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We are Cyberus Technology

At Cyberus Technology, our mission is to build open-source digital infrastructure that stands the test of time. We engineer modular, transparent and reproducible software that “just works,” empowering organisations to run critical systems safely for decades.

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  • Founded in 2017
  • Hypervisor on track for BSI VS-NfD
  • 8+ years expertise in Virtualization
  • Sovereignty & OS focused
Cyberus timeline

Our Achievements

Since our founding in 2017, we have come a long way. Scroll down to read through our most significant highlights and success stories that we achieved in the last years.

11/2025

BSI VS-NfD Operational Approval

The operational approval marks the next major step toward becoming the first VS-NfD-accredited Hypervisor in Germany

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04/2025

Founding Member of NeoNephos (Linux Foundation)

After joining the Linux Foundation in March, we also became a founding member of the NeoNephos Foundation.

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04/2025

Cyberus in the Linux Kernel

In collaboration with SAP, our optimizations in Linux 6.15 now initialize HugePages using 25% of hardware threads by default and add the hugetlb_alloc_threads option.

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10/2024

Kick-Off: BSI Certification Process (VS-NfD) for Cyberus Hypervisor

The Cyberus Hypervisor will become certified for VS-NfD workloads. The process, where the BSI acts as demand carrier, has been started and will be completed by EoY 2025.

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10/2024

Release of CTRL-OS: NixOS Long-Term Support

We’ve launched 5-year LTS for NixOS, providing stability, security updates, and guaranteed backports for certified systems like medical devices and IoT.

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08/2024

Tender Win: APEIRO-RA Project with SAP

We won an SAP tender and became their partner to build a European Sovereign Cloud Stack in the context of the IPCEI-CIS project.

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02/2024

Release of KVM Backend for VirtualBox

We open-sourced our KVM backend for VirtualBox, enabling VMs to leverage Linux KVM’s hardware virtualization features for improved performance, security, and guest support. Available on GitHub under open-source license.

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09/2022

Founding Member of ALASCA

Through our role in ALASCA, we are committed to advancing a future-proof, transparent, and sovereign cloud ecosystem — one where innovation is driven by collaboration, openness, and long-term technological independence.

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04/2022

Sponsor of OceanSprint

Cyberus became a sponsor of the OceanSprint event, where the most talented developers from the Nix community come together once per year to create new awesome stuff!

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01/2021

General Availability of Cyberus Secure Virtualization Platform

Secunet has adopted our fast and flexible Secure Virtualization Platform (SVP) as the base platform of SINA Workstation — a secure workstation designed for modern working in Public Administration.

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11/2020

NSA Award: Best Cybersecurity Research Paper

The National Security Agency’s Research Directorate selected a paper co-authored by our team members as the winner of its 8th Annual Best Cybersecurity Research Paper competition.

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01/2018

Discovery of Meltdown & Spectre

Our founders Thomas Prescher and Werner Haas were involved in the discovery of severe security vulnerabilities which affect a wide range of modern processors.

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Vision statement

Cyberus delivers digital infrastructure solutions designed to last decades.