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Oso Tackles Unbundling Security Authorization

Just a few years ago, it seemed no one was talking about authorization, but now everybody is, which Graham Neray, co-founder and CEO of Oso, thinks is a healthy thing. And startups including Authzed and Aserto are diving into the authorization space, Authzed having just released an open source version of Google’s Zanzibar called SpiceDB.

Neray considers authorization the next part of the application to be unbundled in the vein of what Stripe did for payment processing and Twilio did for communications.

It provides three things for developers, according to Neray: Its GitHub page asserts that “developers can typically write a working Oso policy in less than five minutes, add Oso to an app in less than 30 minutes, and use Oso to solve real authorization problems within a few hours.”

To that end, it has created the Authorization Academy, a series of technical guides for building application authorization.