For 30 years, we've trusted networks. Now they trust nothing. Is your data any safer?
I founded NOMENON to build the next connectivity substrate — one where Identity, not the device, is the foundational primitive.
The network as we know it has a structural problem nobody wants to name. It exists whether or not anyone authorized is present. It's always on, always discoverable, always ready to serve whoever reaches it. Zero Trust tried to fix this, and we ended up with constant verification and an open East-West corridor.
Trust isn't wrong.
The network's premise is.
NOMENON has built something different. We're not selling a better lock for the box. We're questioning whether the box should exist at all.
Before NOMENON, I spent 15 years in Silicon Valley — first in tech finance, investment, and strategy after law school, then as a business owner since 2019. I cut my teeth building proprietary email, VPN, IAM, cloud, and web infrastructure for my last company. That's how I learned the structural flaw at the heart of networking.
I'm currently writing a tech manifesto, RE:TRUST, that lays out the full argument — for building with humanism, albeit a misanthropic variety; for building products that start with trust as a foundational primitive; and, for the network we should have built in the first place. Five parts. Weekly.
If you're a CISO, network architect, or infrastructure leader who has stared at your Zero Trust roadmap and felt something wasn't right — let's talk. I'm looking for three to five enterprise teams to become founding design partners. Help us co-build the next connectivity substrate.
NOMENON is connectivity rebuilt around the people it actually serves.
Don't call it a network.