Cerbos
End-to-end access control for Zero Trust environments and AI systems.
Cerbos is an enterprise authorization platform that enforces fine-grained, policy-based access control for applications, AI agents, and services. It provides a full policy lifecycle including authoring, testing, versioning, distribution, and audit logging across all identity types. The platform integrates with existing identity providers and infrastructure, offering sub-millisecond decision times via an open-source policy decision point.
Cerbos evaluates authorization requests against YAML-based policies at runtime via a stateless, open-source Policy Decision Point (PDP), enriched by identity and resource data, with decisions logged for full auditability.
Enterprise engineering teams and security leaders building applications, AI systems, or workflows that require fine-grained access control
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Cerbos
- Launched
- 2021
Founders
- Alex Olivier
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