Networkless connectivity
Ockam works at the application layer.
When application security is decoupled from your network,
you can skip the pain of implicit trust in your network.
Secure-by-design
Ockam is audited.
So your applications can be secure too.
The Magic
of Ockam means you can stop punching holes in firewalls
Portals
Portals carry various protocols over end-to-end encrypted Ockam secure channels. They work at the application level and abstract away the setup, management, and security of the network layer.
When you decouple application connectivity and security from your network, you can build secure systems without touching the network.
No port forwarding, no changes to firewalls, no VPNs, no reverse proxies, no Private Link… get systems connected within minutes.
Virtual Adjacency
The magical thing that Ockam unlocks using Portals is what's called Virtual Adjacency.
A Portal connects your app to a remote application and virtually pulls
it through the Portal. It appears as though they sit next to each
other on the same machine. That means applications are available to
each other on localhost in a peer-to-peer way.
You don't have to change any of the network layer configurations. There's no need to understand anything at the network layer at all.
In this way we say: "Ockam is Networkless."