Centralized Authorization: The Next Shared Platform?
2025-03-22
This article explores the benefits and challenges of centralized authorization systems. Traditionally, authorization is decentralized across applications, leading to inefficiencies and management difficulties. A centralized system offers standardization, cost reduction, and improved compliance, but requires addressing expressiveness, performance, isolation, and integration challenges. The article discusses how open-source (Topaz) and commercial (Aserto) platforms overcome these hurdles, enabling efficient, secure, and manageable enterprise-level authorization.
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