that will change the authorization and IAM industries in 2025.
- [Effective team collaboration and code ownership for managing microservices systems](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/team-collaboration-and-code-ownership-microservices.md) — 2025-01-20 · Emre Baran · Guide. Understand the importance of team collaboration and code ownership in microservices architecture for system success and maintainability.
- [Top 10 organizational and technical challenges when migrating from a monolith to microservices (with in-depth company examples)](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/organizational-technical-challenges-migrating-monolith-to-microservices.md) — 2025-01-20 · Emre Baran · Guide. Explore top technical and organizational challenges when migrating from monolithic to microservices architecture, with remedies and real-world examples.
- [useAsyncFetcher: How to implement an asynchronous fetch function in a Remix app](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/useasyncfetcher-implement-asynchronous-fetch-in-remix.md) — 2025-01-16 · Hasan Ayan · Engineering. Presenting remix-use-async-fetcher, a technique and library for implementing an asynchronous fetch function in a Remix application by leveraging clientLoader. Clear explanations, code examples, a functional library, and a demo app are all included!
- [Guide to performance and scalability in microservices architectures](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/performance-and-scalability-microservices.md) — 2025-01-09 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn about achieving optimal performance and scalability in microservices architectures. Understand how to navigate the common but technical challenges.

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- [What is zero trust authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/zero-trust-authorization.md) — 2024-12-28 · Twain Taylor · Guide. Discover the essentials of Zero Trust Authorization (ZTA) in this guide, starting with key principles like continuous verification, least-privileged access, and granular policy controls. Learn how to implement ZTA, overcome common challenges, and streamline the process using open source solutions.
- [What is role-based access control and when to use it](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-role-based-access-control-and-when-to-use-it.md) — 2024-12-25 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn what role-based access control (RBAC) is, how it works, and when it can be used.
- [What is dynamic authorization and why is it important?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-dynamic-authorization.md) — 2024-12-23 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn about dynamic authorization—a modern approach to controlling who can access what, when, and under what conditions. Understand how dynamic authorization works, why it’s essential for modern, distributed systems, and how it differs from traditional methods like Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- [How to build an authorization system for your RAG applications with LangChain, Chroma DB and Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-for-rag-applications-langchain-chromadb-cerbos.md) — 2024-12-19 · Usman Malik · Guide, Engineering. Learn how to implement authorization systems for your Retrieval Augmented Generation apps. Deep dive into security concerns for RAG architecture, authorization techniques to address the security issues, and how to implement RAG authorization system using Cerbos, an open-source authorization layer.
- [CRDTs and collaborative playgrounds](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/crdts-and-collaborative-playground.md) — 2024-12-17 · Sam Lock · Engineering. Learn about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, Yjs, and how we built a collaborative, real-time playground in a web browser.
- [Best practices for testing and deploying microservices](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/testing-and-deployment-strategies-microservices.md) — 2024-12-09 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn the role of effective testing and deploying strategies, including unit testing, integrating testing and end-to-end testing in a microservices architecture.
- [Infrastructure vs application authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/infrastructure-vs-application-authorization.md) — 2024-12-06 · Daniel Olaogun · Guide. In this article, we will explore the distinct purposes and approaches of infrastructure and application authorization. We’ll dive into how each type functions, their common use cases, and why they are critical for securing your systems. We’ll also examine implementation strategies. By the end, you’ll have a clearer picture of how to effectively integrate authorization into both infrastructure and application layers.
- [Why low latency is important in authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/low-latency-in-authorization.md) — 2024-12-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Latency of authorization refers to the time it takes for this process to complete. High latency in authorization can lead to delays that frustrate users and hinder system performance. Learn more.
- [Rescuing and securing unstructured data with RAG](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/rescuing-and-securing-unstructured-data-with-rag.md) — 2024-12-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide. How Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing the way companies access and secure unstructured data.
- [Introducing updates to Cerbos PDP](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/updates-to-cerbos-pdp-open-source-authorization-solution.md) — 2024-12-03 · Alex Olivier · Announcement, Guide. Cerbos PDP, a policy decision point, is an authorization layer that can evolve as your product grows. It enables developers to define powerful, context-aware access control in simple, intuitive, and testable policies.
- [The value of monitoring and observability in microservices, and associated challenges](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/monitoring-and-observability-microservices.md) — 2024-12-02 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn how monitoring and observability is crucial in maintaining overall system health and performance in distributed environments of microservices.
- [Designing service discovery and load balancing in a microservices architecture](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/service-discovery-load-balancing-microservices.md) — 2024-11-25 · Emre Baran · Guide. Explore how service discovery and load balancing play crucial roles in microservices for dynamic communication and connection between multiple services.
- [SaaS user management - things to consider](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/saas-user-management.md) — 2024-11-21 · Alex Olivier · Guide. ​​In this blog, we’ll dive into everything you need to consider when working on SaaS user management. You’ll learn why managing user access is essential, how different access control models like RBAC and ABAC work, and the key benefits of a well-structured user management strategy.
- [Using Cerbos with Supabase](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-supabase.md) — 2024-11-19 · Fernando Doglio · Guide, Integration. Learn how to seamlessly integrate Supabase authentication with Cerbos authorization to create a secure, scalable backend. This guide covers setup, user creation, policy definition, and testing, ensuring robust access control without complex code. Perfect for developers seeking efficient, maintainable auth solutions.
- [How to pick the right inter-service communication pattern for your microservices](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/inter-service-communication-microservices.md) — 2024-11-18 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn how to pick the right inter-service communication pattern for your microservices. Discover the role of communication protocols and patterns in microservices for efficient inter-service data exchange that offers seamless functionality for end-users.
- [Access control for RAG and LLMs - live demo](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/access-control-for-rag-llms-demo.md) — 2024-11-15 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Presentation. Get insights into RAG architecture, its security challenges, and how Cerbos ensures secure and efficient access control. If you're looking for ways to install guardrails around your AI systems - read on.
- [What is IAM - Identity and access management?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/iam-identity-and-access-management.md) — 2024-11-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Learn what modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) looks like. You’ll learn what IAM is, what the components are, and how they intersect to support different security needs. By the end, you'll know how to choose and implement access management practices that safeguard systems, without compromising on user experience.
- [How to address decentralized data management in microservices](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/data-management-in-microservices.md) — 2024-11-11 · Emre Baran · Guide. Learn how decentralized data management is crucial in microservices for maintaining consistency and integrity across services.
- [Granular permission control - do organizations need it?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/granular-permission-control.md) — 2024-11-07 · Fernando Doglio · Guide. Granular permission control empowers organizations to manage access with precision, reducing security risks and ensuring compliance. By defining who can access what, and under which conditions, companies safeguard sensitive data and streamline operations. Learn why granular permissions are essential for robust security and effective role management.
- [Determining service boundaries and decomposing your monolith](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/determining-service-boundaries-and-decomposing-monolith.md) — 2024-11-04 · Emre Baran · Guide. The first major hurdle when decomposing a monolith app is defining appropriate boundaries for each microservice. We’ll cover how to break down a monolithic app into smaller, independently deployable services that align with business capabilities.
