Cerbos is an open-source, self-hosted authorization layer designed to help developers manage and enforce fine-grained access control policies across their applications and services. It provides a centralized system for defining, testing, and enforcing authorization logic, decoupling it from application code to improve security, scalability, and maintainability. Cerbos supports complex authorization rules with a flexible policy language and integrates seamlessly with modern application architectures using APIs and SDKs.
By using Cerbos, organizations can simplify access management by handling roles, permissions, and resource-level access checks in one place, enabling consistent and auditable authorization decisions. Its lightweight, scalable design makes it suitable for cloud-native environments, microservices, and distributed systems, ensuring that authorization is robust, reliable, and easy to evolve alongside your application.