Cerbos

Cerbos provides an externalized authorization layer designed for enterprise software and AI. It enables organizations to enforce fine-grained, contextual, and continuous authorization across applications, APIs, AI agents, and workloads. The platform helps define, test, and iterate policies, deploy and manage them across various environments, and log and audit every access decision. Cerbos is built for engineers and leadership, offering benefits like faster time to market by instantly deploying new roles and permissions, reducing AI risk by preventing over-permissioning, and significantly cutting costs by eliminating custom authorization infrastructure. It ensures compliance with regulations like GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 through audit-ready logs. The platform supports various authorization models including RBAC, ABAC, and PBAC, and can be deployed in cloud, self-hosted, on-premise, or air-gapped environments. It is particularly valuable for regulated industries like fintech and for securing AI systems.