HYPERSPHERE IS RECOGNIZED AS A SAMPLE VENDOR BY GARTNER® IN EMERGING TECH: BUILD PREEMPTIVE SECURITY SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THREAT DETECTION (PART 1)
BY HYPERSPHERE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
March 17, 2025
Many traditional cybersecurity solutions may be characterized as “detect-and-respond.” In the past, such reactive defenses have been adequate. They are not today.
The world is no longer about guards standing ready atop castle walls to defend against a known, predictable enemy. Today, the threat is constantly evolving and dynamic using the guise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).
Due to the rise of GenAI, security practitioners must assume breach and plan accordingly. Proactive, defense-in-depth strategies—or preemptive cyber defense solutions—must be employed. As stated by Gartner in their Emerging Tech Disruptors: Top 5 Early Disruptive Trends in Cybersecurity for 2025 report, “by 2030, preemptive cybersecurity solutions will account for 50% of IT security spending, up from less than 5% in 2024, and replace traditional ‘stand-alone’ detection and response solutions as the preferred approach to defend against cyberthreats.”
The world is no longer about guards standing ready atop castle walls to defend against a known, predictable enemy. Today, the threat is constantly evolving and dynamic using the guise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).
Due to the rise of GenAI, security practitioners must assume breach and plan accordingly. Proactive, defense-in-depth strategies—or preemptive cyber defense solutions—must be employed. As stated by Gartner in their Emerging Tech Disruptors: Top 5 Early Disruptive Trends in Cybersecurity for 2025 report, “by 2030, preemptive cybersecurity solutions will account for 50% of IT security spending, up from less than 5% in 2024, and replace traditional ‘stand-alone’ detection and response solutions as the preferred approach to defend against cyberthreats.”
Employ Automated Moving Target Defense to Shift Threat Detection Toward Prevention
In a modular, future-proof manner, SecureStorage is able to use any cipher to encrypt the data. To comply with current DoD and NIST requirements, SecureStorage employs AES-GCM 256 and does so at less than < 1% overhead, all with confidentiality, integrity, and resiliency on demand.
The “C” in AES-GCM 256 stands for “counter.” The counter is there to ensure the theoretical limit of approximately 64GB for data encryption for this cipher is not reached and data leakage occurs. Another inherent benefit in HyperSphere’s AMTD-based SecureStorage is the elimination of data leakage caused when too much data is pushed through a cipher before the cipher key is rotated.
The AMTD-based SecureStorage solution may be seamlessly integrated into existing systems through its S3-compatible interface. HyperSphere offers a comprehensive range of deployment options tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations. Such options comprise on-premises deployment, cloud deployment, hybrid deployment, managed deployment, virtual appliance deployment, hardware appliance deployment, or containerized deployment.
The “C” in AES-GCM 256 stands for “counter.” The counter is there to ensure the theoretical limit of approximately 64GB for data encryption for this cipher is not reached and data leakage occurs. Another inherent benefit in HyperSphere’s AMTD-based SecureStorage is the elimination of data leakage caused when too much data is pushed through a cipher before the cipher key is rotated.
The AMTD-based SecureStorage solution may be seamlessly integrated into existing systems through its S3-compatible interface. HyperSphere offers a comprehensive range of deployment options tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations. Such options comprise on-premises deployment, cloud deployment, hybrid deployment, managed deployment, virtual appliance deployment, hardware appliance deployment, or containerized deployment.
HyperSphere’s Automated Moving Target Defense Solution
The AMTD strategies described above are a simplistic description of aspects of SecureStorage™ offered under the HyperSphere® brand.
SecureStorage protects data before it is even written to disk. It does so by securing the data itself—down to the file level and indeed the frame level—using AMTD strategies.
In particular, before an organization’s data is even stored, SecureStorage encrypts the data, by frame. The encryption key for that frame is hidden in fourth-dimensional space, namely, the intersection of two hyperspheres in space and time. The process happens again for the next frame wherein a new, wholly independent key is re-seeded automatically until the process is complete. Not only are key vulnerabilities eliminated but a single object may contain thousands of keys that can never be lost, stolen, or misplaced, providing additional defense-in-depth against physical and cyber threats.
