Alex Olivier
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Co-founder & CPO @cerbosdev solving Access Control headaches and #avgeek
London, England
Joined July 2007
Cerbos @cerbosdev β Secure, policy-based access control for modern applications β Stars: 4,148 π Forks: 168 β© Last commit: Dec 1, 2025 β First commit: Mar 21, 2021 https://t.co/6cn0adyroL
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A scalable authorization layer that provides fine-grained access control through externalized policies, enabling secure and flexible permissions management.
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Spotted and submitted for #VORvednesday by @alexolivier during a US trip recently πΊπΈ Itβs the Nashville VOR (BNA) which is in the north western part of the airport. An impressive amount of support structure! #BNA #Nashville #VOR #UKATC #NAVAIDS #NATS #FAA
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American conferences: 7:30am arrival for 8:00am start. 6 panels in a row. 25 minute lunch European conferences:
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Cerbos' CPO & Co-founder @alexolivier is taking the stage at #CyberArk Workload Identity Day Zero for the π€ "Securing the Future: Workload Identity in the Age of AI Agents" panel, along with many notable speakers Details: https://t.co/uXy4K4Eb3K
#AIAgents
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Our CPO @alexolivier is speaking at #ISC2Congress on Oct 28! Join him + experts from Apple & Google on "Automating IAM for Compliance, Security & Business Agility" π€ 4:40-5:40 PM CT | Details: https://t.co/lKsTsA9aHt
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PRO TIP: REST is overengineering. Just expose one endpoint called /api that accepts SQL queries directly. Based on security concerns, I've added AI validation to the snippet.
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Got called a Boomer at the office for using Cursor Everybody needs to take a deep breath
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MCP servers are becoming the most privileged components in our stacks. Left unsecured, they're a centralized point of failure for data governance. Our new ebook provides the blueprint for securing them with externalized #authorizationπ https://t.co/XYo3IQ4htl
#MCP #AISecurity
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Do not trust Gemini 2.5 Flash Image to wire your outlet. You will die
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Flying over the Appalachian mountains on the way to DC and it struck me how much tectonic plates featured in my education and yet has featured a near-zero amount in my adult life.
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π Cerbos is headed to #IdentityWeekAmerica! Find @emre and @alexolivier at booth 5οΈβ£ 4οΈβ£ 8οΈβ£ to chat about the future of authorization. Participate in the Cerbos x @FusionAuth Lego raffle π Scan your badge at the Cerbos booth (548) and FusionAuth booth (538).
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We just shipped some new features! Both came directly from customer feedback about debugging and monitoring: 1οΈβ£ Understanding why specific authorization decisions were made 2οΈβ£ Getting visibility into usage patterns across multiple teams. https://t.co/sdffNCu3qD
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AI agents are not service accounts with personalities. I know that's how many of us are treating them, but it's fundamentally wrong.
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Thanks for having me - really enjoyed the discussion. What @platformatic has done around session management of MCP is going to be the killer feature for adaption as we start moving MCP use from just code editors to end user apps - particularly on unstable mobile connections.
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"We need to let our customers define their own roles and rules without hardcoding every customization." Sound familiar? Join our spotlight webinar on tenant-specific authorization that scales. Sign up β https://t.co/vrTmTZnPGZ Can't make it live? Register for the recording.
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