- [Why granular, scalable control is a must for every CTO](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/why-granular-scalable-control-is-a-must-for-every-cto.md) — 2024-10-29 · Emre Baran · Guide. Fine-grained authorization and access control in modern applications - learn how to transition from basic RBAC to ABAC using externalized authorization. Discover best practices for implementing scalable permission systems in microservices architectures, ensuring compliance, and managing technical debt through policy-driven security approaches.
- [Easy way to put user role in JWT](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/easy-way-to-put-user-role-in-jwt.md) — 2024-10-29 · Fernando Doglio · Guide, Engineering. Learn about embedding user roles in JWTs for managing access control in your applications. Use the technique described in this article with care. If you end up abusing this method, you'll fall into the bloated JWT anti-pattern.
- [Using Cerbos authorization with JSON Web Tokens](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/json-web-tokens-authorization-cerbos.md) — 2024-10-24 · Fernando Doglio · Guide, Engineering, Integration. Learn how to implement Cerbos authorization in JWT, in a JavaScript application using Next.js. This guide demonstrates combining JSON Web Tokens for secure authentication and Cerbos' policy-based engine for robust authorization, enabling simple access control management for your APIs.
- [Why you need to think about both your security and users when implementing authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/security-and-users-when-implementing-authorization.md) — 2024-10-23 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Explore how a finely-tuned authorization system balances security and user experience, ensuring compliance with global regulations like GDPR and CCPA. Learn strategies to design scalable, user-friendly permissions that align with business goals, enhance customer trust, and meet enterprise needs without compromising cybersecurity.
- [How to implement authorization in React JS](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-implement-authorization-in-react-js.md) — 2024-09-06 · Avinash Dalvi · Guide, Integration. In this blog, we will learn how to implement an authorization mechanism in ReactJS applications using Cerbos.
- [PBAC vs. Zanzibar: Finding The Right Fit For Your Application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/pbac-vs-zanzibar-finding-the-right-fit-for-your-application.md) — 2024-09-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Discover the key differences between PBAC and Zanzibar to find the ideal authorization solution for your application. Learn how PBAC with Cerbos offers a flexible, scalable access control solution, while Zanzibar excels in centralized, fine-grained management for static resources. Find the right fit for your needs.
- [It’s Time to Ensure Your Security Is as Scalable as Your Business](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-future-is-stateless-its-time-to-ensure-your-security-is-as-scalable-as-your-business.md) — 2024-08-29 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Discover how stateless authorization enhances security, scalability, and flexibility in software development. Learn why industry leaders like NTWRK and Loop are embracing this approach to improve application performance, reduce latency, and simplify policy updates. Ensure your software's security is as scalable as your business.
- [Badly Designed Authorization is Technical Debt](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/badly-designed-authorization-is-technical-debt.md) — 2024-08-29 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Optimize authorization in software engineering by decoupling business logic from code. Avoid hard-coded access controls that lead to technical debt. Centralize authorization decisions with tools like Cerbos, allowing for flexible, scalable, and secure policy management, independent of the application codebase.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.38.1 Release Highlights: Policy Variables, SBOM Support, Improved Error Messages and Helm Updates](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v0-38-1-release-highlights-policy-variables-sbom-support-improved-error-messages-and-helm-updates.md) — 2024-08-08 · Alex Olivier. The Cerbos PDP v0.38.1 release includes policy variables, SBOM support, improved error messages, Helm updates. Read this blog to learn more.
- [401 vs 403 Error Codes: What's the Difference?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/401-vs-403-error-whats-the-difference.md) — 2024-08-06 · Fernando Doglio · Guide. Error codes 401 and 403 are related to each other, and because of that, sometimes they tend to be mixed up together. In this article, we're going to review what each of these error codes mean—and what you can do to solve them.
- [How to implement authorization in a Gorilla application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/gorilla-authorization.md) — 2024-07-25 · Dumebi Okolo · Guide, Integration. In this post, we discuss implementing authorization in a Gorilla application & provide a step-by-step guide for doing so using Cerbos. Read more here.
- [Cerbos Hub - July Product Updates](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hub-july-product-updates.md) — 2024-07-24 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Engineering. Cerbos Hub July updates: GA launch, selective policy compilation for embedded PDP, detailed build error feedback, new Playground templates, and user profile management. Enhance your authorization systems with self-contained policy bundles and streamline policy creation. Learn more about these updates in our latest blog post.
- [Navigating authentication and authorization: Harnessing the power of Microsoft Entra External ID and Cerbos for enhanced application security](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/navigating-authentication-and-authorization-harnessing-the-power-of-microsoft-entra-external-id-and-cerbos-for-enhanced-application-security.md) — 2024-07-02 · Martin Gjoshevski & Alex Olivier · Engineering, Guide. Discover how to integrate Microsoft Entra External ID with Cerbos for robust web application security. This guide covers setup, user flows, permissions, and fine-grained authorization to enhance authentication and authorization practices, essential for developers aiming to build secure and scalable applications. Read our detailed tutorial now.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.37.0 Release Highlights: REPL autocomplete, Kubernetes DaemonSet and more](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v-0-37-0-release-highlights-repl-autocomplete-kubernetes-daemon-set-and-more.md) — 2024-07-02 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Engineering. The v0.37 release of Cerbos PDP adds support for autocomplete when using the Cerbos REPL, new Kubernetes deployment options and updates to the AdminAPI.
- [How to use Cerbos in Docker Compose (PDP + Hub)](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-use-cerbos-in-docker-compose-pdp-hub.md) — 2024-05-27 ·  Fatuma Abdullahi · Guide, Integration. In this blog, you will learn what Cerbos is, how Cerbos works and its main components. The blog will take you through a hands-on demonstration that will ensure you get an accelerated understanding of how to use Cerbos in a Docker environment as well as within the provided Hub.
- [Using Cerbos with Keycloak for Identity/AuthN](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/using-cerbos-with-keycloak-for-identity-auth-n.md) — 2024-05-16 · Omu Inetimi · Guide, Integration. In this tutorial, we'll use Keycloak for authentication and then implement Cerbos for fine-grained access control, all within a Django web application, though the same principle will work for any application. As a result we will ensure that only authenticated users can access certain parts of the application, and their actions are authorized with precision.
- [Cerbos v0.36.0 Release Highlights: Technical Enhancements and Developer Features](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-v-0-36-0-release-highlights-technical-enhancements-and-developer-features.md) — 2024-05-15 · Rohit Ghumare · Engineering, Documentation, Announcement. Cerbos v0.36.0 enhances the efficiency and functionality of policy-driven access controls. This version introduces asynchronous audit logging, refined Kafka backend handling, and new administrative commands, all designed to optimize performance and scalability.
- [Streamlining Application Security Updates with @cerbos/embedded AutoUpdatingLoader feature](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/streamlining-application-security-updates-with-cerbos-embedded-auto-updating-loader-feature.md) — 2024-05-14 · Rohit Ghumare · Documentation. Cerbos has added support for AutoUpdatingLoader to the `@cerbos/embedded` SDK, which facilitates real-time policy updates on the client without requiring a full reload, disrupting the ongoing user experience.
