Case Study: Salt Security achieves scalable enterprise authorization with Permit.io

Salt Security keeps authorization latency below 20ms with Permit.io

Salt Security, a leading API security company serving Fortune 500 enterprises, faced a challenge scaling their basic role-based access control system to meet the demands of their growing customer base. Enterprise customers required more control, including custom role definitions, seamless identity provider integrations, and granular authorization policies. Salt needed a flexible and scalable authorization solution to avoid the massive engineering investment of building a complex system from scratch.

By implementing fine-grained authorization with Permit.io, Salt Security integrated a system that supported dynamic roles and a hybrid deployment model. This solution allowed their customers to independently define and manage custom roles while ensuring fast, low-latency authorization decisions through a local Policy Decision Point. The results included drastically reduced authorization response times, kept below 20ms even under high load, and the delivery of a scalable, enterprise-grade access control system without slowing their development roadmap.

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