Danny Hillis and the team at Applied Invention created ZPR as a fundamentally new approach to securing networks and data. It is a protocol and specification for embedding identity and policy directly into the network, the way the Internet might have been designed if modern security technologies had existed from the start. Our goal is to leverage this new technology to make the world a safer place.
To encourage broad adoption and interoperability, ZPR is being developed as an open standard with an open-source reference implementation. It is part of an industry-wide initiative with Oracle, major technology providers, cloud partners, and other leading organizations.
Oracle has built the first commercial implementation of elements of the ZPR specification using its ZPR PEL language. Oracle’s Zero-Trust Packet Routing Platform implements this technology to help organizations prevent unauthorized access to their data without adding extra hurdles for legitimate activities.