Decoupling Authorization: Cerbos with Emre Baran

Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows developers to decouple authorization logic from core code into its own centrally distributed component. Easier said than done, perhaps - but Cerbos is secure, intentionally simple to implement, and developer-focused.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The difference between authentication and authorization

• Why Cerbos is language-agnostic

• Authorization patterns in a single application versus a larger network

• The reason most devs start out trying to do authorization themselves, and sometimes give up

• How the upcoming Cerbos Cloud will empower less technical users to deploy and manage policies and logs

Links:

• Cerbos

• Cerbos Cloud Beta

• Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

People mentioned:

• Charith Ellawala (Github: @charithe)

Other episodes:

• Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall