Open Source Software

Our software is open source. Anyone can look at the code and businesses and individuals can use the software without charge. Would you trust closed source software with your most sensitive information?

While our software is open source, we do offer consulting and professional services to streamline your deployments and configuration, provide support, and make any necessary code changes. Contact us to start the conversation.

Our Open Source Projects

We have lots of open source projects and on this page we describe the projects you are likely most interested in. All of our projects are on GitHub.

Phileas is the core of our software. It is a powerful software library that is capable of finding PII and redacting it. But it doesn't stop there. Phileas can also encrypt, mask, anonymize, and replace sensitive information, as well as apply redaction logic to give the user full control of the redaction process.

Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.

Philter is our flag-ship product for a turnkey PII redaction solution. It builds on Phileas to provide an API layer that lets Philter's redaction capabilities be integrated into virtually any workflow. In addition to being open source, Philter is available in the AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure marketplaces.

Learn more about Philter or launch it in your private cloud today.

Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.

Our products perform PII redaction using policies. A policy defines the types of PII you want to redact and how you want to redact it. The Policy Registry is an open source application that provides a centralized location for managing policies. Most useful in large organizations, the Policy Registry simplifies the management and distribution of policies across departments and users.

Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.

We recognize the importance of performance when redacting PII. The Phileas Benchmark open source project provides a way to evaluate how fast redaction can be done across several pieces of text. We use this project to ensure any changes introduced into Phileas do not negatively affect its performance.

Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.

Philter SDKs

Philter is an open source application for redacting PII via an API. To make integrating Philter in your applications easy, we have several open source Philter client SDK projects.

All Philter SDK projects are licensed under the Apache License, version 2.

Open Source Software FAQ

Is Philterd's software open source?

The core component of our software that identifies and redacts sensitive information is open source. The project is called Phileas and it is available on GitHub.

Our other products are built on top of Phileas. Those projects are not open source. The AI models used by Philter and Phirestream are also not open source at this time.

Why shouldn't I just use the open source code?

You absolutely can per the open source license. We do ask, but it is not required, that if you use the open source code, please contribute back in some way. It doesn't have to be a major feature with lots of code. All contributions, even the smallest documentation fixes or bug reports, are helpful to everyone! A rising tide lifts all boats - other users will benefit from your contributions.

What does Philter and Phirestream add to the open source code?

Philter and Phirestream have user support and AI models custom trained for identifying sensitive information.

I found a problem in the open source code or documentation. What do I do?

Great! The first thing to do is identify which GitHub project the problem belongs to. Once you have done that, use the project's Issues tab in GitHub to create an issue. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to let us know!