About Virtru

Virtru’s story starts in the U.S. government, with Will Ackerly working at the NSA and John Ackerly working in the White House.

Will, our CTO, created the Trusted Data Format (TDF), an open and powerful data protection standard embraced by the intelligence community. John, our CEO, was a White House policy advisor during 9/11. Both John and Will independently observed a key unmet need across government agencies: Data was stored in silos, and it was incredibly difficult to share securely.

Data locked away in a silo is wasted potential for unlocking new insights. And when it’s shared too broadly, it creates immense privacy and national security risk. It’s a true conundrum: Public and private organizations alike need a way to share information while maintaining complete control over exactly who can access that information — retaining full control over it at all times.

Leveraging the TDF that Will created, John and Will set out to make powerful, simple data protection accessible to all.

Since its founding in 2011, Virtru has scaled up to empower over 7,000 customers to protect their most valuable asset, their data, with Zero-Trust security and powerful, granular policy controls that tie identity to data, everywhere it moves.

We empower commercial software developers to innovate on TDF using our cloud APIs for Zero Trust Data Control.  Further, we warmly welcome community developers to build upon and contribute to the OpenTDF project.