The Trustless Operating System for sovereign computing.
From individuals to enterprises, today’s computing environment faces relentless cyber threats. New malware and hacks emerge at an alarming rate, security labs now detect over 450,000 new malicious files every single day.
This onslaught has driven cybercrime damages to record highs; in 2024 the average data breach cost reached a staggering $4.88 million. Traditional defenses struggle to keep up, and the stakes for failure are immense.
Hackers constantly evolve their tactics. What might be a minor virus yesterday could be a sophisticated ransomware attack today. Each day brings phishing emails, infected websites, and stealthy Trojans aimed at exploiting any weakness.
No matter how diligent users are with antivirus software or updates, something new or unrecognized can slip past. The sheer volume and variety of threats means reactive security (patching and cleaning after an attack) often comes too late.
Cybersecurity isn’t just a technical problem, it’s a human one. One unwitting click on a fake attachment or a reused password can lead to catastrophe. For example, the notorious Qakbot malware spread through booby-trapped emails, infecting over 700,000 computers and facilitating “hundreds of millions of dollars” in damages globally.
Incidents like this show how a single lapse in judgment on a conventional OS can snowball into a company-wide crisis. With employees, contractors, and even IT admins all using complex systems full of legacy code, mistakes are inevitable and attackers know it.
The “human factor” doesn’t go away:
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Mainstream operating systems were not built with today’s threat landscape in mind. Decades-old architecture and monoculture dominance (nearly everyone running the same few OS platforms) mean a single exploit can compromise millions of machines at once.
Attackers regularly take advantage of unpatched software vulnerabilities or use malware that hides in the system, surviving traditional cleanup. Users are left in a reactive cycle, discover breach, try to fix damage, while attackers move on to the next exploit.
The result of these issues is a status quo where using a computer can feel like a risk. Personal data, finances, and business operations are constantly at risk of being stolen or disrupted. The traditional approach, layering more antivirus, hoping users don’t err, and patching endlessly, isn’t holding the line.
A fundamentally new strategy is needed, one that assumes threats will occur and neutralizes them by design. This is the core problem space that NONOS addresses: how to give people trust in their computing again despite an increasingly hostile digital world.
The Trustless Operating System for sovereign computing.