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title: "Personalized access control for every SaaS tenant"
description: "Per-tenant authorization policy in multi-tenant SaaS: define and deploy policies for each tenant, customer or organizational unit from Cerbos Hub."
canonical: "https://www.cerbos.dev/features-benefits-and-use-cases/per-tenant-custom-policies"
source: "https://www.cerbos.dev/features-benefits-and-use-cases/per-tenant-custom-policies"
---

# Personalized access control for every SaaS tenant

Define and manage tenant specific policies dynamically for every tenant, customer, or organizational unit.

## Fine-grained, tenant specific authorization

### Enterprise ready tenant policies

Allow your customers to define their roles and permissions, unlocking enterprise contracts with complex access requirements.

- Set up, manage, and deploy tenant policies, fast and reliably.
- Integrate policies from any Git provider, CI/CD, CLI, API, or direct UI uploads.
- Use distinct Policy Stores for each tenant & groups of tenants to keep clean separation.
- Isolate tenant specific logic from core policies & other tenant policies for safer changes.
- Automate compilation, validation, testing, and deployment pipelines.

[Learn more](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos-hub/policy-stores)

### Realtime, tenant driven policy workflows

Deliver dynamic, tenant specific logic instantly, without complex custom code or infrastructure.

- Enable unique tenant roles and overrides via API driven Policy Stores.
- Allow internal tools or customer portals to push tenant policy updates securely via API.
- Combine static base policies with dynamic tenant rules in a single, versioned deployment.
- Managed distribution of policy bundles to all PDPs, automatically.
- Eliminate custom infrastructure for tenant policy management, saving engineering time and cost.

[Talk to an engineer](https://www.cerbos.dev/workshop)

### Audit logs with full traceability

Complete visibility into tenant specific access decisions for confident debugging, compliance, and audits

- View active policies and version history for both core and tenant specific polices directly in Cerbos Hub.
- Trace every authorization decision back to the exact policy version that enforced it.
- Maintain structured, centralized logs to simplify audits and meet enterprise compliance requirements.

[Talk to an engineer](https://www.cerbos.dev/workshop)

## Per tenant authorization with Cerbos Hub

1. **Create Policy Stores** — Define Policy Stores in Cerbos Hub. Organize policies by tenant, customer group, or specific feature set.
2. **Fill in your tenant policies** — Add tenant-specific policies via API, programmatically through Git & CI/CD, or with direct upload or CLI.
3. **Build unified deployment** — Build a single versioned deployment that merges tenant specific and base policies, automatically validated and tested.
4. **Automated distribution and audit** — Deploy validated policies to all PDPs automatically, with every change versioned.

## Works with your existing tools, workflows, and infrastructure

- **Flexible policy sources** — Add tenant policies from any Git provider, any CI/CD tool, Cerbos Hub API, cerbosctl CLI, direct UI upload; no lock-in.
- **SDKs for every stack** — Use updated SDKs for JS, Go, Python, Java, .NET, Rust, PHP, Ruby for programmatic policy management.
- **Deployment targets** — Deploy to Cerbos PDPs in containers, serverless, edge, or multi region clusters.
- **Compliance ready audit logs** — Ensure audit readiness for SOC2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and GDPR.

## Learn how to build tenant-specific authorization

Demo: policy creation, deployment, and audit for multi-tenant SaaS.

[Watch the demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpUpQiy9Pjw)

- [Playground for this demo](https://play.cerbos.dev/p/XhkOi82fFKk3YW60e2c806Yvm0trKEje?utm_campaign=hub_update_25&utm_source=playground_multi_tenant&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_term=) — Prototype and play with policies for multi-tenant SaaS in your browser.
- **Webinar on tenant-specific authorization** — On-demand webinar on multi-tenant authorization best practices.
- [Policy Store key concepts and best practices](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos-hub/policy-stores) — Policy store essentials for multi-tenant authorization.

## Centralized permission management for SaaS

- **Enterprise flexibility** — Support tenant roles and dynamic policies at scale.
- **Streamlined policy operations** — Replace custom workflows with automated deployments.
- **Faster engineering delivery** — Programmatic updates, fast testing, and simplified policy management.
- **No infra overhead** — Deliver dynamic tenant policies at scale without building and maintaining complex infrastructure.

## Learn more about tenant authorization

- [A guide to multitenant authorization](https://solutions.cerbos.dev/guide-to-multitenant-authorization) — Ebook
- [How to implement scalable multitenant authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-implement-scalable-multitenant-authorization) — Article
- **Scaling authorization logic in a multitenant application** — Webinar
- [How to implement resource-based authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/how-to-implement-resource-based-authorization) — Article
- [Advanced multi-tenant SaaS authorization](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/multi-tenant-saas-authorization-role-policies-and-scoped-resource-policies) — Guide
- [How to adopt externalized authorization](https://solutions.cerbos.dev/how-to-adopt-externalized-authorization) — Ebook
- [ePDP Rules: Fine-grained control for embedded policy bundles](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/epdp-rules-fine-grained-control-for-embedded-policy-bundles) — Article