Contributing back to the security community

Ryan Lackey and Marc Rogers will be speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco about an open-source network security device called PORTAL. The device is designed to make travel safer for individuals with phones, tablets, laptops, and other network-connected devices by using open-source software and services on inexpensive commodity travel routers. CloudFlare supports projects like this because they value the foundation of security tools and research that has been built over time through academic interest and personal curiosity. The company contributes to the open source community by providing bug fixes, new functionalities, and their own PKI toolkit, CFSSL. They also encourage employees to participate in the security community through various activities such as research, creating new tools, and participating in conferences or working groups.