- [What the heck is a principal?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-the-heck-is-a-principal.md) — 2024-05-13 · Charith Ellawala · Engineering. And why we built Cerbos the way we did.
- [What's so bad about sidecars, anyway?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/whats-so-bad-about-sidecars-anyway.md) — 2024-05-12 · Hrittik Roy · Guide. Explore the benefits and limitations of using the sidecar design pattern and the specific use cases where it is most appropriate. Learn how to determine whether a sidecar is a suitable choice for a particular scenario, as well as how to implement sidecars to maximize their benefits.
- [Importance of authorization in transition from monolithic to microservices architecture](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/importance-of-authorization-in-transition-from-monolithic-to-microservices-architecture.md) — 2024-05-01 · Emre Baran · Guide. Explore how Cerbos enhances security in microservices architectures, transitioning from monolithic systems. This article discusses the necessity of robust, scalable authorization in distributed environments, emphasizing zero-trust principles and Cerbos's flexible, developer-friendly access control solutions.
- [Implementing Cerbos in a Spring Boot Application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/implementing-cerbos-in-a-spring-boot-application.md) — 2024-04-30 · Rohit Ghumare · Guide, Integration. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about authorization, how it works, and how to use Cerbos to integrate authorization into a Spring Boot application.
- [A complete guide to Next.js authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/a-complete-guide-to-next-js-authorization.md) — 2024-04-19 · Emre Baran and Rohit Ghumare · Guide, Integration. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about authorization, how it works, and how to integrate it into a Next.js application using Cerbos, an open-source authorization project. This approach will allow us to seamlessly manage and enforce access controls within our web application.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.35.1: Enhancements, fixes, and a new admin API](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v-0-35-1-enhancements-fixes-and-a-new-admin-api.md) — 2024-04-10 · Rohit Ghumare · Documentation. Cerbos PDP v0.35.1 focus on refining the robustness of our policy decision platform with essential bug fixes and introducing new capabilities that provide deeper insights into policy configurations.
- [Building secure applications: Key insights on authentication and authorization from Cerbos and Microsoft Entra](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/building-secure-applications-key-insights-on-authentication-and-authorization-from-cerbos-and-microsoft-entra.md) — 2024-04-03 · Martin Gjoshevski & Alex Olivier · Guide. Enhance software security through advanced authentication and authorization, explore the synergy between Microsoft Entra External ID and Cerbos. Learn the significance of choosing the right security approach, and discover how integrating these solutions empowers SaaS applications with robust, scalable security measures. A must-read for developers prioritizing data protection and compliance.
- [Modern software development in banking](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/modern-software-development-in-banking.md) — 2024-03-27 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Discover cutting-edge strategies for modernizing financial services software development. This blog post unveils insights from industry leaders on embracing DevSecOps, feature flags, authorization, and open source to overcome traditional banking challenges, driving innovation and efficiency in financial technology.
- [What is an authorization API?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-an-authorization-api.md) — 2024-03-26 · Furqan Butt · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. An authorization API lets you implement access control policies and authorization independent of your core solution. It also forms a part of bigger trends towards centralized authorization strategies and zero trust models to prevent security incidents.
- [What is policy-based access control (PBAC)?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-policy-based-access-control.md) — 2024-03-22 · Alex Olivier · Guide. If you’ve ever asked yourself: what is Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and wondered if your company should adopt it, read this brief explanatory guide.
- [Coarse grained vs fine grained access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/coarse-grained-vs-fine-grained-access-control.md) — 2024-03-21 · Alex Olivier · Guide. One is easy to implement, the other is complex but provides precise control. Read this post for a comparison of coarse grained & fine grained access control.
- [How to Implement RBAC authorization in Nest.JS](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/nest-js-authorization.md) — 2024-03-20 · Rene Pot · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Understanding the most common methods of integrating Cerbos authorization within NestJS.
- [SQLAlchemy authorization: How to implement RBAC & ABAC](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/sqlalchemy-authorization.md) — 2024-03-20 · Sam Lock · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Read our guide on how to set up SQLAlchemy with Cerbos for easy authorization or user permission aware data filtering or fetching in your application.
- [Guide to Web3 authorization & authentication](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/web3-authorization-and-authentication.md) — 2024-03-19 · Alex Olivier · Guide. The decentralized nature of Web3 DApps requires a new generation of access controls. Read about them in our guide to Web3 authorization & authentication.
- [Guide to managing users and permissions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/managing-users-and-permissions.md) — 2024-03-18 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Read our guide to managing users and permissions; we look at the key role these activities play in ensuring the integrity of a company's digital resources.
- [Cerbos: Why and what](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-why-and-what.md) — 2024-03-17 · Emre Baran · Guide. Discover how Cerbos revolutionizes application security by simplifying the implementation and management of roles and permissions and access controls, making authorization scalable and efficient across modern architectures, and fostering innovation with its open-source, agile-friendly approach.
- [The importance of stateless architecture in authorization systems](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-importance-of-stateless-architecture-in-authorization-systems.md) — 2024-03-12 · James Walker · Guide. Going stateless might sound complicated, but it can actually simplify system deployment, maintenance, and integration. This article explores what stateless is, how it's implemented, and why it's so beneficial to real-world systems such as authorization services.
- [User roles and permissions examples](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/user-roles-and-permissions-examples.md) — 2024-03-11 · Alex Olivier · Guide. A "role" is nothing more than a collection of permissions. Read this post for a closer look at user roles and permissions and some examples of each.
- [How to prevent broken access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-prevent-broken-access-control.md) — 2024-02-29 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Prevent broken access control by enforcing strict authentication protocols and robust authorization mechanisms. Read this guide to learn 6 key strategies.
- [Securing your tech: The importance of authorization layers](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-importance-of-authorization-layers.md) — 2024-02-28 · James Walker · Guide. In this article, we'll explore how to increase your system's security with a purpose-designed authorization layer.
- [How does authorization work?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-does-authorization-work.md) — 2024-02-25 · Alex Olivier · Guide. How does authorization work? Read this article to learn about roles & permissions, the relationship between user & resource and more.
- [Cerbos PDP v0.34.0: Enhanced usability and security](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-pdp-v-0-34-0-enhanced-usability-and-security.md) — 2024-02-25 · Rohit Ghumare · Engineering, Documentation, Announcement. With the release of Cerbos PDP v0.34.0, we've taken significant strides in enhancing the usability of our software and bolstering security measures to ensure your applications remain secure and compliant with the latest standards.
- [How to add authorization to a Flask application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/flask-authorization.md) — 2024-02-22 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Reliable authorization is vital if you hope to create a secure web app. Read this guide and learn how to implement authorization in a Flask application.
