ReBAC: Keep the Right People On the Job While You’re OOO

It’s summer. You should be thinking about sunscreen and spritzers, not who accidentally got admin rights to your entire network. That’s where ZeroTier’s new support for ReBAC (Relationship-Based Access Control) comes in, making things a whole lot smoother for your systems and your sanity while on PTO.

Originally announced during our spring platform updates webinar, ReBAC controls let you hand out permissions based on real-world relationships, like “this person manages that team” “or “this is the manager for a specific geographic region” or (maybe most importantly) “only folks in IT are allowed to touch this.”

If you’re used to RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), you know the drill: you assign roles like “admin” or “user” that have a static set of permissions and hope they still make sense three months from now. RBAC is straightforward, but it’s also rigid. It doesn’t consider relationships between people, teams, or devices. So, when your company grows or your projects shift, access control becomes a game of catch-up. And that’s the last thing you want to deal with while you’re poolside.

With ZeroTier’s new ReBAC features, you have a more flexible, contextual way of managing access. Instead of just saying who someone is, ReBAC lets you define how they relate to others or to a resource. For example, you can say, “Only team leads can approve new device joins,” or “Only people on the West Coast engineering team can access this network.” It’s smarter, cleaner, and doesn’t require you to rewrite your whole access policy every time something changes.

Now that ZeroTier supports ReBAC, you can tighten up your network access controls before heading out for that long weekend or that two-week beach break. Assign the right level of control to the right people, set up precise permissions based on real-world relationships, and walk away knowing everything’s under control. Fewer surprises. Fewer Slack pings. More hammock time. This summer, let ReBAC do the heavy lifting while you unplug and unwind.

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