Technology is getting smarter. Humans make mistakes. Breaches happen. Now, more than ever, it is imperative to be proactive by incorporating preemptive cyber defense capabilities.

Such capabilities include composite security (CS) solutions. These solutions combine advanced encryption, obfuscation, and other technologies to provide defense in depth. CS solutions are essential to create robust and cost-effective security against multimodal attacks that leverage classic large-scale computing, AI, and — very soon — quantum computers. Indeed, Figure 2 of a Gartner report on Emerging Tech: Security — Top Trends in Preemptive Cyber Defense reveals postquantum cryptography (PQC) concerns will become real by as early as 2026:

HyperSphere provides a proactive CS solution uniquely designed to safeguard unstructured data from multimodal attacks including classic large-scale computing, AI, and quantum computers. The HyperSphere® CS solution safeguards data through its robust encryption, data obfuscation, and distribution methods, all powered by its patented Quantum Immune Data Protection or QIDP® technology, as follows:

Transform data into a full-fidelity (i.e., non-sharded) representation or quantum image to encrypt and obfuscate it. Confidentiality and privacy are maintained even in the event of an attack or compromise;


Fortify any encryption cipher (including AES-256 GCM) by transforming a cipher key into a plurality of quantum imprints to hide and auto-rotate the key in multi-dimensional space. By doing so, (i) keys are never persisted or disclosed, without the need for conventional key management systems; and (ii) the stream of cipher keys is protected using both information-theoretic and industry-standard computational security; and


Distribute quantum images and imprints to multiple storage destinations to increase resiliency and availability in the event of corruption, outage, or attack.

As seen above, in less than two years, quantum computing attacks will begin. In less than five years, conventional asymmetric cryptography is anticipated to be unsafe.

As such, resilience against PQC threat should be started now. Indeed, Gartner mentions that “[m]ore than 90% of clients don’t know where they are using crypto” wherein the journey to integrate quantum-resistant algorithms (such as the AES- 256 symmetric algorithm) must be made a priority. Security practitioners who take such action now should be the norm and will be prepared for what is to come.

CS solutions are essential to combat not just multimodal attacks but also to comply with higher security standards and privacy concerns being mandated, for example, by the EU’s NIS2 Directive, the California Privacy Rights Act, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

HYPERSPHERE’S PROACTIVE COMPOSITESECURITY SOLUTION

Simplifies the ongoing management of stored data while eliminating key vulnerabilities (responsible for 60+% of all cyber attacks).

Restore encrypted/ compromised/deleted data to its last known good state.

Full fidelity

Secure your storage with infinite resilience against AI, quantum threats, ransomware, and human misconfigurations and do so without costly and complex key management.

Keyless

Nothing about your data is changed, so it retains maximum forensic integrity. (no fragmenting, no sharding, no reassembly.)

A representative quantum image and its immediate benefits may be seen below:

As further illustrated below, the HyperSphere CS solution is delivered as a virtual appliance, which may be seamlessly integrated into existing systems through its S3- compatible interface without misconfigurations:

THE FUTURE OF COMPOSITE SECURITY IS NOW

According to Gartner, “[d]efense in depth in not a new security concept, but it is becoming an essential component of any serious security offering.” Gartner further states “[b]y 2026, 95% of security solutions will combine multiple security measures to frustrate multimodal attack vectors.”

We believe the recognition of HyperSphere by Gartner as an Example Vendor in the CS solution space underscores other of its leadership efforts. HyperSphere is the first and only solution to have a published NIST National Checklist hardening guide, derived from NIST 800-53 rev5, and aligning to both FISMA and DoD IL4 baselines:

Moreover, these baselines were peer-reviewed by the NSA. HyperSphere has also already initiated the DoD STIG baseline process, DoDIN Approved Products Listing, and the DoD Iron Bank Registry.

As evidenced above, HyperSphere is poised to be foundational to an organization’s preemptive cyber defense capabilities. Indeed, we believe HyperSphere is essential to (i) create robust and cost-effective security against multimodal attacks that leverage classic large-scale computing, AI, and quantum computers; and (ii) comply with ever-demanding security standards and privacy laws.