- [Cerbos Hub’s Collaborative IDE: Craft access control policies in your browser in real-time](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-hubs-collaborative-ide-craft-access-control-policies-in-your-browser-in-real-time.md) — 2024-02-22 · Rohit Ghumare · Engineering, Documentation, Guide. This article introduces the in-browser IDE Playground, available to Cerbos Hub users. The playground is designed to streamline access control management, providing a central collaborative environment for developer, product, or security teams to work on authorization policies together.
- [How to add authorization to an Angular application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/angular-authorization.md) — 2024-02-14 · Alex Olivier · Guide. In this brief guide, we take a close look at how to implement authorization in an Angular application using 7 simple steps. Read now to learn more.
- [Upgraded user-defined output, audit log improvements, and more - Cerbos PDP v0.33](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/upgraded-user-defined-output-audit-log-improvements-and-more-cerbos-pdp-v-0-33.md) — 2024-02-13 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The v0.33 release of Cerbos PDP is packed with new features including an upgraded user-defined output, audit log improvements, and more.
- [Elevating cybersecurity in 2024: The imperative for stronger authorization practices](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/elevating-cybersecurity-in-2024-the-imperative-for-stronger-authorization-practices.md) — 2024-01-31 · Emre Baran · Guide. This article highlights the importance of robust authorization in cybersecurity, discussing the impact of 2023's data breaches and advocating for scalable, centralized systems. It offers strategies for enhancing security and adapting to evolving threats, emphasizing authorization's role in protecting digital assets.
- [How to implement authorization in a React application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/react-authorization.md) — 2024-01-16 · Alex Olivier · Guide, Integration. React is a JS-based framework & UI development tool popular with web developers. Read our guide on how to implement authorization in a React application.
- [Nuxt authorization: How to implement fine-grained access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/nuxt-authorization-how-to-implement-fine-grained-access-control.md) — 2024-01-12 · Aldin Kiselica · Documentation, Guide, Integration. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Cerbos to add fine-grained access control to any Nuxt web application, simplifying authorization as a result.

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- [Role-based access control examples | RBAC explained](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/role-based-access-control-examples.md) — 2023-12-25 · Alex Olivier · Guide. RBAC enables organizations to parse access to system resources based on roles and permissions. Read this post for Role-Based Access Control examples.
- [Managing access control policies and PDPs with Cerbos Hub](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/managing-access-control-policies-and-pd-ps-with-cerbos-hub.md) — 2023-12-21 · Aldin Kiselica · Guide. In this piece, we’ll walk through a common use case; a simple SaaS application, CerbFinance, with multiple user roles and permissions. And you’ll see how Cerbos Hub manages the changes in policy definitions, making the changes available in the application in real-time.
- [Authorize on the edge with Cerbos Hub and Embedded PDP bundles](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorize-on-the-edge-with-cerbos-hub-and-embedded-pdp-bundles.md) — 2023-12-19 · Aldin Kiselica · Guide. This post focuses on Embedded PDPs, a feature essential for managing authorization in distributed applications. We explore how Embedded PDPs can be utilized within Cerbos Hub to streamline and optimize authorization at the edge.
- [What is multi tenancy? | Definition & guide](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-multi-tenancy.md) — 2023-12-12 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Multi-tenancy is a type of software architecture that enables a single instance of an application to serve multiple customers or tenants. Learn more here.
- [Get started with Cerbos Hub](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/get-started-with-cerbos-hub.md) — 2023-12-07 · Aldin Kiselica · Guide. While Cerbos PDP enables you to make decisions against your access control policies, Cerbos Hub helps you manage and synchronize PDP instances across all your apps and services, increasing security through consistency in policies everywhere, and saving you hours of time.
- [What are user permissions? | Find out here](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-are-user-permissions.md) — 2023-12-05 · Alex Olivier · Guide. User permissions are rights and privileges assigned to users of a system that determine what the user can see and do. Read this article for more information.
- [Transition to OpenTelemetry, enhanced policy testing, and more - Cerbos v0.32](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/transition-to-open-telemetry-enhanced-policy-testing-and-more-cerbos-v-0-32.md) — 2023-11-30 · Aldin Kiselica · Documentation. The v0.32 release of Cerbos is packed with new features such as flexible policy testing, support for derived roles inspection, TLS certificate rotation automation, and more.
- [Why organizations are turning to decoupled authorization solutions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/why-organizations-are-turning-to-decoupled-authorization-solutions.md) — 2023-11-20 · Alexander Couëdelo · Guide. As organizations strive to secure their digital assets, many are turning to decoupled authorization solutions for out-of-the-box best security practices. Here's why people are turning to decoupling authorization for improved productivity, security, and reliability.
- [How to break down silos in your authorization management](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-break-down-silos-in-your-authorization-management.md) — 2023-11-13 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Silos limit our potential and obstruct clear communication and collaboration. Breaking down these barriers in authorization management not only paves the way for technical advancements but also fosters a culture of inclusivity and shared understanding.
- [Policy testing flexibility, configurable concurrent streams, and more - Cerbos v0.31](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/policy-testing-flexibility-configurable-concurrent-streams-and-more-cerbos-v031.md) — 2023-11-02 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The v0.31 release of Cerbos is packed with new features such as policy testing flexibility and configurable concurrent streams.
- [Roles and permissions definition | A brief guide](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/roles-and-permissions-definition.md) — 2023-10-22 · Alex Olivier · Guide. In this brief guide, the experts at Cerbos provide a clear definition of roles and permissions. Read the guide now to learn more.
- [What is stateless authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/what-is-stateless-authorization.md) — 2023-10-15 · Charith Ellawala · Guide. Stateless authorization offers a lightweight, easily scalable, flexible, and performant approach to access control that is well-suited to modern, cloud-native applications. Learn more about it's benefits in the following post.
- [The differences between authentication and authorization in software development](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-differences-between-authentication-and-authorization-in-software-development.md) — 2023-09-25 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Understand the differences between authentication and authorization, the various methods that can be used to implement them, and how they work together to verify users’ identity and control which resources, data, or functionality each user can access.
- [Are You Empowering Your Development Team Enough? Bridging Business Goals with Technical Execution as a CTO](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/are-you-empowering-your-development-team-enough-bridging-business-goals-with-technical-execution-as-a-cto.md) — 2023-09-20 · Alex Olivier · Guide. How do CTOs and Development Leads align the diverging worlds of business strategy and technical development? Here are a few things to consider - selecting the proper tools and methodologies, enhancing Developer Experience (DX), and ensuring that the technical roadmap complements business objectives.
- [Express authorization: Scalable authorization for applications](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/express-authorization.md) — 2023-09-19 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Cerbos’ authorization layer gives you fine-grained access control over your Express applications. Read the full guide here to learn more.
- [Variables, log rotation, JWTs and more - Cerbos v0.30](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/variables-log-rotation-jwts-and-more-cerbos-v030.md) — 2023-09-14 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The v0.30 release of Cerbos is packed with new features such as variable validation, log rotation and configurable JWT skew support.
- [Revolutionizing authorization in Laravel applications](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/revolutionizing-authorization-in-laravel-applications.md) — 2023-09-13 · Aldin Kiselica · Documentation, Guide, Integration. We just released the Cerbos Laravel SDK – a seamless way to integrate Cerbos into your Laravel applications. To show its potential, we also built a demo project. This piece walks you through both of these, showing you how to simply use Cerbos to solve your authZ challenges.
