What Problems Does It Solve?
As traditional cybersecurity can no longer maintain parity in the endless arms race between defenders and attackers, enterprise operations need to move outside the castle walls to a community model of computing.
Naoris Protocol is purpose built for this transition; designed to strengthen cyber-trust in digital systems by flipping the model on its head through its innovative post-quantum blockchain & decentralized AI based solution. that directly and address the key issues.
Quantum Computing & Q-Day
Quantum computers pose a significant threat to current cryptographic algorithms and standard encryption methods, particularly asymmetric public key cryptography, due to their ability to solve complex mathematical problems much faster than classical computers.
This capability could render existing encryption methods vulnerable to being broken
Potential security compromise of sensitive global data and communications
Solution
Naoris Protocol utilizes quantum-resistant keys that make it possible to safeguard blockchains and networks against quantum computing threats, ensuring long-term data protection and maintaining the integrity of digital security infrastructures.
Centralized Devices and Networks
Untrusted Devices & Networks
There is currently no way to trust centralized devices and networks that operate within other parties cybersecurity solutions.
Cybersecurity solutions are owned and governed by a single centralised entity.
There is no way to measure or prove that these devices and networks are operating the way they should or providing that high quality data to other systems and parties outside central control.
Solution
With Naoris Protocol all device and network operations are measured, validated and assured under the dPoSec trust consensus mechanism, providing provable and trusted cybersecurity results that can be shared between multiple relying parties in real time e.g. ecosystem partners, regulators, auditors and government agencies
Single Points of Failure
Centralized cybersecurity solutions organize devices to act as siloed single points of failure****
Devices are vulnerable to attacks and breaches by multiple adversaries
Centralized cloud services concentrate risk in one place that can be compromised
Centralized systems have weak endpoint detection and response to threats
Solution
Under dPoSec all devices become cyber-trusted decentralized validator nodes that validate each other against cyber risk in real time. This decentralized validator network eliminates the need to trust a single entity. Naoris Protocol is a zero trust data architecture tha is always validated, always measured, producing high quality data from known devices
Static 40-year-old Approach
Static and siloed defense mechanisms struggle to keep pace with global complexity and changes outside the enterprise security perimeter
Castle walls are crumbling old models do not meet the community computing needs.
Existing systems remain reactive rather than proactive lacking adaptability and scalability
Systems aren’t fast enough to meet diverse cyber threats & attack methods
Solution
Real-time secure validation of devices means threats are detected in milliseconds, reducing cyber unknowns by an order of magnitude. Naoris Protocol’s unique hybrid consensus mechanism combines proof-of-stake, verifiable computation, and state-of-the-art validator nodes to assure networks against attacks while maintaining efficiency and scalability. Devices and systems can now share data outside the enterprise perimeter because devices are known and measured
Long Breach Detection Time
As we move out beyond enterprise castle perimeters to operate anywhere, current centralized systems are too slow to react to breaches. It only takes one compromised device, where the attacker can change log files behind them, to traverse across the entire enterprise.
Current systems are too slow to cope with widely distributed 3rd party supplier systems
Attackers can operate undetected for a median of 21 days before detection
Breach detection can take lengthy periods to contain, average impact 277 days (IBM)
Solution
Naoris Protocol detects threats and cyber risks in real time, reducing cyber unknowns by an order of magnitude. Because Naoris Protocol is decentralized, always on and a continually validating zero trust architecture for computing resources, even if the entity Naoris Protocol fails, the integrity of the protocol continues.
Privacy Issues
There’s a lack of privacy safeguards for individuals and enterprises within current cybersecurity systems
Centralized cybersecurity systems store massive amounts of sensitive data making them prime targets for cyberattacks
Single point of failures if breached expose all data for individuals and businesses
Regional and global privacy regulations and compliance challenges become complex due to centralized systems
Solution
Naoris Protocol's decentralized nature means that it operates by default as an integrated confidentiality infrastructure that assures privacy and anonymity for individuals and corporate entities. Device identity and operations are assured in real time under blockchain consensus, providing provable and trusted assurance. meaning all data is protected and its source is known and validated
IoT & Complexity
The rise of IoT and the expansion of the enterprise to third parties outside the perimeter exceeds the capabilities of traditional security.
