INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tozny, a Portland, Oregon startup that wants to help companies more easily incorporate encryption into programs and processes, introduced
Room.The company is introducing an identity and access solution today with the hope of moving beyond its core developer and government
audience to a broader enterprise customer base.Under the hood, TozID uses standards identity constructs like single sign-on, SAML and
This allows a user (or application) to control information with a password while reducing the risk of sharing data because Tozny does not
store passwords or send them over the network.In this tool, the password acts as the encryption key, which enables users or applications to
control access to data in a very granular way, only unlocking information for people or applications they want to be able to access that
information.As Potoczny-Jones pointed out, this can be as simple as one-to-one communication in an encrypted messaging app, but it can be
explained.Regardless of how this is implemented, the user never has to understand encryption or even know that encryption is in play in the
All they need to do is enter a password as they always have, and then Tozny deals with the complex parts under the hood using standard open
source encryption algorithms.The company also has a data privacy tool geared towards developers to build in end-to-end encryption into
Developers can use the Tozny SDK to add encryption to their applications without a lot of encryption knowledge.The company has been around
Instead, it has developed an encryption toolkit for government agencies, including NIST and DARPA, that has acted as a funding
been building for government agencies into the commercial market, so this is really work on our side to try to, you might say, bring it down
