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Scoped Policies, Simplified Run and SQL Server Support - Cerbos v0.13 Release
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
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
In this article, Cerbos engineer OÄuzhan 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
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
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
Okta has become one of the primary identity services for enterprise applications in recent years. Itâs powerful user management, authentication mechanisms and roles/groups support make it an easy choice for organisations that are managing numerous services and s...
First-class schema support for attributes - Cerbos v0.11 Release
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
Every software company has to make build-or-buy decisions for every part of their stack. Unless it is your core business, you donât build a globally-distributed network of data centres: you use a Cloud provider like AWS, GCP or Azure. You donât build authentication systems from scratch: you use a...
Passwordless Identity with Magic and Authorization with Cerbos
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
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
Microservices architectures are the dominant force in todayâs software engineering realm. This infrastructure approachâdespite its multiple benefitsâhas 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
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...
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