Enterprise Deployment and Management of Cursor AI

Adopting any new tool across a large engineering organization presents a unique set of challenges. Beyond individual productivity, team leads and administrators must look into considerations around security, compliance, cost management, and standardization. A tool that is powerful for a single developer is only viable at an enterprise level if it can be managed, monitored, and securely integrated into the company’s existing infrastructure.

Cursor provides a suite of enterprise-grade features designed to address these challenges. This lesson moves beyond the individual developer’s workflow and focuses on the perspective of a team lead or administrator responsible for deploying, and managing Cursor at scale. We will explore the key features that make Cursor a secure and manageable tool for professional engineering teams.

Centralized user management with SSO (SAML)

In an enterprise environment, managing user access to dozens of different tools can be a significant security and administrative burden. Cursor addresses this by supporting Single Sign-On (SSO), typically through the SAML protocol.

This allows an organization to integrate Cursor with their central Identity Provider (IdP), such as Okta, ...