Secure access for microservices and APIs

Over the past decade, it has become best practice to break down monoliths into smaller microservices, in order to increase agility, reduce surface area in each component, improve scalability, and enhance reuse. Each microservice typically runs in its own container or pod, coupled to its own data model, and largely operates independently of the other microservices in the application.

However, when each microservice is responsible for its own authorization, it becomes difficult to add or change permissions since every service has to adapt to the change. This reduces the agility benefits that the microservices architecture provides in the first place. Aserto enables developers to lift access control logic out of each microservice and manage it centrally, providing a consistent authorization layer across all your microservices.