- [FastAPI authorization: Get fine-grained access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fastapi-authorization.md) — 2023-09-10 · Alex Olivier · Guide. With Cerbos’ authorization layer, you can easily implement centralized management of access control policies in your FastAPI application. Read our guide.
- [From HTTP to gRPC: Trials, tribulations and triumphs of porting our Python SDK](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/from-http-to-grpc-trials-tribulations-and-triumphs-of-porting-our-python-sdk.md) — 2023-09-07 · Sam Lock · Guide, Integration. We’ve built a number of SDKs to streamline communication with the PDPs. Up until recently, the Python SDK was the only one which still used the HTTP API. This post describes the trials and tribulations that Sam Lock undertook in order to port it across to the wonders of gRPC.
- [Unlocking efficient authZ with Cerbos’ Query Plan](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/unlocking-efficient-authz-with-cerbos-query-plan.md) — 2023-09-05 · Aldin Kiselica · Guide. While Cerbos APIs can manage batch requests, filtering a vast number of records becomes inefficient. This is especially true if extracting a large dataset from the source results in discarding most of the data post-filtering. This piece showcases the solution for such a challenge - Cerbos' Query Plan
- [Sidecar solutions: Enhancing microservices without the overhead](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/sidecar-solutions-enhancing-microservices-without-the-overhead.md) — 2023-08-31 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Alex Olivier delves into microservices, offering insights on implementing sidecar containers, balancing resources, and learning from industry success stories.
- [Mongoose adapter for Cerbos Query Plans](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/mongoose-adapter-for-cerbos-query-plans.md) — 2023-08-29 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Implement authorization based filtering using Mongoose and Cerbos Query Plans
- [Okta authorization: How to improve security & scalability](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/okta-authorization.md) — 2023-08-23 · Alex Olivier · Guide. Integrating Okta and Cerbos for authorization can produce various benefits especially when it comes to access and identity management. Read our full guide.
- [Nuxt authorization guide](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/nuxt-authorization.md) — 2023-08-23 · Alex Olivier · Guide. When you integrate Cerbos’ authorization layer with Nuxt.js you can provide the resulting applications with tighter security. Read our full guide here
- [The Importance of Data Security for Startups](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-importance-of-data-security-for-startups.md) — 2023-08-21 · Emre Baran · Guide. The importance of data security for startups; adopting strategies like "zero trust" and robust authorization is vital.
- [REST vs. gRPC](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/rest-vs-grpc.md) — 2023-08-08 · Gints Dreimanis · Guide. Explore the two leading ways for building APIs: REST and gRPC, and what use case each one is best for.
- [Lenient scope search in Cerbos policies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/lenient-scope-search-in-cerbos-policies.md) — 2023-08-02 · Aldin Kiselica · Documentation, Guide. This piece talks about one of the newest Cerbos features, introduced in v0.29. Lenient Scope Search means that if a policy with passed scope does not exist in the store, Cerbos will attempt to find a partial match by searching the policy within scopes that are part of the same hierarchy as the passed scope.
- [Flexible policy composition - Injecting environment specific information into Cerbos policies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/injecting-environment-specific-information-into-cerbos-policies.md) — 2023-07-30 · Aldin Kiselica · Documentation, Guide. The guide on one of Cerbos' newest features - introduced in v0.29. In this piece you'll learn how to use the new globals field in order to define a single set of access control policies for multiple environments.
- [Flexible policy composition - Local & export variables in Cerbos policies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/local-and-export-variables-in-cerbos-policies.md) — 2023-07-26 · Aldin Kiselica · Documentation, Guide. The guide on one of Cerbos' newest features - introduced in v0.29. In this piece we'll explore how to leverage exportVariables feature and compare it with the old approach of using local variables within policies.
- [Leveraging SAML SSO with Cerbos and BoxyHQ: Elevating enterprise authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/leveraging-saml-sso-with-cerbos-and-boxy-hq-elevating-enterprise-authorization.md) — 2023-07-24 · Kiran K · Guide, Integration. In a recent step-by-step tutorial, Senior Developer at BoxyHQ, Kiran K, walked through the process of integrating BoxyHQ's open source Enterprise SSO solution, SAML Jackson, with Cerbos to enable SAML SSO-based (Single Sign-On) enterprise authentication and authorization, with Okta as the Identity Provider (IdP).
- [Shared variables, globals, scope updates and more - Cerbos v0.29](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/shared-variables-globals-scope-updates-and-more-cerbos-v029.md) — 2023-07-19 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The v0.29 release of Cerbos is packed with new features such as shared variables, support for globals, updates to scopes and more.
- [Nested fields support with Prisma Query Plans](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/nested-fields-support-with-prisma-query-plans.md) — 2023-07-17 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Integration. Supporting nested relation fields with the Prisma Query Plan adapter
- [Authorization remains #1 issue - OWASP 2023 Top 10 List](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-remains-1-issue-owasp-2023-top-10-list.md) — 2023-07-11 · Anna Paykina · Guide. The top issue of the 2023 edition of the OWASP Top 10 is, yet again, authorization. In this blog post we explore the importance of authZ and approaches to mitigating access control vulnerabilities.
- [Unlocking cybersecurity: A deep dive into authentication vs authorization in software development](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/unlocking-cybersecurity-a-deep-dive-into-authentication-vs-authorization-in-software-development.md) — 2023-07-02 · Emre Baran · Guide. In a piece for TechBullion, Emre Baran explores the significance of authentication and authorization in software development. The piece delves into the methodologies of these cybersecurity measures, highlighting their relevance in ensuring the protection of systems and data. Baran underscores the necessity of understanding these aspects to develop a resilient, user-friendly, and threat-resistant digital environment.
- [Policy outputs, storage overlays and more - Cerbos v0.27 & v0.28 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/policy-outputs-storage-overlays-and-more-cerbos-v027-v028-release.md) — 2023-06-13 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. Cerbos v0.27 & v0.28 adds support for user-defined outputs from policies, storage overlay support for fallback scenarios also Kafka and tests suites updates
- [The power of secure code in protecting digital environments](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-power-of-secure-code-in-protecting-digital-environments.md) — 2023-06-08 · Adrian Bridgwater · Guide. In a Forbes article by Adrian Bridgwater, Cerbos' Product Lead, Alex Olivier, underscores the often-overlooked importance of secure coding. Olivier advocates for prioritizing code integrity and outlines five key pillars of secure code to safeguard software and protect organizational reputation.
- [Securing your business's digital frontier: A comprehensive guide to identity and access management](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/securing-your-businesss-digital-frontier-a-comprehensive-guide-to-identity-and-access-management.md) — 2023-06-04 · Alex Olivier · Guide. This piece by Alex Olivier for HackerNoon, delves deep into the world of Identity and Access Management (IAM), outlining its pivotal role in fortifying business cybersecurity, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- [Decoupled authorization: Navigating technical challenges and best practices](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/decoupled-authorization-navigating-technical-challenges-and-best-practices.md) — 2023-06-01 · Emre Baran · Guide. Emre Baran examines decoupled authorization for secure software development, and goes over points that should be considered prior to implementing decoupled authorization.
