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Paragon Initiative Enterprises

Paragon Initiative Enterprises is a Florida-based company that provides software consulting, application development, code auditing, and security engineering services. We specialize in PHP Security and applied cryptography.


The PHP Security Platinum Standard: Raising the Bar with CMS Airship

Announcing the first release of CMS Airship, which establishes the new PHP security platinum standard of today and the gold standard of tomorrow.


Constant-Time Encoding: Boring Cryptography, RFC 4648, and You

The case for character encoding that is safe to use to encode cryptographic secrets.


How to Generate Secure Random Numbers in Various Programming Languages

This blog post will maintain the industry best practices for securely generating random data in Ruby, Node.js, Java, etc.


What's New in Defuse Security's PHP Encryption Library Version 2

Our contributions to defuse/php-encryption and how it affects future behavior


Solve All Your Cryptography Problems in 3 Easy Steps

A layman's introduction to using Halite, our libsodium wrapper


Keyggdrasil, Continuum, and the Cryptography Powering CMS Airship

A deep dive into the cryptography protocols that will secure your blog, should you choose to deploy CMS Airship.


Go PHP 7 - Our Commitment to Maintaining our Open Source Projects

This is our promise to the community to support PHP 5 projects until EOL, and then no later.


Securely Implementing (De)Serialization in PHP

Deserializing a string into a data structure is a simple task riddled with security holes.


Introducing CMS Airship: A Secure Content Management System for the Modern Web

The beta release for a secure-by-default CMS built by Paragon Initiative Enterprises


Client Authenticity is Not the Server's Problem

The answer to a very frequently asked question that most people in the industry know without needing to read this.


Need Technology Consultants?

Will tomorrow bring costly and embarrassing data breaches? Or will it bring growth, success, and peace of mind?

Our team of technology consultants have extensive knowledge and experience with application security and web/application development.

We specialize in cryptography and secure PHP development.

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