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Data filtering based on roles or permissions is an important use-case for application developers. Find out how your authorization system can help!

Umbrella Associates co-founder Sebastian Rohr and Aserto CEO Omri Gazitt discuss the challenges of building a fine-grained, policy-based authorization system at Siemens using a few different OSS projects, and how Topaz provides a unified open source solution that addresses all these challenges.

The Aserto team has been hard at work improving Topaz and the Aserto SaaS platform. We’re excited to share a few of the new product features, including authorization templates and assertions. Let us know what you think!

GitHub is a familiar example of a sophisticated, fine-grained authorization model. GitHub's model includes roles, organization-wide permissions, and nested teams. Read on to learn how to model GitHub's permission system with Topaz.

Authorization presents significant challenges, but with collaboration and innovation, we can overcome them. Find out where you can engage with the authorization community and meet the Aserto team this year.

Slack's authorization model combines coarse-grained roles with fine-grained controls. This is a popular combination among SaaS applications. In this post, we use Topaz's Slack template to model Slack's permissions using relationships. ReBAC provides a more elegant solution and also paves the way for a seamless transition to fine-grained access controls.