Research

Cyberus Technology is proud to contribute to ApeiroRA (Apeiro Reference Architecture), a pioneering initiative focused on building a sovereign, secure, and open-source-based cloud infrastructure for Europe. As part of the IPCEI-CIS (Important Project of Common European Interest - Cloud Infrastructure and Services) framework, ApeiroRA sets out to define a blueprint for a European cloud ecosystem that is independent, interoperable, and resilient.

Our role within ApeiroRA is to drive the development of critical technologies — particularly in the areas of secure virtualization, system automation, and infrastructure hardening. Drawing from our expertise in building lightweight hypervisors and secure system foundations, we are helping to ensure that the resulting architectures meet the highest standards for security, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

At the heart of our work is the goal of giving European enterprises, public institutions, and cloud providers full control over their digital infrastructure, free from proprietary dependencies. We also engage closely with partner organizations through NeoNephos and contribute to shaping common standards and technical frameworks that promote openness, transparency, and technological sovereignty.

Through ApeiroRA, Cyberus Technology is actively shaping the future of Europe’s cloud infrastructure — a future built on collaboration, innovation, and trust.

Within the SEMECO research initiative, Cyberus Technology is helping to shape the future of secure and modular digital systems, with a strong focus on medical technologies and critical infrastructure.

SEMECO, coordinated by the Barkhausen Institute and supported by leading organizations such as Telekom, Zeiss, and secunet, brings together expertise from across industry and academia to create more flexible, secure, and interoperable platforms.

Cyberus contributes its experience in secure virtualization, trusted execution environments, and remote attestation to develop architectures that enable sensitive healthcare data and critical systems to operate safely and efficiently across distributed environments. A key part of our involvement is supporting the design of systems that can be dynamically adapted to new requirements — while maintaining the highest standards of trust, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

In addition, our participation in SEMECO allows us to align our technology with long-term certification goals, ensuring that the Cyberus Hypervisor can serve as a trusted foundation for next-generation secure platforms. We are also exploring emerging opportunities around innovative medical technologies, where lightweight, high-assurance virtualization can enable new applications.

Through SEMECO, Cyberus Technology is committed to driving forward a vision of digital ecosystems that are modular, secure, and future-proof — empowering the next generation of medical ecosystems.

In the HypErSIS project, Cyberus Technology is working to redefine how security is implemented in virtualized environments. Traditional security solutions, installed within the guest operating system, are often vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that can disable or bypass them.

HypErSIS takes a fundamentally different approach: embedding Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) mechanisms directly into the hypervisor layer — the virtualization core that controls the entire system. By relocating security controls outside the guest system, HypErSIS creates a hardened, tamper-proof environment that significantly raises the bar for attackers. Even if a virtual machine is compromised, monitoring and detection capabilities remain intact at the hypervisor level.

At Cyberus Technology, we contribute with deep expertise in Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) — the technique of observing guest systems from the outside. Our research focuses on making VMI-based detection both highly efficient and highly precise, ensuring security mechanisms can operate without degrading system performance. The insights gained from our work, including optimizations in VMI breakpoint performance, are critical to enabling real-time threat detection with minimal overhead.

HypErSIS strengthens the resilience of Windows-based virtual machines and sets new standards for securing cloud platforms, data centers, and enterprise IT infrastructures — building the technological foundation for a safer digital future.

In the DARKSOL project, Cyberus Technology is collaborating with TU Dresden and D3TN GmbH to pioneer new architectures for space cloud operations and lifecycle management.

DARKSOL explores how cloud-based services can be extended into space environments using Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) technologies, enabling robust and efficient data management across satellites and other space-based platforms.

Cyberus Technology contributes expertise in secure system architectures, virtualization, and reliable software infrastructures to help build flexible and resilient space cloud ecosystems. By addressing the unique challenges of space — such as high-latency communication, disrupted connections, and autonomous system management — DARKSOL is laying the groundwork for the next generation of secure, distributed computing beyond Earth.

Through DARKSOL, we are helping to redefine what is possible in cloud computing — expanding from terrestrial networks to space-based, autonomous, and disruption-resilient digital ecosystems.