Cerbos

Cerbos is an authorization service that simplifies managing access policies, roles, and permissions in applications. Cerbos is stateless and specifically designed to reduce the development time associated with setting up authorization infrastructure. With Cerbos, developers can easily create human-readable authentication policies that are both secure and visible.

The system supports Role-based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC).

It also allows context-aware role definitions and fine-grained access control that exceeds standard RBAC. Further, it provides data filtering capabilities based on existing permissions information. This ensures that only authorized users can view or access sensitive data.

Cerbos helps developers save time while ensuring security at every step of their application’s journey. By providing a comprehensive solution where authorization is managed separately from the core code, developers have more time to focus on delivering exceptional products instead of worrying about managing authorization infrastructure.

The tool is extensible and scalable with features such as dynamic conditions for user permission checks, single sign-on via JWT tokens, out-of-the-box API integrations with popular identity providers like Google or Auth0, custom roles for different teams within an organization, and much more.