SpiderOak reveals details of the open source project

SpiderOak Open-sourced its core technology platform on Thursday to expand the reach of its platform and technology. The company said its “Aranya” project will provide the same protection as its OrbitSecure platform currently deployed in the US Department of Defense (DoD).

Now technology manufacturers can embed and extend the same Zero Trust protections natively into their own systems, while contributing to the advancement of cyber protection and accelerating the adoption of Secure by Design, recently endorsed by the European Union and the EU Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (KAG). SpiderOak believes the “Aranya” project represents a game-changer in how cyber defenses can be deployed against increasingly common and sophisticated AI-powered attacks using malware, ransomware, command injection and spoofing techniques.

By leveraging the Aranya toolkit, developers can embed secure-by-design concepts into their products, enabling highly secure messaging, secure data exchange and access control between applications, machines and sensors without the need for additional security tools.

“Cybersecurity is the biggest challenge for distributed systems with very complex architectures, especially in the defense sector. From communications networks to weapons platforms, our national security depends on systems that can withstand sophisticated cyberattacks. By openly deploying the core technology, we are providing both defense and commercial industries with a critical tool to cyber-harden their most critical systems and protect the critical operations that support those systems,” said Charles Beames, Executive Chairman of SpiderOak , in a statement.