ZURICH, June 27,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DFINITY Foundation
announces the launch of UTOPIA, a new compute platform technology
that creates private serverless clouds powered with unique security
and resilience properties. The technology will enable enterprises
and governments to build systems and services that do not depend on
highly fallible cybersecurity technologies such as firewalls and
anti-malware for protection against cyber attacks. The technology
enables AI to run securely, enables software to manage digital
assets natively, and allows governments to achieve sovereignty.
UTOPIA is an acronym for "Unstoppable Tamperproof Open Platform for
Independent Autonomy."
UTOPIA technology directly addresses the critical IT challenges
of our time. In 2025, the annual cost of cybercrime will pass
10 trillion dollars, with AI set to
accelerate the growth of this problem dramatically. Today,
everything from critical enterprise infrastructure to simple
websites is at constant risk from ransomware that takes down
systems while penetrative hacks continue to exfiltrate sensitive
data at scale. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, 9,487 new data
breaches have been publicly disclosed, with more than 35 billion
personal records revealed to have been stolen. As this situation
continues to worsen, cybersecurity threatens to become a challenge
on a par with war and climate change.
Governments and enterprises can use UTOPIA's open-source
software to create private and sovereign serverless cloud platforms
using compute capacity such as servers in data centers and compute
instances provided by existing cloud services. What sets the
technology apart, is that UTOPIA cloud platforms are created by a
network protocol with mathematical properties that guarantee
tamper-resistance and resilience, in ways analogous to blockchain
technology, but with efficiency, performance and scalability
characteristics suitable for hosting enterprise compute at
scale.
UTOPIA cloud platforms can host serverless software that hackers
cannot interact with in ways that allow them to change
functionality, access private data, or install ransomware that
encrypts software and data. This heralds a revolution in the way
that enterprises and governments can build systems and
services.
Dominic Williams, Founder and
Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation commented "UTOPIA
reinvents compute by solving for the greatest IT challenges of our
time: cybersecurity, resilience, IT productivity and sovereignty.
Governments are wary of cloud services as they must surrender
sensitive data to them. UTOPIA offers a solution by enabling them
to operate next-generation private sovereign clouds over
home-country hardware that have game-changing security
properties."
IT productivity is a pressing issue for enterprises and
governments. The world spends 2 trillion
dollars a year on IT personnel, who often spend the vast
majority of their time chasing the complexity of current IT. UTOPIA
platforms host serverless software and data in a secure serverless
cloud environment that increases productivity by dramatically
simplifying the development and administration of online systems
and services.
UTOPIA technology is based on ICP (Internet Computer Protocol),
which currently powers the Internet Computer network. In over three
years in production, the Internet Computer has never suffered an
outage, or a hack, while hosting hundreds of applications and
millions of users. This means that ICP technology has been
battle-proven and hardened for powering a public network that runs
in the most demanding threat environment possible.
About the Internet Computer:
The Internet Computer is
currently used by millions of users and runs thousands of
applications. Applications on the Internet Computer are built from
smart contracts giving them the security features from blockchain,
making them tamperproof and unstoppable. Different from other
blockchain platforms, smart contracts on the Internet Computer are
very powerful and on par with traditional software: they can serve
web content, interact with any other Internet services, and process
large amounts of data. A further difference is that due to the
unique architecture and novel cryptography, the Internet Computer
is energy efficient and comparable with traditional software that
runs on Big Tech's cloud services, and orders of magnitude lower
than competing blockchains.
About DFINITY:
The DFINITY Foundation was established
in Zürich, Switzerland, in 2016.
Since then, it has become the largest blockchain tech employer in
Switzerland and the DACH Region,
with talented people from local and international organizations,
such as IBM Research, Google Research, Meta, etc. The DFINITY
Foundation is the creator and a major contributor to the Internet
Computer, a third-generation blockchain that extends the
functionality of the Internet from a network that connects devices
globally to a computing platform that hosts systems and services
directly on the blockchain.
Contact:
Aaron Dodd
aaron.dodd@dfinity.org
+351 85 192 6681
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