Cerbos authorization for Ping Identity
Use PingOne directory data, population attributes, and federated identities from Ping Identity to power fine-grained authorization in Cerbos.
Enterprise federation
Authorize users from any federated identity source connected through PingFederate using consistent Cerbos policies
Population-aware policies
Write authorization rules that factor in PingOne populations, enabling per-tenant or per-business-unit access control
Built for enterprise scale
Cerbos evaluates policies locally with sub-millisecond latency, matching the performance demands of Ping Identity enterprise deployments
How Cerbos works with Ping Identity
Ping Identity handles authentication, confirming who a user is. Cerbos handles authorization, deciding what that user can do. Together they give you a complete access control stack without coupling identity logic to business rules.
Cerbos lets you write fine-grained, context-aware authorization policies in human-readable YAML. Policies are decoupled from application code so product and security teams can update permissions without a release cycle.
Because Cerbos runs as a stateless Policy Decision Point (PDP) next to your application, authorization checks are sub-millisecond and scale horizontally with your infrastructure.
Authorization for enterprise identity infrastructure
Ping Identity is built for large-scale enterprise environments: federated identity across multiple IdPs, population-based user segmentation, and centralized directory services. Cerbos adds resource-level authorization on top of that identity infrastructure, using the attributes Ping Identity already manages.
How it works
- Users authenticate through PingOne or PingFederate, your application receives tokens with group memberships, population data, and custom attributes.
- Your application passes identity data to Cerbos as principal attributes, along with the target resource and desired action.
- Cerbos evaluates policies that reference Ping Identity groups, populations, custom attributes, and resource properties.
- Your application enforces the decision, authorization logic is defined in policies, not scattered across application code.
Enterprise federation meets fine-grained authorization
Organizations using Ping Identity often manage identities across multiple directories, business units, and partner organizations. Cerbos gives you a single policy layer that applies consistent authorization rules regardless of where the identity originates, using population data and federated attributes to tailor access per context.
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FAQ
How does Cerbos use Ping Identity user attributes?
When a user authenticates through PingOne or PingFederate, your application receives token claims containing group memberships, population assignments, and custom attributes. These are passed to Cerbos as principal attributes, where policies can reference them to make authorization decisions.
Does Cerbos work with PingFederate for federated identities?
Yes. PingFederate handles federation across SAML, OIDC, and WS-Federation identity providers. Regardless of where the identity originates, Cerbos receives the same normalized principal attributes and evaluates policies consistently.
Can I use Ping Identity populations in Cerbos policies?
Yes. PingOne populations (used to segment user groups across business units, geographies, or tenants) can be passed as principal attributes. Cerbos policies can then enforce different access rules based on a user's population membership.
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Cerbos + Ping Identity
- Cerbos extends Ping Identity roles with fine-grained, attribute-based permissions
- Policies defined in human-readable YAML, managed as code
- Authorization logic decoupled from application code
- Sub-millisecond policy evaluation via stateless PDP
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What is Cerbos?
Cerbos is an end-to-end enterprise authorization software for Zero Trust environments and AI-powered systems. It enforces fine-grained, contextual, and continuous authorization across apps, APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, services, and workloads.
Cerbos consists of an open-source Policy Decision Point, Enforcement Point integrations, and a centrally managed Policy Administration Plane (Cerbos Hub) that coordinates unified policy-based authorization across your architecture. Enforce least privilege & maintain full visibility into access decisions with Cerbos authorization.