SE Radio 664: Emre Baran and Alex Olivier on Stateless Decoupled Authorization Frameworks

SE Radio 664: Emre Baran and Alex Olivier on Stateless Decoupled Authorization Frameworks

Author: team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) April 16, 2025 Duration: 51:54

Emre Baran, CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, and Alex Olivier, CPO and co-founder, join SE Radio host Priyanka Raghavan to explore "stateless decoupled authorization frameworks. The discussion begins with an introduction to key terms, including authorization, authorization models, and decoupled frameworks.

They dive into the challenges of building decoupled authorization, as well as the benefits of this approach and the operational hurdles. The conversation shifts to Cerbos, an open-source policy-based access control framework, comparing it with OPA (Open Policy Agent). They also delve into Cerbos's technical workings, including specification definitions, GitOps integration, examples of usage, and deployment strategies. The episode concludes with insights into potential trends in the authorization space.

This episode is sponsored by Penn Carey Law school


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