Organizations struggle to secure complex and disparate devices and multi vendor environments
Expanded attack surfaces as mobile and cloud move outside the single security perimeter
Loss of asset control and visibility by relying on multiple 3rd party security solutions
Security risks in shared environments due to complex third-party networks creating fragmented security
Solution
Naoris’s Decentralised Trust Mesh devices operate as decentralized, validated cyber trusted nodes under blockchain consensus, 24/7 always on. Providing each system with the assurance data needed to rely on services outside of the perimeter. Directly solving the problem of operating beyond traditional enterprise perimeters as castles become communities
Real Time Trust Between Multi Parties
Within ever growing global digital complexity, there is currently no way to validate the digital health of my 3rd party data sources, services or networks in real time
Lack of visibility into device-level security posture enables vulnerabilities
No way to continuously monitor device behavior and trust status
Mismanaged and poorly configured devices are easily compromised
Compromised devices create footholds for attackers to further infiltrate
Multiple relying parties need shared realtime trusted data.
Solution
Naoris Protocol provides provable immutable records of the digital health and integrity of the devices that create and consume data. Multiple partners can share access to provable digital health records from validated devices increasing information and asset value through digital proof and forensic evidence. When system health is known, information can be trusted.
Shared Compliance For Multi Parties
Multiple parties rely on critical security data from modern digital systems, but today’s cybersecurity systems are designed for internal audit only, not sharing compliance results
Centralized model insufficient for complex cloud & multi-party dependencies
No real time trust validation within a partner ecosystems
No real time shared proof of compliance between enterprise and regulators
Solution
Naoris Protocol’s always on, always operational, proof of trust system built on blockchain
immutability, validates that devices and networks are operating as intended, producing high quality digital evidence for shared Proof of Compliance within IoT, AI, Zero Trust Systems, & Always On environments
Web3 Problems Inherited From Web2
Issues From Web3
Web3 is built on a foundation of identity, shared services, reliance on API data from others and multiple technology stacks. The Web2 security paradigm of centralized access control within a secure perimeter does not fit this new paradigm.
Information on operational status and cybersecurity anomalies is hard to detect and even harder to share.
Web 3 adoption requires a new approach to deliver high quality data.
As the perimeter melts away the tools used to secure acccess control and the perimeter no longer keep the enterprise safe and the reliability and quality of the data declines.
Solution
Naoris’s decentralized nature shifts physical infrastructure from centralized access models to decentralized identity structures, reducing dependence on singular authorities, enhancing resilience. Sharing of Cyber security results is powered by blockchain and the community economics of Token incentives to motivate individuals and companies to build the physical community infrastructure. Naoris Protocol is a leader in the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) sector
Web3 Device Threats Inherited From Web2
The current physical infrastructure that blockchains use as nodes is not known to be trusted. As we can't measure them , no-one knows if the node has been hacked, or if it is colluding with other nodes. Layer 1 blockchains use cryptographic principles for their security and protection, Naoris Protocol extends those principals to the devices themselves to create a dedicated and scalable DePIN for cybersecurity and trust. Currently, a majority of Web3 nodes operate on Web2 device architecture using centralized cybersecurity solutions, with no way to validate the cyber integrity of those devices. If AWS tomorrow said, we don't want Ethereum anymore, Ethereum would cease to exist. Here’s a list of device threats inherited by Web3:
Account Hijacking risks at the node, user, and exchange levels
API tampering risks
DOS/DDOS
Data corruption or tampering with oracles
Internal threats in exchanges, oracles, protocols, bridges
Update poisoning
Advanced Persistent Threat risks
Sniffing attacks, Key-logging attacks against wallets and servers of any kind
Evil maid attack through hardware or firmware tampering
Identity and Access Management vulnerabilities on nodes, users, oracles, bridges, servers
Malicious browser extensions
Service provider attacks on oracles, nodes, users
Solution
Naoris protocol secures the cyber integrity of all devices under blockchain consensus so Web3 devices can operate and communicate securely and safely, within a Decentalized Mesh. producing known data from known devices to any third party. Naoris Protocol assures that devices have decentalized identities are secure to communicate, and data can be relied on.
