Cerbos Reviews & Product Details

Cerbos is an open-source access governance solution that helps businesses manage authorization for applications. It is a policy-based runtime authorization system that allows developers to implement and manage fine-grained access control. The platform offers a centralized management system for role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies. This approach enables organizations to define access control rules in a single source and manage them centrally, while the authorization decisions are made locally for low-latency performance. Additionally, Cerbos' open-source nature, combined with its API-based plug-and-play approach, allows it to be a flexible solution capable of adapting to changing business needs and regulatory requirements. Business Benefits of Cerbos Authorization Compliance with Security Standards: Cerbos is an ideal solution for Zero Trust Architecture. By externalizing authorization policy management, organizations can meet least-privilege access standards while keeping policy maintenance simple. The stateless design ensures that no request is inherently trusted, and always evaluated at runtime. Cerbos was also designed with data privacy standards in mind, operating solely within your environment and avoiding external dependencies. Cerbos’ Human-readable policies and audit logs make it easier to demonstrate compliance with security and data protection standards including HIPPA, GDPR, SOC2, PCI DSS, ISO27001, and CCPA. Collaborate Effectively with Diverse Stakeholders: Cerbos Hub allows non-developer stakeholders to interact with authorization policies without touching the application code. Users have found that the YAML format provides a common language that can be shared between technical and non-technical stakeholders, clarifying conversations about how business requirements can be translated into authorization policies in the application. Save Months of Developer Time: By decoupling authorization logic from application code, policy updates that might take weeks or months to completely implement can be deployed in minutes. Reclaiming that time for developers means your team can release features and address customer needs faster. Flexible Deployment Options, Pre-built Integrations and SDKs Cerbos is designed to adapt to your existing architecture. Cerbos supports authorization across environments—on-premise, cloud, Kubernetes, serverless setups. Cerbos Hub users can also deploy embedded PDPs on device, in-browser, and in serverless environments using our WASM bundle. We offer SDKs for almost any language, and pre-built integrations for popular frameworks. Reliable Support: Software architects and developers will find support in our Slack Community from other Cerbos users and our own engineers. Users can also book time with our engineers to talk through their questions over a video call.