In this episode of The Business of Open Source podcast, join Emre Baran, the co-founder and CEO of Cerbos, as he shares his insights and experiences with Emily Omier. Emre discusses the history of Cerbos, overcoming telemetry challenges, examines monetization strategies, and shares some valuable lessons he has learned throughout his journey.
Emre also explains how Cerbos simplifies the authorization process for software developers, allowing them to focus on their core product while Cerbos handles the complexities of authorization management.
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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.