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SpiderOak launched its core technology platform as an open-source offering on Thursday as it looks to expand the reach of its platform and technology. The company said that its ‘Aranya’ project will offer the same protections as its OrbitSecure platform currently deployed within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Now technology manufacturers will be able to embed and extend these same zero-trust protections natively into their own systems, while offering contributions to advance cyber protections and accelerate secure by design adoption recently advocated by the European Union and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). SpiderOak believes the ‘Aranya’ project represents an inflection point for how cyber protections can be applied against ever increasing and sophisticated AI assisted 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 high assurance message delivery, secure data exchange, and access control between applications, machines, and sensors without requiring additional security tools.

“Cybersecurity is the single greatest challenge for distributed systems with very complex architectures, especially in defense. From communication networks to weapons platforms, our national security depends on systems that can resist sophisticated cyberattacks. By open sourcing the core technology, we’re providing both the defense and commercial industries with a critical tool to cyber harden their most important systems and protect the critical operations these systems support,” Charles Beames, Executive Chairman, SpiderOak, said in a statement.