- [Taking the pain out of authorization and user permissions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/taking-the-pain-out-of-authorization-and-user-permissions.md) — 2023-05-10 · Cate Lawrence · Guide. Cerbos separates authorization logic from the application code, boosting scalability, security, and adaptability. This separation makes updating authorization straightforward, enabling swift and secure adjustments to meet ever-changing business needs.
- [Cerbos Cloud support, Kafka sink and improved test outputs - Cerbos v0.26 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-cloud-support-kafka-sink-and-test-outputs-cerbos-v-0-26-release.md) — 2023-04-16 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos - v0.26 - includes support for Cerbos Cloud, a Kafka sink for audit logs and improvements to the tests output.
- [How to use Cerbos effectively](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-use-cerbos-effectively.md) — 2023-04-04 · Charith Ellawala · Documentation, Guide. We are committed to making Cerbos a delightful piece of software to use, and, in this article, we aim to showcase all the (free!) developer productivity tools and features that we have built to achieve that goal.
- [Why audit logs are important](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/why-audit-logs-are-important.md) — 2023-03-19 · James Walker · Guide. Audit logs capture information about key events that occur within software systems, and create a historical record. Administrators and compliance teams can use them to investigate user actions, spot suspect activity, and adhere to regulatory frameworks.
- [How decoupling can help you write better software](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-decoupling-can-help-you-write-better-software.md) — 2023-03-09 · Kovid Rathee · Guide. In this article, we look at the basics of decoupling, how decoupling can help you write better software and what to look for when identifying components for decoupling.
- [How to secure your Remix app routes with Cerbos?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-secure-your-remix-app-routes-with-cerbos.md) — 2023-03-06 · Mark Schenouda · Documentation, Guide, Integration. In this tutorial, we will show you how to secure your Remix app routes with Cerbos. Cerbos is an open-source policy engine for authorizing access to resources. We gonna walk you through the steps of applying authorization in your Remix app with Cerbos. We will also show you how to use Cerbos to secure your routes and APIs.
- [Should you choose gRPC over REST when designing your APIs?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/should-you-choose-grpc-over-rest-when-designing-your-apis.md) — 2023-03-02 · Emre Baran · Guide. If you head up a development team, then choosing which architectural style to use is a critical decision to make when building up an IT infrastructure. APIs remain an important part of this decision making process; they are mediators through which information is sourced and transferred.
- [Accessing Protected Resources in Next.js with Prisma](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/accessing-protected-resources-in-nextjs-with-prisma.md) — 2023-02-24 · Sam Lock · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Combine the power of Next.js and Prisma to build fast, secure, and dynamic web applications by integrating Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer
- [How to run your software startup more effectively](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-run-your-software-startup-more-effectively.md) — 2023-02-17 · Charith Ellawala · Guide. Running an effective software engineering organization is a formidable task at the best of times. Being a startup – especially when the core product is software – adds an extra dimension of difficulty on top of this because of the need to move fast and deliver in an extremely resource constrained environment.
- [Simplifying administrative tasks with the Admin API - Cerbos v0.25 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/simplifying-administrative-tasks-with-the-admin-api-cerbos-v025-release.md) — 2023-02-15 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.25, contains improvements to the Admin API to make administrative tasks easier and error-free.
- [Supercharging your policy rules with self-service custom roles](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/supercharging-your-policy-rules-with-self-service-custom-roles.md) — 2023-02-07 · Sam Lock · Guide, Integration. Managing self-service custom roles, with static attributes, or dynamic updates
- [Authorization trends 2023: Delegation to specialized solutions & advancements in technology](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-trends-2023-delegation-to-specialized-solutions-advancements-in-technology.md) — 2023-01-28 · Emre Baran · Guide. Authorization is still a brand new space and we saw lots of solutions launching with different approaches to tackling authorization delivering on RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- [Stateful authorization is an anti-pattern](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/stateful-authorization-is-an-anti-pattern.md) — 2023-01-20 · Alex Olivier · Guide. The authorization layer needs access to this state to do its job, which raises an interesting question about where to keep the state.
- [Modern Web podcast: Authorization on the web](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/modern-web-cerbos-podcast.md) — 2023-01-13 · Emre Baran · Presentation. How authorization (AuthZ) differs from authentication (AuthN), how Cerbos's stateless nature makes decoupling authorization simpler.
- [Add authorization to your SvelteKit app: Full guide](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/sveltekit-authorization.md) — 2023-01-12 · Adam Barrett · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Want to have fine-grained authorization for your SvelteKit app? Read our detailed guide for the full step-by-step breakdown.
- [Audit log filtering, database improvements and Helm updates - Cerbos v0.24 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/audit-log-filtering-database-improvements-and-helm-updates.md) — 2023-01-09 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos - v0.24 - includes updates to audit logging filters, database connection improvements and more options when deploying via Helm.

## 2022 (39)

- [How Debite built scalable and reliable access controls with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-debite-built-scalable-and-reliable-access-controls-with-cerbos.md) — 2022-12-22 · Anna Paykina · Success Story. A scalable and secure authorization layer enables quicker product rollout
- [How to add global authorization for Python microservices](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-add-global-authorization-for-python-microservices.md) — 2022-12-15 · Milap Neupane · Guide. Microservices-oriented architecture has evolved from a buzzword to standard architecture practice for building large-scale applications. Applications are designed as blocks of independently deployable services and communicate with each other via lightweight mechanisms.
- [Threading together fine-grained auth with Stytch and Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/threading-together-fine-grained-auth-with-stytch-and-cerbos.md) — 2022-12-08 · Sam Lock · Documentation, Guide, Integration. How to integrate Stytch Email Magic Links and Session Management with Cerbos, for effortless authentication and authorization, using Python FastAPI
- [Designing an authorization model that scales with your business](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/designing-an-authorization-model-that-scales-with-your-business.md) — 2022-12-07 · Emre Baran · Guide. Authorization is one of the hardest parts of security to get right and one of the most expensive to fix when you get it wrong.
- [How Utility Warehouse upgraded and centralized its access control system with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-utility-warehouse-upgraded-and-centralized-its-access-control-system-with-cerbos.md) — 2022-12-06 · Anna Paykina · Success Story. Utility Warehouse wanted to upgrade its cumbersome in-house authorization system. Rob Crowe, the Principal Engineer at Utility Warehouse, selected Cerbos to centralize how the company managed user permissions.
- [Tooling improvements, query plan updates and Helm annotations - Cerbos v0.23 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/tooling-improvements-query-plan-updates-and-helm-annotations-cerbos-v023-release.md) — 2022-12-02 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.23 includes updates to the cerbosctl, improved query plans and updates to the Helm charts and more
- [Let’s talk about role management - planning user roles for your application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/lets-talk-about-role-management-planning-user-roles-for-your-application.md) — 2022-11-30 · Keanan Koppenhaver · Guide. By identifying roles, resources and how they map together, you can implement an efficient system that ensures your users and applications are secure.
