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Crunchy Data is a privately held company based in Charleston, South Carolina, that provides product and support services to the open-source database [[|PostgreSQL]. The company was founded in 2012 by Bob and Paul Laurence with the mission of helping security-conscious organizations use PostgreSQL for their operations.

Open-source Software
Crunchy Data is an active contributor to the PostgreSQL open-source community, where it is recognized as a. Crunchy Data employs several active contributors to the PostgreSQL open-source community project Tom Lane, Stephen Frost, Greg Smith, Joe Conway, Jonathan Katz, Peter Geoghegan, and Paul Ramsey.

In addition to PostgreSQL, Crunchy Data actively maintains and contributes to a variety of open-source software projects and extensions, including:


 * PostGIS, support for geographic objects to PostgreSQL.
 * PgBackRest [[3], https://pgbackrest.org/], a simple and secure backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL.
 * PGAudit [[4], https://www.pgaudit.org/], detailed session and object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL
 * PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes [[2], https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator], a controller that runs within a Kubernetes cluster that provides a means to deploy and manage PostgreSQL clusters.

Security
Crunchy Data has been active in the development of security accreditation for PostgreSQL. In 2017, Crunchy Data co-authored the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for PostgreSQL [[8], https://appdevelopermagazine.com/dod-releases-postgresql-security-technical-implementation-guide/] with the Defense Information Security Agency to define how PostgreSQL can be deployed and configured to meet security requirements for government systems. In 2018, in collaboration with the Center for Internet Security [[9 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crunchy-data-collaborates-with-center-for-internet-security-to-advance-postgresql-security-for-enterprise-300688818.html], Crunchy Data co-authored the PostgreSQL CIS Benchmark [[7], https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/postgresql/] describing how PostgreSQL can be configured and deployed to meet security requirements for their systems. In 2021, Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL received Common Criteria certification at the EAL 2+ level [[x+1] for the commercially supported distribution of PostgreSQL12 [ref https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crunchy-certified-postgresql-12-achieves-common-criteria-evaluation-assurance-level-eal-2-certification-301257438.html].