Inspired
by nature.

Nature spent 3.8 billion years perfecting defense. Immune systems that learn. Swarms that coordinate without leaders. Neural networks that adapt in real time. We built the same thing — for your infrastructure.

Discover Shield

Your body doesn't wait for a committee to fight an infection. A bee colony doesn't need a CEO to coordinate its defense.

The best defense systems in nature are distributed, adaptive, and autonomous. They detect anomalies instantly. They share intelligence across the network. They explain nothing to attackers — and everything to the organism they protect.

We asked: why doesn't digital infrastructure work like this? Then we built Qriton Shield.


What we learned
from nature.

Every feature in Shield maps to a defense mechanism that already exists in the natural world.

01

The immune system

Your body recognizes threats it's never seen before by detecting anomalies — not by matching signatures. Shield's AI does the same. Novel attacks don't need a rule. They need to look wrong.

02

Swarm intelligence

Ants share chemical signals. Bees dance. When one Shield node detects a threat, every node in the network knows within seconds. No central brain. No single point of failure. Distributed defense.

03

Neural adaptation

Brains rewire themselves based on experience. Shield's neural networks continuously learn your traffic patterns and adapt thresholds — tightening during attacks, relaxing during calm. Automatic. No tuning required.

04

Graduated response

Nature doesn't deploy the full immune response for a scratch. Shield uses four threat tiers — allow, rate-limit, challenge, block — escalating proportionally. No false positives from overreaction.

05

Night watch

Animals are more vigilant at night, when predators are most active. Shield automatically raises its guard during off-hours when your team is asleep — and relaxes when they're at their desks.

06

Memory

An immune system that's fought a virus remembers it forever. Shield's federated blocklist is a shared memory across every deployment. Attack one node — and every node on Earth remembers your IP.

Qriton Shield

Defend everything.
Explain everything.

Distributed threat intelligence. In production. Right now.

5,000+
Threats blocked
<50ms
Detection to block
99.9%
Uptime

Deploy across your infrastructure — and watch nodes start defending each other. Every blocking decision is explainable. Every audit trail is complete. Every deployment meets EU AI Act requirements from day one.

DDoS Protection

Federated blocklists and swarm-based mitigation across every node in your network.

Explainable AI

Every blocked IP comes with a plain-language "why." No black boxes — reasoning traces by design.

EU AI Act Ready

Complete audit trails and compliance documentation built in from day one.

Available on
Windows Linux Node.js

Traditional WAF vs Shield.

Setup
Hours to days
Under 5 minutes
Response
100–500ms
<50ms
Configuration
Complex rules
Self-learning
Threat Intel
Periodic downloads
Real-time network

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AI you can explain
to a regulator.

In regulated environments, "the algorithm decided" isn't an answer. It's a liability. We build AI systems where every decision has a clear, human-readable explanation — because that's what the EU AI Act demands, and what your board deserves.

Explainable by design

Not post-hoc explainability bolted onto a black box. The architecture itself produces reasoning traces. Every blocked IP comes with a plain-language "why."

EU AI Act compliance

Risk classification, documentation, monitoring, and human oversight — built into the system from the start. Compliance as architecture, not paperwork.

Complete audit trails

Every input, every output, every decision, every override. When someone asks "why" — and they will — you answer in seconds.

Who we are.

Qriton is a European technology company founded in Romania. We study how nature solves defense — then we build those patterns into infrastructure that protects organizations.

Our flagship product, Qriton Shield, is in production today — blocking real attacks, sharing intelligence across nodes, and generating clear explanations for every decision it makes.

We're a small team with a specific conviction: if AI is making security decisions, those decisions need to be as explainable as the biology that inspired them.

Transparent. Auditable. European. Built to a standard where trust isn't a feature — it's the foundation.

Let's talk.

Whether you're under attack, planning your defense, or trying to understand what the EU AI Act means for your systems — we'd rather have a real conversation than send you a PDF.