Open source, accessible security for developers

At Virtru, we imagine that the power to securely share knowledge is important — and that privateness is a human proper that have to be protected. It’s a mission we’ve caught by since we began in 2011, and sees us supporting over 7,000 organisations worldwide to guard their most respected asset, their knowledge, with Zero-Belief safety and highly effective, granular coverage controls that tie id to knowledge, all over the place it strikes.

Now, Virtru is giving builders a brand new method to construct safety instantly into their very own purposes. Our new open supply challenge, OpenTDF, allows builders to construct Zero Belief knowledge controls instantly into the apps they create. Builders can entry the OpenTDF challenge on GitHub. 

OpenTDF is a flexible safety toolkit that can be utilized to control delicate knowledge because it flows by way of paperwork, IoT sensors, video feeds, and multi-party analytics. Examples of how builders can leverage OpenTDF embrace: 

• Safeguarding protected well being info (PHI): Apps incorporating OpenTDF can equip sufferers to securely share medical information and documentation with healthcare suppliers whereas sustaining management over their very own well being info.
• Redact content material inside a doc: OpenTDF can be utilized to cryptographically implement doc redaction and safe particular parts of textual content primarily based upon the safety rights of the person viewing the doc. 
• Safe knowledge relayed throughout IoT sensors: OpenTDF allows granular entry controls all the way down to the packet degree whereas additionally preserving the integrity of that knowledge, stopping knowledge spoofing. 
• Encrypt real-time chat and video conferencing: Defend message content material with end-to-end encryption to protect privateness and safeguard delicate or proprietary enterprise info. 
• Combine OpenTDF with different platforms: OpenTDF can combine with Apache Kafka to safe knowledge occasion streams from finish to finish, from ingestion to consumption.

OpenTDF relies on the Trusted Information Format (TDF), created by Virtru’s Co-Founder and CTO, Will Ackerly. TDF has lengthy been an open spec for safe knowledge sharing within the intelligence group, and the discharge of OpenTDF makes key capabilities of TDF extra accessible to builders throughout private and non-private sectors, equipping them to construct safety and privateness into their purposes from the bottom up.

“Simply as PDF helped speed up digital doc sharing, TDF is poised to change into the usual methodology for securely sharing delicate knowledge. TDF retains rightful homeowners in sovereign management of knowledge they share no matter file kind, utility of origin, or authentication mechanisms.” Will Ackerly, CTO and Co-Founding father of Virtru.

We stay up for seeing what you create with OpenTDF. You’ll be able to study extra about OpenTDF right here. To start out constructing, entry our GitHub repo right here.

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