March marks an exciting milestone: Cerbos turned 5! 🎉 Thank you for being part of our journey as we continue building the future of authorization together.

Over the past month, we have been focused on expanding integration capabilities and addressing critical authorization challenges facing financial services and enterprise security leaders.

Join us for our upcoming Zero Trust webinar on March 18: 💻"Your security stack has holes. Do you know where they are?" Learn how to apply aviation's Swiss Cheese Model to stress-test your Zero Trust layers and identify gaps before they become breaches.

We released new integration adapters to help teams implement authorization effectively. These include query plan adapters for LangChain.js and ChromaDB, Drizzle ORM, Elasticsearch Java, and Azure API Management. We also launched our agentic e-commerce use case, demonstrating how to secure AI-driven commerce workflows with fine-grained authorization.

For security and business leaders, we published critical insights on authorization challenges in regulated industries. In the realm of financial services, we explored how AI is turning weak permission management into systemic banking risk, and outlined the four pillars of access control in banking.

Beyond financial services, we examined why breaches are becoming personal for CISOs and the importance of continuous governance, addressed IAM blind spots and fragmentation, analyzed the privilege creep time bomb and why timely access reviews are critical, and shared key takeaways from Gartner IAM Summit London where authorization took center stage. 

Customer spotlight: Flash

Flash, a Brazilian fintech, replaced legacy authorization with Cerbos, doubling corporate card spending while managing 6,000+ policy rules without scaling engineering headcount.

Product Updates

Cerbos Hub

In case you missed it: on-premise Cerbos Hub was released last month. Organizations can now run Cerbos Hub inside their own environment while continuing to manage authorization centrally across apps, services, workloads, and non-human identities. Cerbos Hub now supports all deployment options:

• On-premise data centers
• Private and bring-your-own cloud environments
• Fully air-gapped networks
• Hybrid architectures
• Cloud-hosted

Learn about Cerbos Hub

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Helpful Content

[Webinar] Your security stack has holes. Do you know where they are?

Your Zero Trust architecture probably has a hole in it. That's fine - every layer of defense has holes. The problem is when nobody's checked whether those holes align.

Aviation figured this out decades ago. The Swiss Cheese Model gave them a framework for understanding how layered defenses actually behave under pressure, not just in theory. It's how they built the safest complex system in history. Most security stacks haven't applied the same rigor.

In this free webinar on March 18th, Alex Olivier will map that framework onto the 6 layers of Zero Trust runtime security and give you a practical way to stress-test your own stack (before a breach does it for you).

Can’t join live? No problem - register to get the recording post-webinar.

Upcoming Events

Visit our booth at:

• EIC, Berlin, May 19-23. Stop by the Cerbos candy bar for a chat! Don’t miss the panel “Signals, policies, and identity agency: A smarter identity layer” where Alex Olivier, along with other industry experts, will explore how identity platforms are shifting from static rules to continuous, signal-informed decisioning.

Meet our team members and check out their talks to get valuable insights:

• DevWorld, Amsterdam, May 7-8. Alex Olivier, Cerbos' CPO and Co-Founder, will explore why access control failures increasingly manifest as outages, incidents, and production instability.
• Identiverse, Las Vegas, June 15-18. Alex will join Vatsal Gupta of Apple for the talk "Access reviews are dead. Long live decision governance". Stop by and let us know what you think!