# Overview

This section describes the fundamental concepts and features that underpin the Corda platform, to include:

> - Corda ecosystem
> - Data model
> - Core types
> - Financial model
> - Flow framework
> - Consensus and notaries
> - Vault
> - Security model

Detailed thinking and rationale behind these concepts are presented in the following published white papers:

> - Corda: An Introduction
> - Corda: A Distributed Ledger (Technical White Paper)