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Guardian is an authorization API for accessing the Triplesec policy store. Applications can use Guardian to manage permissions using an RBAC model. Its API is simple and designed to be as generic as possible for use in any domain. It is ideal for centralized authorization policy management and policy consistency across applications, languages and platforms. Triplesec Guardian meet the needs of several applications by making sure, it, as a centralized resource, is highly available, redundant and load balanced.
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