The Small Business Owner
30 employees. One bad click. Everything encrypted.
Every machine has antivirus. We are covered.
One employee clicks a link that installs a custom payload with no existing signature. It sits dormant for two weeks, mapping your network and exfiltrating client records. When it deploys ransomware, every workstation and your file server encrypt in eleven minutes. Your antivirus never flagged it because the payload was written specifically for your environment. Average recovery cost is $2.3M. Many small businesses never reopen.
The payload is classified through the mathematical structure of its own data the moment it arrives. Not by recognizing what it is, but by detecting that its structural properties are inconsistent with legitimate data when translated through the non-binary domain. The payload is quarantined before a single user sees it.