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Reliable, transparent, and secure

Ensure consistent access control across your architecture. Track and audit requests and decisions without developer support.

Reliable, transparent, and secure

Join hundreds of leading companies using Cerbos

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.
Creating a world where workplaces work better.
4G Capital saves a quarter-million dollars per year with Cerbos.
An employee experience that people love.
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.
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.
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.
Creating a world where workplaces work better.
4G Capital saves a quarter-million dollars per year with Cerbos.
An employee experience that people love.
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.
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.
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.

Cerbos overview

Learn how Cerbos adds declarative access control to your application in minutes.

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Why Cerbos?

Cerbos helps improve security by synchronizing access controls across all apps and services in your architecture, scaling to billions of requests.

Quickly, easily and securely set up and change roles and permissions of any complexity, allowing even non-technical stakeholders to make changes, while reducing version control and logic errors.

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Centralized management

Maintain consistent access control across your apps and services with Cerbos Hub, a home base for policy authoring, iteration and management.

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Auditing & reporting

Use comprehensive audit trails to track user activities, investigate potential breaches, and meet compliance requirements.

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Advanced observability

Gain unparalleled insights into your authorization processes with Cerbos, ensuring transparency, efficiency, and security at every step.

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Boundless scalability

Cerbos is designed to grow with your organization, no matter how your application evolves.

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How Cerbos supports high-security requirements

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Compliance assurance

Cerbos is ideal for environments with strict compliance requirements such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.

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Private by design

Cerbos supports high security use cases including air-gapped deployments and Zero Trust architectures.

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No lock-in

Maintain full control over where policies are stored and deployed, ensuring independence and portability.

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Fine-grained access control

Define RBAC, ABAC and fine-grained access control policies that meet your specific requirements.

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Steps to ironclad, compliant access management

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Capture business requirements

Gather requirements from across your business for what the premissioning logic should be in the application.

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Define policies

Based upon your business logic, define policies which implement the rules, checking roles and conditions for each resource kind in the application.

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Implement checks

Work with your development team to add in the permission checks - this only has to be done once!

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Iterate

As requirements evolve, introduce new policies and conditions in Cerbos without changing application code.

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What our users say about Cerbos

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Rob, Principal Engineer
@ Utility Warehouse

"It's weird to say an outside company has our back, but Cerbos does. It's the people. It's their open-source code: it's high quality, you can read it, it does what it says on the tin"

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Joe, Software Engineer
@ 9fin

"It's a good feeling being able to say yes to almost any permissioning requirement."

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David, Senior Software Engineer
@ Salesroom

"It's easy for us to change how we're distributing policies as we reach different points of scale."

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Joe, CEO & Co-Founder
@ Nook

"We went from one user - every role, to a world where there are many users - many roles."

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Chuck, Head of Engineering
@ Salesroom

"Instead of thinking of how much time Cerbos has saved us, I think about how much time it didn't cost us. It didn't cost us any time. Cerbos just works. I don't have to think about it. It's as simple as that."

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Steve, Staff Engineer
@ NTWRK

"One of our big considerations was speed. We have strict latency tolerances. When it comes to Cerbos - you can call it a hundred times during a request and it doesn't matter. It's incredibly fast."

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Engin, Head of Product and Growth & Co-Founder
@ Debite

"If it wasn't for Cerbos, one thing is for sure - we would've launched later than we did. As a result, we would have less customers."

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Rounak, Founding Engineer
@ CommandK

"Cerbos policy writing is quite flexible, and deploying as a unit microservice as well. Cerbos "doesn't get in the way" once integrated, that's the best part."

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Romina, Tech Lead
@ Wizeline

"It is easy to implement and provides a solution for a problem that is often not properly addressed."

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Henry, CTO & Co-Founder
@ Nook

"Having the separation of the permissions from the code base just makes the code base more elegant. It makes the permissioning more elegant. "

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Rasmus, CTO
@ Firtal

"Just discovered your embedded testing framework. This is probably the best balance between hyperfocused functionality and embedded tooling I've ever seen in an open source project. Damn, good work!"

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Playground

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Docs

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Success stories

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