Athenz
Open source platform for X.509 certificate-based service authentication and fine-grained access control in dynamic infrastructures.
What is Athenz?
Athenz is an open-source platform for X.509 certificate-based service authentication and fine-grained access control in dynamic cloud infrastructures. It solves the problem of securely managing service identities and enforcing role-based authorization across distributed systems, supporting both centralized provisioning and decentralized runtime authorization use cases.
DevOps engineers, security architects, and platform teams managing microservices or cloud-native applications who need robust service authentication and authorization in dynamic environments like Kubernetes, AWS, or hybrid clouds.
Developers choose Athenz for its industry-standard X.509 certificate approach, support for both centralized and decentralized authorization models, and seamless integration with major cloud providers and orchestration platforms, providing a scalable and secure alternative to custom-built solutions.
Overview
Open source platform for X.509 certificate based service authentication and fine grained access control in dynamic infrastructures. Athenz supports provisioning and configuration (centralized authorization) use cases as well as serving/runtime (decentralized authorization) use cases.
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