Generative AI Models
As with any powerful technology, Generative AI can be exploited by malicious actors to automate and advance their attacks. Generative AI could produce hyper-realistic content, AI-fabricated identities can bypass secure checks, forged legal or corporate documents and counterfeit digital signatures can be used for unauthorized transactions, posing a new risk to the cybersecurity landscape
Generative AI could be used to develop malware that can adapt its behavior on-the-fly to evade detection
Generative AI could craft highly customized spear-phishing emails that mimic legitimate communication, tricking the recipient to share sensitive info or clicking on a malicious link.
AI could be utilized to create botnets that can autonomously identify and attack targets, as well as adapt to defenses. This could make botnets even more resilient and harder to dismantle.
Generative AI can be used to create deep fake audio and video, impersonating trusted individuals to manipulate targets, trick facial recognition systems, or spread disinformation
"As Generative AI becomes the skilled forger of the digital age, we stand on the precipice of an authenticity crisis. Our survival will hinge not on our ability to decipher these illusions, but on creating systems immune to their charm." David Holtzman, Former CTO of IBM, Creator of the DNS System and Chief of Strategy of Naoris Protocol
Solution
Unlike traditional Generative AI that often requires data centralization, Naoris Protocol is fully decentralized validating the hardware, device drivers, and processes that generate output. Therefore under the dPoSec trust consensus, data can stay decentralized as the environment where AI consumes and creates data is fully measured and verifiable for its operational health. In addition Decentralized Swarm AI which operates also under the dPoSec trust consensus method, allows multiple AI agents to collaborate and share information, functioning as a collective intelligence to solve problems and make decisions more effectively than any single centralized agent could on its own.
Societal Problem
Societal Problem: The Scale
Recent major cyberattacks have hit nuclear plants, hospitals, Infrastructure, energy, supply chains, IT, financial, crypto exchanges, government and military systems via partner systems.
Hacking on a corporate scale with hacking groups contracting independent actors
Insufficient Regulation/Compliance standards, adding to vulnerabilities
Geopolitical and National Security Implications implications of cyber threats
Most organizations fail at basic partner security management
Solution
Naoris Protocol’s mission is to restore cyber-trust in digital systems and data quality using Blockchain & AI validation methodologies to trust and verify devices and networks in real time reducing cyber unknowns by an order of magnitude
Financial Damage Problem
By 2025, yearly cybercrime damages will cost $10.5 trillion, up from $3 trillion in 2015, representing about 7% of forecasted global GDP
By 2025 the world’s cybercrime damages will be $10 Trillion
The average cost of a data breach $4.25 million
Global cybersecurity spend will be $1.75 trillion cumulatively for 2021 to 2025
The Solar Winds hack will cost $100 Billion to clean up
2017 Equifax hack compromised private data of [50% of the US population](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/equifax-data-leak-hits-nearly-half-of-the-us-population/#:~:text=Equifax said Thursday that thieves,US population of 323 million.)
Username and password attacks increased 450% up from 2019
Total number of connected devices is set to exceed 50 billion by 2022
Axie Infinity’s Ronin suffers a $625 Million hack
Current detection time for a reported breach is 280 days on average
Data Visualization for the World’s Largest Data Breaches
Solution
Naoris Protocol’s Decentralised Trust Mesh uses blockchain consensus and distributed Swarm AI, to reduce cyber unknowns from partner infrastructure by an order of magnitude through real time, provable device status validation, reversing the current model. The growing Web3 DePIN sector will decentralize all digital architecture and services to address this problem.
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