Cloud-native authorization startup Styra Inc., the founder of Open Policy Agent, today announced new capabilities for its enterprise-grade decision engine Enterprise OPA.

Previously known as Styra Load, Enterprise OPA is designed to give organizations a drop-in replacement for Open Policy Agent with improved performance, native integrations for a suite of data sources and additional features such as policy decision analysis.

The big change is the shift to making Enterprise OPA source available with a commercial license. Previously, the service was available in only two formats: binary or container. Although the formats supported the majority of use cases, they limited Enterprise OPA from being built directly into applications for performance optimization, which requires access to the source code.

In offering access to the source code, Enterprise OPA now supports all usage patterns with the flexibility to modify or change the code to fit organizational needs. Opening up the source code also allows the Enterprise OPA community to contribute code upstream and use features developed by others.

“At its core, Styra is an open-source company,” said Chief Technology Officer Tim Hinrichs “As the creators and maintainers of OPA, our foundation is rooted in creating communities for developers to come together and collaborate. Enterprise OPA is the next iteration of that mission. Now, our customers can reap the same benefits of OPA’s open source community, contributing their updates and features, but with enterprise-grade authorization.”

Along with opening up the source code, Enterprise OPA has also received other enhancements, including expanded decision log export capabilities to support security breach analysis and a gRPC application programming interface with optimized performance to support high-throughput environments.

Enterprise OPA is available today via three delivery formats: binary, container and source code.

Styra was last in the news in January when it announced Repo Scan, a service that provides near-instant scanning of configuration files in GitHub. Offered as part of the Styra Declarative Authorization Service, Repo Scan allows customers to promptly find errors within seconds and prove those errors have been fixed with dynamic compliance reporting.

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