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

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