Paragon Initiative Enterprises

Software consulting and web development for businesses with attention to security above and beyond compliance.

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Technology should support your ambitions, not hinder them!

Secure software development philosophy:

Software should be secure by default.
Tools should be simply yet comprehensively secure.
Cryptography is fundamental to security.

About Paragon Initiative Enterprises - Orlando's Foremost Application Security Consultants

About Our Company

Paragon Initiative Enterprises is a team of technology consultants, website and app developers, and application security experts. We specialize in applied cryptography and PHP development.

Technology Consulting and Application Security Servicesby Paragon Initiative Enterprises in Orlando, FL

Professional Services Offered

Paragon Initiative Enterprise's expertise in web development and application security can help you fulfill your vision for your business's future while ensuring the safety and security of your online presence.

Community Software Projects by Paragon Initiative Enterprises in Orlando, FL

Community Projects

From solving challenging security problems to reducing the cognitive load of proven security strategies, we actively contribute towards the betterment of our community, both online and offline.

What P.I.E. Can Do For You

Our company employs industry-leading experts on web application security and applied cryptography. We…

…and offer many other related services. Our specialty is cryptographically secure PHP development.

Latest Blog Post

Against Cipher Agility in Cryptography Protocols

October 21, 2019 by Scott Arciszewski

Imagine that you want to build a brick wall.

Imagine a brick wall

However, instead of laying each brick deliberately and using mortar to assemble the desired structure, you are instead instructed to assemble a three-dimensional lattice of mortar, like so:

A lattice of mortar with no bricks

This might seem strange, so naturally you ask what the purpose is for such a design. You are told: "This will allow the inhabitants to hot-swap bricks whenever they need to. For example, if an influx of termites that can eat clay brick infest the area, they might want to switch to concrete bricks to protect their house."

Would you trust such a wall to support the weight of a roof?

Clearly not.

So why do we expect cryptography designed this way to be secure?

A lattice of mortar with no bricks

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The Latest From Our Security Team

Latest Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5726, CVE-2016-5727 - Simple Machines Forum - PHP Object Injection

There are several instances where data pulled from $_POST (i.e. inside a foreach loop) is passed directly to unserialize(). As a consequence, SMF is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection and possibly remote code execution.

Latest Code Audit Report

JPaseto Audit

Paragon Initiative Enterprises conducted a comprehensive code review of the JPaseto libraary and discovered one medium-severity vulnerability, which was promptly fixed.

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We develop secure and dependable web-based solutions to help your business succeed.