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An “easy button” for API Authorization
Scaling a fine-grained authorization model for APIs can be tricky, especially when you have hundreds or thousands of them. Fortunately, Topaz makes it easy!
Jul 8th, 2024
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Implementing Custom Roles in your SaaS Application
Custom roles are tricky to implement. This post offers two approaches for allowing each tenant to add custom roles: one for simple RBAC, and one for fine-grained ReBAC.
Jun 20th, 2024
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Topaz Passes 1000 Stars on GitHub!
For this milestone, we'll describe our top 10 favorite features that we've added over the last year!
Jun 12th, 2024
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OpenID Foundation AuthZEN Working Group Announces Interop Results
Conformance with the AuthZEN request/response protocol marks milestone in simplifying and standardizing authorization approaches.
May 28th, 2024
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Announcing Topaz 0.32!
Topaz 0.32 adds significant CLI improvements, including better configuration management, easy switching between templates, and new directory and authorizer subcommands.
May 16th, 2024
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The authorization 3-body problem
Designing an effective authorization system requires understanding the interactions and tradeoffs between the three main components: the PEP, PDP, and PIP.
May 10th, 2024