BSidesSF 2026 - A blueprint for building a generic... (Ashwin Sidhalinganahalli, Fletcher Ramee)

This talk presents a blueprint for building a generic authorization service tailored for organizations. Speakers Ashwin Sidhalinganahalli and Fletcher Ramee discuss their development of Guard, a solution based on the open-source framework Topaz, which secures internal platforms. The session offers insights into designing a scalable hub-and-spoke architecture and shares practical lessons learned from handling over 1 million authorization decisions per second.