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Demos, implementation guides, product updates and broader takes on authorization, identity and security.

10 critical challenges CISOs face in 2026 and how to solve them
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.

Cerbos PDP v0.50.0: Stricter CEL, more predictable scope plans, and faster evaluation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
What Cerbos is, and why it should be the go to for authorization.

Mongoose adapter for Cerbos Query Plans v2.0
Speed up authorization in MongoDB with Cerbos Query Plans and the enhanced Mongoose adapter. Enforce policy logic in-database and return only allowed records.
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