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Authorization management solution for authoring, testing, and deploying access control policies. Implement scalable and secure fine-grained authorization.
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Overview
Cerbos goes beyond traditional access control systems by offering enhanced features like context-aware role definitions and attribute-based access control (ABAC) via decoupling the logic from your application code and into an externalized authorization policy decision point. Which allows it to seamlessly scale from prototype to global deployment while saving months of developer time. Its low-code, human-readable configuration enables users to easily implement and update complex authorization policies without altering the core application code. This not only improves visibility but also fosters collaboration and enhances overall security. Cerbos is also stateless, which allows for reliable, up-to-date decision-making without the need for application state synchronization. Additionally, Cerbos PDPs offer low-latency authorization checks by running directly in your environment. Cerbos further distinguishes itself with its focus on compliance and accountability. It supports real-time access control logs to help you achieve compliance with standards like ISO27001 and SOC2. Cerbos audit logs likewise ensure robust threat protection and comprehensive accountability. The solution also offers testable authorization with a GitOps approach, allowing you to implement a reliable CI/CD workflow, and streamlines policy updates with centralized management, pushing real-time policy changes proactively to all Policy Decision Points for seamless rollouts. Cerbos offers pre-built SDKs and starter projects for quick implementation for the most common languages and frameworks, along with template policies that can be customized to fit your specific business needs. Gain insights into deployed PDP instances, tracking active policies, their versions, and more, ensuring all PDPs are synchronized and up-to-date. As well as a Playground, which serves as a fully-featured collaborative IDE for developing, iterating, and testing policies, providing instant feedback on changes and integrating into your Git-based workflow for easy evolution of authorization policies.
Highlights
- Quickly adapt to ever-evolving security requirements with flexible tooling that seamlessly integrates with your workflow to iterate on authorization policies in real-time.
- Save months on development with a plug and play API-enabled toolkit that decouples authorization for any app.
- Increase security by synchronizing access controls across all apps and services in your architecture, scaling to billions of requests.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/unit/hour |
|---|---|---|
Hours | Container Hours | $1.00 |
Dimensions summary
You are billed by the hour based on the container running the policy decision point. This is usage-based pricing with one dimension: Container Hours. Your cost scales with how long the container runs, not with the number of users or authorization requests. You pay only for the hours the container is active, and charges accrue continuously while it runs. There are no upfront commitments or fixed quantities with this single metering dimension.
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You are billed for each hour a container running the policy decision point is active in your environment. The decision point evaluates authorization requests against your policies and runs where you deploy it, including container orchestrators, serverless runtimes, and edge environments. The count reflects container running time, not the number of requests or users.
Charges accrue by container running time. When the container is not active, no software hours are metered. A stopped or paused container stops adding software charges, though underlying AWS resources it depends on may still bill separately. Cost tracks how long the container runs, not authorization request volume.
Your bill scales with total container running hours. Running more containers, or running them longer, adds more billed hours. The number of authorization requests each container handles does not change the hourly charge. The decision point is stateless and designed to handle high request rates within a running container.
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Cerbos Policy Decision Point Container
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Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
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Find the full change log at https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/releases/v0.39.0.html
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Cerbos offers multiple levels of support. Our community support is available through the Cerbos Slack. For enterprise customers, we offer premium support with SLAs, including 24/7 emergency response.
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Customer reviews
Ahmed S.
Developer-friendly authorization tool
Reviewed on Dec 16, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It's very user-friendly, backed by a friendly support team, and a robust playground for testing permission policies. Best of all, Cerbos offers a powerful open-source authorization solution that's completely free, making it easy to get started.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, Cerbos has been perfect for the authorization job—nothing needs to be improved for my use case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cerbos is helping me implement RBAC for my enterprise-focused product (mentions social monitoring system). This product needs a secure permission system, and Cerbos is great OS authorization solution for this.
Jonas G.
Made authorization simple
Reviewed on Dec 03, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I’m a copywriter, not a developer, so when I wanted to build an AI assistant to optimize my workflow and help others do the same, I brought on a freelance developer to help me out.
After we got my AI assistant architecture & features lined up, I wanted to have a proper security setup with roles and permissions. My freelance suggested Cerbos’ open-source product, and I’m so glad I listened to him. It integrated with the open-source authentication solution I chose and I was able to write permissions in plain English and my developer implemented them as soon as I gave him the rules.
The whole thing was much easier and faster than I expected, which was great.
After we got my AI assistant architecture & features lined up, I wanted to have a proper security setup with roles and permissions. My freelance suggested Cerbos’ open-source product, and I’m so glad I listened to him. It integrated with the open-source authentication solution I chose and I was able to write permissions in plain English and my developer implemented them as soon as I gave him the rules.
The whole thing was much easier and faster than I expected, which was great.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience was really smooth, and I can't think of anything that caused me problems. It just worked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building an authorization layer for an app.
Computer Software
Excellent product for adding authorization to your AI applications
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I have used Cerbos to add authorization to AI applications. I found it straightforward yet very powerful, particularly for AI applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
It could be nice to have the ReBAC authorization layer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cerbos provides authorization layer for software applications eliminating the need for custom authorization strategies. It is very robust and easy to use.
Pratham S.
Access control simplified, and decoupled from your codebase
Reviewed on Nov 22, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Cerbos is how easily I can tweak access control logic without having to even touch the codebase. It runs decoupled from the codebase, and with the Playground that they offer, I can see in real-time, what are the implications of my changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The RBAC Policy Generator can have a little more functionality. Currently I am able to write basic RBAC policies, but as we need to write more complex policies, adding some AI support which can draft policies can help a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cerbos is simplifying access control for developers, and it completely changes the way I used to write authorization logic.