- [Dynamic policy management with the Admin API](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/dynamic-policy-management-with-the-admin-api.md) — 2022-11-10 · Sam Lock · Guide, Integration. Building an interface to manage your Cerbos policies, with Go and React.
- [Optimized query plans, debugging controls and more - Cerbos v0.22 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/optimized-query-plans-debugging-controls-and-more-cerbos-v022-release.md) — 2022-11-07 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.22, includes optimized query plans, improved policy loading and more controls for debugging requests.
- [How Cerbos Helps Salesroom Simplify and Scale Access Control Quickly and Securely](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-cerbos-helps-salesroom-simplify-and-scale-access-control-quickly-and-securely.md) — 2022-10-26 · Anna Paykina · Success Story. Salesroom wanted to get permission control right the first time. Chuck Hardy, the Head of Engineering at Salesroom, and David Workman, a Senior Software Engineer chose Cerbos to simplify the implementation and management of user permissions and authorization.
- [Cerbos recognised as Best in API Security at API World Awards 2022](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-recognised-as-best-in-api-security-at-api-world-awards-2022.md) — 2022-10-21 · Alex Olivier · Announcement. Cerbos, the leading open source authorization software company, announced today that it has been recognized as the winner of the Best in API Security award at API World 2022, continuing its leadership within the category.
- [Implementing Cerbos in a multi-tenant system](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/implementing-cerbos-in-a-multitenant-system.md) — 2022-10-04 · James Walker · Guide. Learn how to implement a simple multi-tenant application with policy-based access control using Cerbos.
- [Fine-grained logging and request limits, query plan improvements - Cerbos v0.21 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fine-grained-logging-and-request-limits-query-plan-improvements-cerbos-v021-release.md) — 2022-09-21 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.21, includes more fine-grained control over the request limits and metadata logs as well as improvements to the Query Plan output.
- [GraphQL authorization: Adding authorization to a server](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/graphql-authorization.md) — 2022-09-13 · Kevin Kimani · Guide. Want to learn the best practices for implementing access control patterns in GraphQL APIs? Read this article for our full guide on GraphQL authorization.
- [Authorization Challenges in a Multitenant System](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-challenges-in-a-multitenant-system.md) — 2022-09-09 · James Walker · Guide. Learn about the authorization problems that multitenancy creates. It’s important to understand these before you start building your system, so you can anticipate potential weaknesses and build adequate protections to address them.
- [Testing time, wildcards, SQLAlchemy and more - Cerbos v0.20 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/testing-time-wildcards-sqlalchemy-and-more-cerbos-v020-release.md) — 2022-08-24 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.20, includes improvements in unit testing with dates and better wildcard support, a SQLAlchemy adapter, some SDK updates and a number of UX updates to the playground.
- [Authorization in the Context of SOC 2 and Other Certifications](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-in-the-context-of-soc-2-and-other-certifications.md) — 2022-08-12 · Alex Doukas · Guide. Authorization is integral to data security. To ensure that all aspects of access control, including authorization, meet the criteria, organizations must employ a series of security tools, technologies and processes designed to protect the network, systems, applications and other assets.'
- [Bring Your Own Identity: What Does It Mean for Authorization?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/bring-your-own-identity-what-does-it-mean-for-authorization.md) — 2022-07-26 · James Konik · Guide. The recent trend of separating these two components - dubbed Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI) by Gartner - is gaining traction and comes with a number of benefits.
- [Why Cerbos doesn’t support role inheritance](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/role-hierarchies.md) — 2022-07-19 · Sam Lock · Documentation, Guide. Implementing role relationships in your Cerbos system.
- [The Secret Ingredients: protobufs and gRPC](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/cerbos-secret-ingredients-protobufs-and-grpc.md) — 2022-07-14 · Charith Ellawala · Engineering. Find out how Cerbos leverages protobuf and gRPC for defining all core features and interfaces.
- [Performance, Tracing, PHP SDK, Playground Updates - Cerbos v0.19 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/performance-tracing-php-sdk-playground-updates-cerbos-v019-release.md) — 2022-07-05 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.19, includes performance improvements and tracing support, a new PHP SDK, Cerbos Maven Central releases and a number of UX updates to the Playground.
- [AWS Cognito + Cerbos - Fine-tuned Authorization for your FastAPI application](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/using-aws-cognito-with-cerbos-how-to.md) — 2022-06-30 · Sam Lock · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Learn how to set up AWS Cognito with your Cerbos + FastAPI application.
- [Tooling, Performance, .NET SDK, JS SDK, Playground - Cerbos v0.18 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/tooling-performance-net-sdk-js-sdk-playground-cerbos-v018-release.md) — 2022-06-16 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.18, includes performance and tooling improvements, a new .NET SDK, a major upgrade to the Javascript SDK, and the addition of viewing the Query Plan in the Playground.
- [File-based Audit Log, Wildcards, and Ruby SDK - Cerbos v0.17 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/file-based-audit-log-wildcards-and-ruby-sdk-cerbos-v017-release.md) — 2022-06-06 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.17, includes a new file-based audit logging backend, wildcard role support, and a new Ruby SDK.
- [Using AWS Cognito with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/using-aws-cognito-with-cerbos.md) — 2022-05-26 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Learn how to integrate your users and roles in AWS Cognito with Cerbos for powerful, fine-grained access control.
- [GitHub’s inconsistent access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/githubs-inconsistent-access-control.md) — 2022-05-19 · Andrew Haines · Engineering. GitHub’s repository settings page suffers from a frustrating anti-pattern where policies are not enforced consistently - there’s a better way to keep access control rules consistent between layers and decouple policies from code.
- [Unified API, Query Plan GA, Python and Rust SDKs - Cerbos v0.16 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/unified-api-query-plan-ga-python-and-rust-sdks-cerbos-v016-release.md) — 2022-05-05 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos, v0.16, includes a new unified API for checking permissions, promotion of the Query Plan to GA, and several updates to the REPL - also Cerbos Python and Rust SDKs have been released.
- [REPL, IDE Support, Testing and more - Cerbos v0.15 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/repl-ide-support-testing-and-more-cerbos-v0-15-release.md) — 2022-04-04 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos includes a new REPL for developing conditions for policies, rich IDE support for a better authoring experience and improvements to the testing framework.
- [Using Clerk with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/using-clerk-with-cerbos.md) — 2022-03-17 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Clerk solves user management so developers can stop reinventing the wheel and focus on their core business - the same mission Cerbos has for authorization
- [Understanding Context-Aware Permissions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/understanding-context-aware-permissions.md) — 2022-03-10 · Emre Baran and Nikhila Jain · Guide. Context-aware permissions (CAP) promote anywhere-anytime access by making computers intelligent enough to sense and react to their environment. You can use CAP in your software to define who needs access to what information at what time, so that your users can access only the information and services they need based on their location, the time of day, or other context factors.
