Ory is an open-source software company for zero trust security. Ory Cloud combines the primitives of zero trust including identity management, authorisation and access control in a globally distributed cloud network. Ory runs a number of open-source software projects Hydra Kratos, and Keto. Ory's mission is to provide a common access control, authorization and identity infrastructure that manages IAM, and the associated data created in cloud applications. Ory is a distributed organization with headquarters in Doylestown, PA and offices in Munich, Germany. The open-source project was started in 2015 by Thomas Aidan Curran and Aeneas Rekkas who later formed a commercial entity for the purpose of building a cloud business in 2019. Ory's founders are open-source leaders with experience at SAP, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft, and Deutsche Börse Group.