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Cerbos PDP

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Cerbos Authorization Management Platform

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Platform

Architecture Cerbos PDP Cerbos Hub Cerbos Synapse

Getting started

Documentation Quickstart Playground Integrations

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Success stories Blog Webinars, eBooks, checklists Features, benefits and use cases OpenID Authzen standards

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Useful links

Service to service authorization Best open source auth tools Framework for evaluating authorization providers and solutions 3 most common authorization designs for SaaS products Translating business requirements to authorization policy RBAC ABAC PBAC

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What is Cerbos? Cerbos is an end-to-end enterprise authorization management platform for Zero Trust environments and AI-powered systems. It enforces fine-grained, contextual, and continuous authorization across apps, APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, services, and workloads.

Cerbos consists of: an open-source Policy Decision Point; Enforcement Point integrations; a centrally managed Policy Administration Point (Cerbos Hub) that coordinates unified policy-based authorization across your architecture; and an enrichment and orchestration point (Cerbos Synapse) which gathers identity, resource, and relationship data from your existing systems and delivers complete context to the policy engine before every authorization decision. Enforce least privilege & maintain full visibility into access decisions with Cerbos authorization.

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