Supercharged Authorization with Stytch + Cerbos

Do not waste any time in implementing role and attribute based access control by integrating Cerbos with Stytch.

What is Cerbos?

Cerbos is open source, decoupled access control for your application enabling you to implement fine-grained permissions in minutes.

Agile

Define and evolve complex policies without requiring a release cycle

Compliance

Meet your compliance requirements with a full audit trail of policies, permissions, access to resources

Enterprise

Be enterprise ready and meet your customer's organizational requirements with ease

Proactive

Coming soon: SIEM integrations and anomaly detection and recommendations of policy changes

Extend Stytch Roles

Fine grained access controls extending the roles defined in Stytch

Enrich with Context

Request time attribute based authorization enables more contextual access controls

Avoid Token Bloat

Independent authorization logic avoids bloated tokens and workarounds

Client SDK Example

if cerbos_client.is_allowed("edit", user, resource):
    # access allowed

if user.email.endswith("@mycompany.com") or (
    "managers" in user.groups and user.company.package == "premium"
):
    if user.region == resource.region:
        audit_log.record(Audit.ALLOWED, "edit", user, resource)
        # access allowed
    else:
        audit_log.record(Audit.DENIED, "edit", user, resource)
        # access denied
else:
    audit_log.record(Audit.DENIED, "edit", user, resource)
    # access denied

Before

After

Why Cerbos?

Simple

Define access policies using human-readable YAML. No need to master a new policy language.

Super-charged Roles

Dynamically derive new roles based on contextual information. Don't be limited to what your IdP provides.

Context-aware

Make use of context such as IP address and time of day to make realtime access decisions

Ultrafast API

Access decisions in milliseconds.

GitOps

Develop, test, and deploy policies just as you do with your source code.

Multiple Environments

Built-in policy versioning to support canary deployments and different environments.

Cloud Native

Containerised deployment as a microservice or a sidecar. REST and gRPC interfaces. Top-notch observability.

Audit Logs

Capture every decision and analyze them later.

Community

Leverage our community for examples and help.

Book a free Policy Workshop to discuss your requirements and get your first policy written by the Cerbos team