- [Matrix Testing, Time Conditions and more - Cerbos v0.14 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/matrix-testing-time-conditions-and-more-cerbos-v0-14-release.md) — 2022-03-08 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. This release includes many improvements that enhance policy authoring and testing along with updates that make deployment, management, and monitoring of Cerbos easier.
- [Using WorkOS SSO with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/using-workos-sso-with-cerbos.md) — 2022-03-03 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Single Sign-On (SSO) is the most frequently occurring requirement for enterprise organisations looking to adopt new SaaS applications. WorkOS streamlines this process and can be integrated with Cerbos for context-aware access controls.
- [Filtering data using authorization logic](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/filtering-data-using-authorization-logic.md) — 2022-02-25 · Dennis Buduev · Engineering, Guide. With the latest release of Cerbos, we introduced a new experimental query planner API to help address this problem efficiently in a language-agnostic way. This article describes how we designed and developed that API.
- [Scoped Policies, Simplified Run and SQL Server Support - Cerbos v0.13 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/scoped-policies-simplified-run-and-sql-server-support-cerbos-v013-release.md) — 2022-02-23 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest release of Cerbos adds a new major capability with scoped policies, a streamlined way to get started with the run command and support for SQL Server as a storage engine.
- [How To Incrementally Adopt New Authorization Systems](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-incrementally-adopt-new-authorization-systems.md) — 2022-02-15 · Ahmed Hashesh · Guide. Implementing a whole new authorization system can be a daunting task because of the complexities involved - find out how to approach this in a sensible and considered way.
- [Keeping documentation in sync with source code](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/keeping-documentation-in-sync-with-source-code.md) — 2022-02-01 · Oğuzhan Durgun · Engineering. In this article, Cerbos engineer Oğuzhan Durgun (@oguzhand95) describes how Cerbos configuration documentation is automatically kept in sync with the Go source code.Cerbos is a highly customizable appli...
- [Authorization aware data fetching, cerbosctl improvements and more - Cerbos v0.12 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-aware-data-fetching-cerbosctl-improvements-and-more-cerbos-v0-12-release.md) — 2022-01-25 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest version of Cerbos has been released with the focus of providing a smart mechanism to pass authorization logic down into your data storage layer, improvements to the cerbosctl, and a couple of enhancements to schema and test data...
- [The Case Against Token-Based Authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-case-against-token-based-authorization.md) — 2022-01-13 · James Hickey · Guide. The latest version of Cerbos has been released with the focus of providing a smart mechanism to pass authorization logicdown into your data storage layer, improvements to the cerbosctl, and a couple of enhancements to schema and test dataAuthorization aware data fetching...
- [Extending Okta with Cerbos for fine-grained access control](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/extending-okta-with-cerbos-for-fine-grained-access-control.md) — 2022-01-05 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. Okta has become one of the primary identity services for enterprise applications in recent years. It’s powerful user management, authentication mechanisms and roles/groups support make it an easy choice for organisations that are managing numerous services and s...

## 2021 (12)

- [First-class schema support for attributes - Cerbos v0.11 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/first-class-schema-support-for-attributes-cerbos-v0-11-release.md) — 2021-12-20 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. The latest version of Cerbos has been released with the focus being on a streamlined experience when making check calls.With v0.11 release a schema can be optionally defined for the attributes of a principal and each of the different resources in your system. With schemas, request t...
- [Homegrown security scales and works, if you have a full time dedicated team](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/homegrown-security-scales-and-works-if-you-have-a-dedicated-team.md) — 2021-11-22 · Emre Baran & Charith Ellawala · Guide. Every software company has to make build-or-buy decisions for every part of their stack. Unless it is your core business, you don’t build a globally-distributed network of data centres: you use a Cloud provider like AWS, GCP or Azure. You don’t build authentication systems from scratch: you use a...
- [Passwordless Identity with Magic and Authorization with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/passwordless-identity-with-magic-and-authorization-with-cerbos.md) — 2021-11-02 · Alex Olivier · Documentation, Guide, Integration. The demise of passwords has long been predicted due to the ongoing leaks, hacks and breaches in recent years. There has been a lot of innovation in this space and ...
- [Speed, Hierarchies, Testing and Tokens - Cerbos v0.9 Release](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/speed-hierarchies-testing-and-tokens-cerbos-v0-9-release.md) — 2021-10-28 · Alex Olivier · Documentation. In the biggest release yet Cerbos is now faster, more secure, and integrated with the wider ecosystem. New Decision EngineWritten from the ground up to handle the specialized use cases Cerbos is designed for, the brand new ...
- [Comparing User Permissions Strategies](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/comparing-microservice-permissions-strategies.md) — 2021-10-20 · Tyler Charboneau · Guide. Microservices architectures are the dominant force in today’s software engineering realm. This infrastructure approach—despite its multiple benefits—has created quite a tangled management web. IBM has corroborated this, sharing that applica...
- [Broken Access Control is the #1 issue in OWASP 2021 Top 10](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/broken-access-control-is-the-1-issue-in-owasp-2021-top-10.md) — 2021-10-07 · Alex Olivier · Guide. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. Many will be familiar with the OWASP Top 10 which is published every few years and is used as the standard for evaluating the security of web applications. The 2021 T...
- [The never-ending product requirements of user authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-never-ending-product-requirements-of-user-authorization.md) — 2021-09-27 · Alex Olivier · Guide. This article first appeared on alexolivier.meI’ve been fortunate to work as a Product Manager across eCommerce, Marketing, Supply Chain, Fitness and Finance, and ...
- [Fully featured authorization for your Prisma app with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/fully-featured-authorization-for-your-prisma-app-with-cerbos.md) — 2021-09-14 · Alex Olivier · Integration. Prisma has come onto the Node/Typescript scene recently as a new generation of ORM. With it’s strongly-typed client, schema abstraction and great documentation, it is turning into the natural choice for modern applications. This article covers setting u...
- [The Case for Granular Permissions](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/granular-permissions.md) — 2021-08-24 · Keanan Koppenhaver · Guide. Presenting the case for granular permissions to help you select the right authorization scheme to make authorization easier.
- [Changing Business Logic in an Evolving System](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/changing-business-logic-in-an-evolving-system.md) — 2021-06-30 · James Hickey · Guide. Have you ever had to change existing business logic that was hard to understand? Did it break unrelated parts of the system when it was changed? Perhaps it had really poor documentation.Some of the most difficult software projects I’ve worked on involved working with and main...
- [The Hidden Costs of User Authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-user-authorization.md) — 2021-05-31 · Malte Stoever · Guide. Authentication and authorization are the two central pillars of security of any application. Authentication is the identification of valid users and authorization is the process of determining what those users are allowed to do. User authorization plays a crucial role in securing access to your a...
- [Why are we building Cerbos?](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/why-are-we-building-cerbos.md) — 2021-03-20 · Emre Baran & Charith Ellawala · Announcement. We are building Cerbos because when it comes to building key pieces for software infrastructure and frameworks, we believe software engineers should not reinvent the wheel. Authorization is often an inconvenient necessity -- especially for new projects. You have a great idea, build ...