AuthZed

Who is going to EIC (Enterprise Identity and Cloud Conference) 2026 put on by KuppingerCole Analysts next week in Berlin? This is our first year attending and we can't wait to meet you there. As enterprises move AI agents from prototype to production, authorization is quickly becoming critical infrastructure. We’re looking forward to conversations at EIC around: • Authorization infrastructure for AI systems and Applications • Managing permissions for agents acting on behalf of users • Fine-grained authorization at enterprise scale • Building secure AI applications without slowing developers down • Why legacy IAM approaches struggle with agentic workloads or scalable applications If you’ll be at EIC, we’d love to connect. Check out the blog post in the comments on where to find us at EIC or swing by our booth (booth #53) during the event.

The SpiceDB Playground just got an update. You can try SpiceDB directly in your browser (no install required) making it easy to explore fine-grained authorization and permissions modeling with real examples. With the Playground you can: • Explore example schemas • Write and test your own schema • Run real permission checks • Experiment with relationships and access patterns in real time It’s one of the fastest ways to get hands-on with SpiceDB. We’ll drop the Playground link in the comments. Happy SpiceDB playing. 🚀

Want to build authorization for your AI Agents, RAG, LLMs and other AI apps? Join us in one week on May 20th @ 12PM ET for a live Office Hours session to learn how—with the official LangChain integration for SpiceDB (and don't forget to bring your questions!) Register here:

Redpanda Data needed authorization that worked the same way for a human engineer and a service account. No special cases, no separate systems. They built it with AuthZed—a single identity-agnostic authorization layer that now covers 100% of their cloud customers, with fine-grained control over every resource lifecycle action. "There wasn't much debate on whether or not to use AuthZed, to be honest." -Mateo Carvajal, Senior Software Engineer, Redpanda Read the full case study (link in comments) 👇️

The SpiceDB Query Planner is a new experimental feature to improving the performance of every permission check. Join office hours with Barak Michener and Tanner Stirrat and see for yourself. SpiceDB is Open Source: https://lnkd.in/ez7wBHSc

Office Hours is today at 12 PM ET! we're walking through the SpiceDB Query Planner and how it speeds up permission checks across complex authorization schemas. RSVP here:

Tomorrow at 12 PM ET during Office Hours, we're walking through the SpiceDB Query Planner: a new feature that speeds up permission checks across complex authorization schemas. We'll cover how it works under the hood, what it means for your deployments, and how to take advantage of faster permission evaluations. And don't forget to bring your questions! RSVP below - Can't make it live? Register anyway for the recording:

We updated our Timeline of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security Breaches post to include the latest security breaches. This post traces the major MCP-related breaches and security failures - what happened, what data was exposed, why it happened, and what they reveal about the new threat surface LLMs bring into organizations. See comments for the link.