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Deepak Gupta markAgent Security Map

Agent authorization and fine-grained policy · #2 by signal score

Cerbos

Open-source policy decision point and managed hub for fine-grained authorization, positioned for applications, APIs, services, MCP servers, and AI agents.

29Signal score / 100
Capital
1.5/35
Product
17/25
Standards
0/20(not yet assessed)
Momentum
10/20

Identity primitives

Agent as a first-class identityNot checked
On-behalf-of token exchangeNot checked
Cross App Access (ID-JAG)Not checked
Asynchronous human approval (CIBA)Not checked
MCP authorization conformanceNot checked
Fine-grained authorizationClaimed
Short-lived, secretless credentialsNot checked
Token vaultNot checked
Kill switchNot checked
Per-action audit chainNot checked

Company

HQ: GB
Funding: $11M disclosed, latest Extended seed
Product: Cerbos

Open source

4,623 stars · 35 contributors
Last push 2026-10-14

Sources

  1. Cerbos home page (vendor, accessed 2026-10-14)
  2. Cerbos documentation (vendor, accessed 2026-10-14)
  3. Cerbos docs: RAG authorization (vendor, accessed 2026-10-14)
  4. Cerbos raises $7.5 million for authorization platform (trade-press, accessed 2026-10-14)

Last verified 2026-10-14.