Navigating user permissions with Cerbos.

User permissions (authorizations and authentication) are an indisputable aspect of most systems’ essential operation, and they demand careful consideration in terms of design, structure, and construction.

As software engineers, products like Okta and Auth0 come to mind as tools for navigating user authentications, and then you investigate different authorization policies and models depending on the Infrastructure you want to use, of which ABAC, RABC, LDAP, or SAML (single sign-on authentication) are just a few examples.

Authorization rules are part of the Identity and Access Management group in computing, and we can simply define it as the identification of system managers to control and validate users who have access to system resources and set client privileges.

While User authentication is a security process that prevents unauthorized users from accessing your device or network, It’s a login procedure where an application requests personalized passwords to give you authorized access to it. If a user lacks the proper login rights to the network, their authentication fails.

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