Aranya: Open source toolkit to accelerate secure-by-design concepts

SpiderOak launched its core technology platform as an open source project called Aranya. This release provides the same level of security as the company’s platform already used by the Department of Defense.

The Aranya Project marks a turning point in defending against AI-driven attacks such as malware, ransomware, command injection and spoofing. By shifting security efforts from traditional centralized solutions and network controls to direct integration into technology manufacturers’ applications and devices, it helps end-user organizations reduce costs, simplify security management and minimize their exposure to threats.

With this secure-by-design approach, technology manufacturers across industries can use Aranya to embed protections to ensure every message is authentic, authorized and protected between applications, machines and devices.

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. Aranya’s small size makes it ideal for supporting any deployment model, including small-size, low-weight, low-power (SWaP) devices operating in decentralized, serverless architectures, ideal for the most demanding and constrained environments.

“SpiderOak’s vision for the Aranya open source project is to provide a vast developer community with a toolkit to accelerate secure-by-design concepts that enable highly secure messaging, identity management and access control between applications, machines and Embedding sensors while reducing attacks surfaces,” Caitlin Marsh, SpiderOak VP of Product, told Help Net Security. “We believe it is critical to provide both the defense and commercial industries with critical tools to cyber harden their most critical systems while creating a user feedback loop to continually improve our platform and to better protect national security and trade.”

The Aranya project is now available on GitHub, complete with the resources you need to get started.

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