Guide
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Dynamic policy management with the Admin API
Building an interface to manage your Cerbos policies, with Go and React.
Implementing Cerbos in a multi-tenant system
Learn how to implement a simple multi-tenant application with policy-based access control using Cerbos.
GraphQL authorization: Adding authorization to a server
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
Learn about the authorization problems that multitenancy creates. Itâs important to understand these before you start building your system, so you can anticipate potential weaknesses and build adequate protections to address them.
Authorization in the Context of SOC 2 and Other Certifications
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?
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 doesnât support role inheritance
Implementing role relationships in your Cerbos system.
AWS Cognito + Cerbos - Fine-tuned Authorization for your FastAPI application
Learn how to set up AWS Cognito with your Cerbos + FastAPI application.
Using AWS Cognito with Cerbos
Learn how to integrate your users and roles in AWS Cognito with Cerbos for powerful, fine-grained access control.
Using Clerk with Cerbos
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
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.
Using WorkOS SSO with Cerbos
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
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.
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.
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...
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 ...