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Testable authorization with Cerbos

Ensure the accuracy and reliability of your authorization policies. With Cerbos, get real-time feedback, continuous testing, and a collaborative IDE for a seamless and confident policy development experience.

The importance of testable authorization

Authorization policies are critical to the security and functionality of applications. Errors can lead to unauthorized access or hinder legitimate users. Testable authorization ensures that policies work as intended, providing a safety net against potential oversights and vulnerabilities.

Real-time feedback, continuous testing, and collaborative development

  • Instant feedback loop: As you draft or modify policies, get immediate feedback, ensuring that errors are caught and rectified on the spot.
  • Continuous testing with Cerbos Hub: Benefit from Cerbos Hub's automated testing capabilities, ensuring that your policies are always in their best shape.
  • Collaborative IDE: Cerbos Hub's collaborative online IDE allows teams to develop, iterate, and test policies together, fostering a unified approach to authorization.
  • GitOps workflow integration: Seamlessly integrate your authorization policy development with your git-based workflow, ensuring consistency and reliability.
  • Troubleshooting made easy: With real-time feedback and testing, troubleshooting becomes a breeze, even during the development phase.
  • Policy Playground: A dedicated environment to experiment, test, and understand the impact of policy changes, ensuring that you're always confident in your deployments.

Sample test suite for a Cerbos policy


        

      

      
expected:
  - resource: document#1
    principal: user#1
    actions:
      create: EFFECT_ALLOW
      read: EFFECT_ALLOW
      update: EFFECT_ALLOW
      delete: EFFECT_DENY
  - resource: document#1
    principal: admin#2
    actions:
      create: EFFECT_ALLOW
      read: EFFECT_ALLOW
      update: EFFECT_ALLOW
      delete: EFFECT_ALLOW

Create detailed test suites for each of your types of users and resources and define the expected decision for each action. These tests can run on every change to policy to ensure expected results.

Join hundreds of leading companies using Cerbos

The world's leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.
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One of the world's leading automobile manufacturers.
Flash eliminates authorization technical debt and doubles corporate card spending with Cerbos.
4G Capital saves a quarter-million dollars per year with Cerbos.
An employee experience that people love.
Creating a world where workplaces work better.
BarrierSystems integrates Cerbos into smart vehicle access gates, cutting internal costs by 15%.
Enabling all healthcare stakeholders to easily share information and work together.
Most secured and interactive NG911 cloud native communications platform for mission-critical contact centers.
The number 1 company in Italy to buy and sell.
Enhancing and accelerating the software development lifecycle.
Protecting user data with true end-to-end encryption.
The leading European analyst firm in identity and access management.
Modern and digital survey solutions for companies.
Complex (NTWRK) makes a complex access control system easy to manage with Cerbos.
The experts in medical imaging technology.
Making the world a better place to work together.
An early stage tech venture investor.
The collaborative platform to build conversational AI.
Human Managed creates a future-proof ABAC engine with Cerbos.
The fastest development platform.
Delivering innovative solutions to track and certify data and operations.
The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.
One of the world's fastest-growing global technology services provider.
9fin modifies product packaging in 10 minutes.
Cerbos helps Salesroom save over $1MM worth of developer time.
People analytics platform: Fast track to the insights behind your people data.
Advanced malware and phishing analysis.
Leading search intelligence platform for the open web.
Logistics payments without the logistics.
Nook onboards 3x more users by implementing granular roles and permissions.
A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Debite accelerates compliance certification and ships products faster.
Supy offers dynamic role management to their clients with Cerbos.
Loop secures air-gapped cash deposit machines with Cerbos.
Making the world a better place to work together.
Build and manage residential investment portfolios.
Securely manage application secrets and configurations.
A discussion-first platform without language issues.
Collaborative team design canvas that equips tech leaders to make smarter org design decisions.
The world's leading crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.
Utility Warehouse synchronizes authorization across 4,500 services and secures millions of NHIs.
One of the world's leading automobile manufacturers.
Flash eliminates authorization technical debt and doubles corporate card spending with Cerbos.
4G Capital saves a quarter-million dollars per year with Cerbos.
An employee experience that people love.
Creating a world where workplaces work better.
BarrierSystems integrates Cerbos into smart vehicle access gates, cutting internal costs by 15%.
Enabling all healthcare stakeholders to easily share information and work together.
Most secured and interactive NG911 cloud native communications platform for mission-critical contact centers.
The number 1 company in Italy to buy and sell.
Enhancing and accelerating the software development lifecycle.
Protecting user data with true end-to-end encryption.
The leading European analyst firm in identity and access management.
Modern and digital survey solutions for companies.
Complex (NTWRK) makes a complex access control system easy to manage with Cerbos.
The experts in medical imaging technology.
Making the world a better place to work together.
An early stage tech venture investor.
The collaborative platform to build conversational AI.
Human Managed creates a future-proof ABAC engine with Cerbos.
The fastest development platform.
Delivering innovative solutions to track and certify data and operations.
The leading contract creation and collaboration platform.
One of the world's fastest-growing global technology services provider.
9fin modifies product packaging in 10 minutes.
Cerbos helps Salesroom save over $1MM worth of developer time.
People analytics platform: Fast track to the insights behind your people data.
Advanced malware and phishing analysis.
Leading search intelligence platform for the open web.
Logistics payments without the logistics.
Nook onboards 3x more users by implementing granular roles and permissions.
A react-based framework for building internal tools, rapidly.
Debite accelerates compliance certification and ships products faster.
Supy offers dynamic role management to their clients with Cerbos.
Loop secures air-gapped cash deposit machines with Cerbos.
Making the world a better place to work together.
Build and manage residential investment portfolios.
Securely manage application secrets and configurations.
A discussion-first platform without language issues.
Collaborative team design canvas that equips tech leaders to make smarter org design decisions.

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