Cerbos Review: A Developer’s Perspective on Modern Access Control

The management of user access to resources across a variety of services is becoming an increasingly difficult task in today’s cloud-native systems, which are becoming increasingly complex in terms of security. Cerbos is an open-source policy decision point (PDP) that provides a robust and centralized solution for managing access control across all of your applications. Its goal is to simplify and standardize this process. In this study, we will take a comprehensive look at Cerbos from the point of view of a developer. We will discuss its open-source offering (Cerbos PDP) and its enterprise-grade solution (Cerbos Hub), as well as its adaptability in terms of connecting with contemporary ecosystems.

What is Cerbos?

For the purpose of managing access control and authorization, Cerbos is a policy engine that is enterprise-ready, open-source, and configurable. It is an authorization solution which makes fine-grained access controls easy to implement and manage, making authorization more secure and more adaptable to changing requirements, while saving months of developer time. It makes it possible for apps to delegate authorization decisions to a centralized policy engine, which simplifies the management of who is able to do what within an application. The application is designed to be…