CAPABILITIES
Security that starts below software
ZMatrix provides deterministic mediation, immutable isolation and verifiable policy enforcement at the hardware layer.
Invariant enforcement
All syscalls and context switches are mediated with hardware-backed checks—no signatures.
Deterministic isolation
Immutable domains for memory, I/O and scheduling; lateral movement cannot originate.
Verifiable boot
Policies are data with proofs embedded at boot; trust is established before the kernel.
Core capabilities
Deep dive into the technical capabilities that make ZMatrix a fundamental shift in operating system security.
ZMatrix leverages CPU virtualization extensions to intercept every syscall, interrupt, and context switch. Unlike software-based security that can be bypassed, hardware enforcement is structural.
Security policies are compiled into decision trees and locked at boot. No runtime modification is possible—eliminating entire classes of privilege escalation and policy tampering attacks.
Each process runs in a hardware-isolated domain with explicit memory, I/O, and scheduling boundaries. Lateral movement is not just detected—it's prevented at the silicon level.
ZMatrix integrates with UEFI Secure Boot and TPM to establish a measured boot chain. Every component from firmware to policy is cryptographically verified before execution.
Rather than comparing against known-bad signatures, ZMatrix enforces what's allowed. Any deviation from declared behavior is blocked—including zero-day exploits that no signature could catch.
ZMatrix operates below the kernel, requiring zero application modifications. Deploy it on existing infrastructure without recompilation, refactoring, or runtime agents.
Attack surface reduction
By enforcing security at the hardware layer, ZMatrix eliminates entire categories of attacks that traditional security tools can only detect or mitigate after compromise.
Buffer overflows, use-after-free, and ROP chains are blocked at execution time—before they can redirect control flow.
Kernel exploits gain nothing—the microvisor enforces separation even if the kernel is compromised.
Process isolation is hardware-enforced. An attacker cannot pivot between domains, even with root.