The authorization company Cerbos has announced the general availability of Cerbos Hub, which is a management system for authoring, testing, and deploying authorization policies using the company’s open-source authorization layer Policy Decision Point (PDP).
With PDP, authorization policies are separated from application code, which allows authorization to scale and change as the application’s needs change over time. Cerbos Hub builds on PDP by providing a central user interface, collaborative policy management, and a testing and deployment pipeline.
Admins can use Cerbos Hub to deploy different authorization policies to development, test, and production environments. Additionally, authorization policies can be synchronized across different apps, APIs, and infrastructure.
Cerbos Hub also features a collaborative policy playground where admins can iterate on policy, get real-time feedback on changes, and evaluate test suites in the browser.
“Authorization is more than just code—it’s a representation of how your business functions. Who can access what, where, when, and how, goes beyond deploying your stack. Cerbos Hub is the best way to get everybody involved; from operations, to HR, to accounts payable (and even your CISO), Hub’s collaborative policy-building tools give everybody the opportunity to speak the same language and concentrate on their requirements and business cases.”
And finally, it includes full auditing capabilities in a central location to enable admins to easily track changes, deployments, and decisions.
According to the company, Cerbos Hub can be useful in a variety of use cases, such as providing fine-grained context aware permissions to applications, providing free trials or feature bundles to customers, managing enterprise requirements, and supporting multi-tenant SaaS.
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