Many attempts are made to secure a system from external attacks, but insider attacks are more harmful. Edward Snowden is the best example of that. ‘According to recent Verizon report, insider threat accounts for around 14% of data breaches in 2013’

To avoid this insider attack by rouge employees, CloudFlare has released an open source encryption software with “two-man-rule-style” encryption and decryption method called “Red October”.

As name suggests, it will need authorization from 2 persons simultaneously to get access to sensitive data. The basic idea is explained in this diagram.

To download the project visit: https://github.com/cloudflare/redoctober

To read more visit: http://thehackernews.com/2013/12/red-october-crypto-app-encryption-decryption.html

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