How SaaS Companies are Changing Their Approach to Authorization

SaaS companies are moving away from hardcoded authorization, embracing tools like Oso to manage RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC, and secure LLM chatbots. As data access grows more complex, authorization-as-a-service offers scalable, fine-grained control to prevent leaks and streamline app development.

Authorization is a critical, yet invisible, part of most applications. Authorization defines who has access to which data. Using a physical security analogy, if authentication is about who can enter the front door, authorization is about who has keys to which rooms.

Historically, development teams built authorization logic into their application code. But building and maintaining authorization logic has become mind-numbing work, and over time, no one wants to touch the code in fear of giving the wrong person access to sensitive information. This issue is amplified by the explosion of LLM chatbots, which need to train using a lot of data, not all ...