Tour of Polar - an authorization point-and-click exploration

Discover "A Tour of Polar," Oso’s interactive, point-and-click guide to building authorization policies. Learn RBAC, ReBAC, and ABAC with editable policies and real-time authorization decisions in a fun, hands-on experience.

April 29, 2025 — Rob Spectre
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More Concise Policy Tests with “iff” and wildcards

Learn how to simplify and scale your authorization tests in Oso Cloud using assert variables and the iff operator. Write fewer test cases, validate multiple permissions at once, and ensure your access control policies stay correct as they grow.

April 21, 2025 — Greg Sarjeant
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Oso Sync is now GA!

Oso Sync ensures your authorization data stays consistent between your app and Oso Cloud by detecting and fixing data drift caused by issues like latency or manual changes. It supports PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and CSVs for other databases, offering both reporting and automatic updates.

April 10, 2025 — Mike Cen
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Building an Authorized RAG Chatbot with Oso Cloud

Use Oso Cloud, OpenAI, and Supabase to build a permissions-aware RAG chatbot, so users only see context from documents they have permission to view.

March 14, 2025 — Greg Sarjeant
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The Hidden Complexity of CRM Authorization

Find out the hidden complexities of CRM authorization and learn how to do recursive authorization with Oso

February 3, 2025 — Sean Loiselle
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Use Oso to Help Your Customers Share Anything: Documents, Drawings, Data

Master resource-specific roles with Oso. Learn scalable permissions like Google Docs, GitHub, and Figma using Polar examples for flexible authorization.

January 24, 2025 — Sean Loiselle
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Implementing Fine-Grained Access Control in EMR Systems with Oso

How Oso provides EMR apps with the flexibility they need

January 13, 2025 — Sean Loiselle
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Local Authorization Enhancements: What’s New and Why It Matters

The updates to Oso’s Local Authorization in the V2 SDKs make it easier to build flexible authorization workflows.

November 27, 2024 — Jordan Killpack
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Fallback Is Now GA

Fallback ensures your app remains up and operational, even in the case of an unexpected Oso Cloud outage.

November 19, 2024 — Shaun Verch
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Announcing our new Python Client

Simplified fact management and powerful query builder API's - and much more!

October 21, 2024 — Hazal Mestci
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Announcing our new Go Client

Simplified fact management and powerful query builder API's - and much more!

October 16, 2024 — Hazal Mestci
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Announcing our new Node.js Client

Generate TypeScript types from your Polar policy - and much more!

July 18, 2024 — Vijay Ramamurthy
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Polar LSP: A Little Help with the Rules

Polar now has its own language server implementation, making it easier to write your authentication policies

July 8, 2024 — Jordan Killpack & Sean Loiselle
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View Billing Data in Oso Cloud

View your monthly average user report in the Oso Cloud UI.

June 11, 2024 —
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Negating Facts in your Oso Cloud Policy

Announcing a new feature in authorization policies: a limited form of negation (not syntax).

May 23, 2024 —
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Launching Local Authorization

Using local data to answer authorization questions with Oso Cloud

April 16, 2024 — Greg Sarjeant
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Introducing the Oso Drive Node.js Sample App

A sample app that demonstrates RBAC, ReBAC, and ABAC in Node.js with Oso Cloud

March 29, 2024 — Val Karpov
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How to Build Authorization in Microservices

Find out how to handle authorization in microservices by sharing user role data and using it for permission checks everywhere.

November 1, 2023 — Graham Kaemmer
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Reliability and high availability for authorization systems

We are serious about our responsibility to our customers. We're excited to announce two ways that demonstrate our commitment to that responsibility: SOC 2 Certification and Oso's client-side cache, Fallback.

October 19, 2023 — Greg Sarjeant
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But Why Authorization Models? Announcing the Oso Modeler

Introducing the Oso Modeler, a tool for modeling authorization like RBAC, ABAC and ReBAC and everything in between.

September 19, 2023 —
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Authorization Rules are always harder than you think

Authorization logic (like RBAC, ABAC or REBAC) governs who can do what in an application and is core to building authorization services.

June 29, 2023 — Graham Neray
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Authorization for the Next Billion Developers

Authorization for the next billion developers.

June 20, 2023 — Graham Neray
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Oso Cloud is Generally Available

Today Oso Cloud, our supercharged authorization as a service, is generally available (GA).

October 4, 2022 — Graham Neray
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GraphQL Authorization: Building Authorization in GraphQL

A walkthrough on how to use Oso Cloud to build authorization in a GraphQL API.

October 3, 2022 — Patrick O'Doherty
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Reuse Authorization Logic Using the Query API

Use Oso Cloud’s to query your policy. Our APIs allow you to go beyond questions like: “can this user perform this action on this resource.” With the query API, you can ask any question you want.

September 29, 2022 —
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