Protectorium

Protectorium

Protectorium

June 26, 2025

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Primer - Protectorium

Let's rethink cyber risk together.

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PROTECTORIUM

There is no way to prevent 100% of cyber risks. That is why businesses go to insurance companies. The problem is that cyber insurance is broken.

As an insurance company, you can’t properly assess risk and verify a cyber claim without access to the company’s IT infrastructure. But sharing sensitive infrastructure data with a third party is a non-starter for many security-conscious enterprises. This trust gap appears at both ends of the insurance lifecycle: at the start, it blocks underwriting; at the end, it blocks claims verification. As a result, companies spend weeks on onboarding and payout processing.

What if cyber insurance didn’t require trust? Zero-Knowledge Cryptography allows insurers to work with pre-validated proofs — strong evidence that confirms both the company’s security posture and the occurrence of a cyber incident, without exposing sensitive corporate data.

We are building Protectorium, an infrastructure software platform for cyber insurance that unlocks the rise of the Exponential Underwriter — a new kind of insurer built for a world of exponential risk. Driven by cryptographic automation, they operate beyond the limits of traditional insurance, rewriting how trust and protection work in a cyberspace.

PRTC VISION

In a world of escalating cyber threats, insurers must move to the frontlines — not as observers, but as trusted digital allies. Protectorium gives them a real-time digital shield: infrastructure that detects attacks as they unfold, determines what happened, and responds without delay.

Insurance becomes part of the defense — not the aftermath. We’re changing how insurers operate in a world where risk moves at machine speed.

PRTC MISSION

Our mission is simple and urgent: to protect digital private property through cryptographic insurance infrastructure. As insurers enter a new era of real-time, machine-speed cyber risk, they can no longer rely only on static questionnaires and post-incident guesswork.

Protectorium builds a full-stack platform — from secure log collection and incident validation to Zero-Knowledge Proofs generation and automated claims handling. Each component is designed to help insurers detect threats as they unfold, confirm incidents without accessing sensitive systems, and respond in minutes, not months.

WHAT WE ARE BUILDING

I. Solution Overview

Our first priority is cyber risk underwriting. Protectorium eliminates the trust gap between insurer and policyholder through an architectural solution that integrates directly into the client’s IT environment. This lightweight module connects to systems like SIEM, EDR, and WAF to monitor security logs in real time — without storing internal data or maintaining a database. It not only captures and signs events, but also performs stress testing to check the resilience and reliability of key system components.

Our second priority is claims verification. The same architecture enables instant incident recognition by leveraging authentic, pre-validated machine data — including attack logs, alert triggers, and forensic traces collected from systems like EDR, SIEM, and WAF. It serves as trusted input for generating ZK Proofs, which confirm not only that an incident occurred, but that it meets policy conditions — all without revealing sensitive infrastructure. Insurers receive these proofs through platform notifications. The mitigation process begins the moment a breach is proven.

II. Solution Architecture

On the diagram below, you can see the platform architecture, built as a microservices-based system consisting of 13 core modules — from data collection and incident detection to cryptographic proof generation and insurer-facing APIs. Detailed module descriptions and sequence diagrams are available upon request.

III. Solution Stack

Working process starts with lightweight agents that connect to systems like EDR, SIEM, and WAF to capture critical security events. These events are digitally signed and sent — without being stored locally — to an immutable vault. From there, the system detects incidents, checks them against policy conditions, and generates ZK Proofs when needed. These proofs are instantly delivered to insurers through our API layer. Every part of the stack is designed to be easy to deploy, secure by default, and transparent to audit.

PARTNERSHIP

WE’RE LOOKING FOR INSURANCE & SECURITY PARTNERS READY TO RETHINK CYBER RISK.

LET’S CHANGE THE GAME TOGETHER.

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