In this episode of Authorization in Software, host Damian Schenkelman talks to Emina Torlak, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS, about the intricacies of software authorization, policies, and the Cedar policy language. Torlak delves into the philosophy behind Cedar, an open-source language for writing and enforcing custom authorization policies. They discuss the need for policy-based access control, how it separates application code from authorization logic, and the importance of user interface in managing authorization.