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Solving the Enduring Pain of Authorization w/ Aserto’s Co-founder & CEO, Omri Gazitt

# Solving the Enduring Pain of Authorization w/ Aserto’s Co-founder & CEO, Omri Gazitt

By Omri Gazitt

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February 28, 2023

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Whether you're at a startup, enterprise, or something in between, authorization and access control are likely major pain points for your team.

This week on Dev Interrupted we talk to Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of [Aserto](https://www.aserto.com/). Omri joins us to chat about the future of authorization, how to handle access control on your team, and how to avoid the toil and tech debt often associated with access control. 

#### Episode Highlights:

* (2:36) Omri's path to becoming a founder
* (4:58) Advice for first-time engineers-turned-founders
* (8:38) What is authorization?
* (12:06) Aserto's founding
* (15:38) Implementing authorization the right way
* (18:55) Who should own access control for your team?
* (21:00) What is cloud native authorization?
* (24:32) Getting access control in a good place
* (26:26) Open source and authorization
* (32:20) Startup vs enterprise: authorization transformation

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