Fine grained authorization for fintech

Centralized authorization that keeps you secure, audit-ready, and safe as AI enters production.

Reduce hidden access risk

Remove fragmented, in-code authorization that creates blind spots and over-privileged access.

Control authorization logic

Define, approve, and update authorization policies in one place for users, services, and AI agents.

Know your AI blast radius

What can this AI agent access right now? Get a clear answer in seconds during incidents or regulatory deadlines.

“In fintech, you’ve got to track and enforce who can access data and when. If you don’t do this correctly, you potentially open up unauthorized access.”

Control access for every identity, at any scale

Consistent access control everywhere

Enforce the same authorization logic consistently across apps, APIs, services, non human identities, and AI workflows.

Zero Trust security at runtime

Compliance ready visibility

Complete authorization stack from day one

Authorization that adapts in minutes. See how 4G Capital does it with Cerbos

Few days to production

Policy updates in minutes

“It was very important to have full governance around access control. If you want to scale, if you want to go to other countries, Cerbos let’s you nail these things very fast.”

Authorization software that scales with your fintech product

ABAC
RBAC
ReBAC
PBAC
Runtime
Event-time
Admin-time
Audit-time
Legacy systems
Cloud
Self-hosted
On-premise
Air-gapped

When authorization breaks in financial systems

$4.88M
Average data breach cost. — IBM 2024 report.

258 days
Average time to identify and contain a breach. — IBM 2024 report.

24%
Stolen credentials are the top initial breach access method. — Verizon DBIR 2024.

Klarna had 90K accounts exposed — 2025, Business Insider

Robinhood had 7M records leaked — 2021, TechCrunch

400GB of data stolen from Finastra — 2024, KrebsOnSecurity

No one is protected

Retail banks

Neobanks

B2B fintech platforms

Lending, credit, and financing platforms

Embedded finance and BaaS providers

Authorization can’t be an afterthought

Close security blind spots

Every transfer, approval, and data request depends on authorization logic. With Cerbos, authorization is policy-driven and auditable.

Stop uncontrolled money movement

Over-permissive roles or missing real-time checks allow unauthorized transfers. With Cerbos, every payment and approval is evaluated against policy at runtime.

Limit data access

AI agents, APIs, and backend services inherit broader access than required. PBAC enforces least privilege for customer and transaction data.

Accelerate compliance response

Cerbos enforces AML and KYC requirements through versioned access policies, enabling faster updates and clearer audit trails.

4,500 services

Millions of decisions

Months of dev time saved

“It's weird to say an outside company has our back, but Cerbos does. It's the people. It's their open-source code: it's high quality, you can read it, it does what it says on the tin.”

Authorization that fits your stack

Learn how to design authorization for fintech

10 fintech security tools to build a compliant and resilient security stack

Dimmer switch: AI agent governance

A CISO’s benchmark for authorization maturity

Fintech security architectures: where they break and why

AI is turning weak permission management into systemic banking risk

Mapping business requirements to authorization policy for fintech

Mastering authorization in Fintech

Designing an authorization model for an enterprise

How Cerbos helped Nook build secure and extensible roles and permissions

Building a scalable authorization system: a step-by-step blueprint

How to adopt externalized authorization

Cerbos brings consistent authorization to your financial stack

Ensure every payment, account action, and AI-initiated operation is governed by fine grained, contextual authorization.