Styra DAS is an Enterprise OPA Manager that delivers unified policy management across the entire cloud-native stack. Built upon the open-source Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, it enables organizations to implement declarative authorization through comprehensive policy management. This service facilitates least-privilege access across APIs, identities, systems, and services, providing context-rich authorization essential for modern security strategies. Designed for enterprise readiness, Styra DAS allows developers and platform teams to focus on application functionality and security by abstracting the operational complexities of policy deployment. It empowers engineering teams with efficient resource allocation and streamlined authorization deployment. The platform supports managing the full policy lifecycle and governance across diverse teams, ensuring fine-grained access control. It also helps reduce risk by offering pre-built policies mapped to industry standards like PCI, MITRE ATT&CK for cloud, and CIS benchmarks, enabling security, audit, and compliance teams to effectively engage. Styra DAS is the world's only enterprise-grade authorization platform specifically designed for OPA, offering a complete suite of capabilities including authoring, testing, impact analysis, distribution, monitoring for policy, and decision logging. It leverages OPA and Rego, a high-level declarative language, to define policy as code, decoupling policy decisions from enforcement and enabling universal policy management across systems like Kubernetes, microservices, API gateways, public cloud environments, Linux, custom applications, and databases.

Features & Benefits

• Unified Policy Management
  • Provides a central control plane for managing the entire policy lifecycle and governance across teams, clusters, and clouds, from GitOps processes through deployment and real-time monitoring.
• Fine-Grained Access Control
  • Enables context-rich, least-privilege authorization for APIs, identities, systems, and services, moving beyond the limitations of traditional RBAC, ABAC, or home-grown entitlements.
• Low-Code Policy Authoring & Collaboration
  • Offers an AI-powered low-code policy builder and a user-friendly GUI to simplify policy authoring and foster collaboration, ensuring policy integrity and consistency across diverse teams.
• Policy Impact Analysis
  • Facilitates "shift-left" security by providing policy impact analysis within CI/CD pipelines, allowing developer teams to identify and validate against policy violations early in the development cycle.
• Decision Logs & Compliance Monitoring
  • Monitors the health of OPA instances, provides decision logs for security teams to triage old policy decisions, and supports compliance with pre-built policies mapped to standards like PCI, MITRE ATT&CK for cloud, and CIS benchmarks.
• Enterprise-Ready Authorization
  • Designed for production-ready OPA, focusing on the authorization policy itself rather than the operational nuances of deployment, giving developers freedom to build better, more secure applications.
• Broad System Compatibility
  • Utilizes a single policy language (Rego) to manage authorization across a wide spectrum of software systems, including Kubernetes, microservices, API gateways, public cloud, Linux, custom applications, and databases.