# Cybernetica

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Privately held<br><strong>Pricing:</strong> B2G procurement. X-Road is open-source (NIIS Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions).<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Tallinn-based, founded 1997. The company behind X-Road — the secure data-exchange backbone used by Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Argentina and others for e-government services. Plus secure communications, maritime surveillance, defence applications. The single most consequential Estonian software company most people have never heard of. Cybernetica essentially designed the technical architecture of modern e-government — Estonia's entire digital state, plus the equivalents in other countries that adopted X-Road.<br><a href="https://cyber.ee">https://cyber.ee</a></p>

https://cyber.ee