SecureStorage protects data before it is even written to disk. It does so by securing the data itself—down to the file level and indeed the frame level—using AMTD strategies.
In particular, before an organization’s data is even stored, SecureStorage encrypts the data, by frame. The encryption key for that frame is hidden in fourth-dimensional space, namely, the intersection of two hyperspheres in space and time. The process happens again for the next frame wherein a new, wholly independent key is re-seeded automatically until the process is complete. Not only are key vulnerabilities eliminated but a single object may contain thousands of keys that can never be lost, stolen, or misplaced, providing additional defense-in-depth against physical and cyber threats.
With attackers constantly evolving their tactics using GenAI, and with the threat of quantum computers on the horizon, organizations of all sizes need to adopt preemptive defense strategies to stay ahead. One such preemptive strategy is automated moving target defense (AMTD).
AMTD is based on the military premise that a moving target is harder to attack than a stationary one. AMTD works to disrupt or confuse the attacker from gaining a foothold in the environment, and if so, remaining there.
To elaborate, let’s return to the medieval analogy using gold (data) held in a chest (storage) kept in the castle with guards atop the walls. Let’s employ AMTD and let’s assume breach.
In this case, hide the castle gold in more than one chest, with locks having different keys. Automatically change the keys. Obfuscate the keys in a manner that they can never be lost or stolen. Before the gold is even placed in the chests, obfuscate the gold so if the attacker breaks into a chest there is confusion as to what the attacker is seeing other than something seemingly worthless or useless.
AMTD is based on the military premise that a moving target is harder to attack than a stationary one. AMTD works to disrupt or confuse the attacker from gaining a foothold in the environment, and if so, remaining there.
To elaborate, let’s return to the medieval analogy using gold (data) held in a chest (storage) kept in the castle with guards atop the walls. Let’s employ AMTD and let’s assume breach.
In this case, hide the castle gold in more than one chest, with locks having different keys. Automatically change the keys. Obfuscate the keys in a manner that they can never be lost or stolen. Before the gold is even placed in the chests, obfuscate the gold so if the attacker breaks into a chest there is confusion as to what the attacker is seeing other than something seemingly worthless or useless.
Employ Automated Moving Target Defense to Shift Threat Detection Toward Prevention
Cyber defense strategies must protect what is considered by most to be the most valuable asset of the organization—its data. However, and oddly enough, such immensely valuable property is still being defended using conventional, reactive solutions. Moreover, the data is often kept in storage that is poorly protected or not protected at all. Storage security is thus being breached at breakneck speeds, ad nauseam, by ordinary, droll hackers. Faced with a motivated nation-state bad actor and time, the attack is relentless with data being harvested now to be breached later in anticipation of the near future—quantum computers.
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.
HyperSphere is proud to announce it has been mentioned as a Sample Vendor by Gartner for the AMTD category. Gartner subscribers can access the full report at Emerging Tech: Build Preemptive Security Solutions to Improve Threat Detection (Part 1), by Luis Castillo and Carl Manion; 7 October 2024.
Such recognition comes on the heels of first mention of HyperSphere as an Example Vendor by Gartner for the Composite Security Solutions in the 2024 Gartner Emerging Tech: Security — Top Trends in Preemptive Cyber Defense, by John Collins, Luis Castillo, Isy Bangurah, Walker Black; 4 September 2024.
We believe the recognition of HyperSphere by Gartner as an Example Vendor in Composite Security and as a Sample Vendor in the AMTD solution spaces 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:
Such recognition comes on the heels of first mention of HyperSphere as an Example Vendor by Gartner for the Composite Security Solutions in the 2024 Gartner Emerging Tech: Security — Top Trends in Preemptive Cyber Defense, by John Collins, Luis Castillo, Isy Bangurah, Walker Black; 4 September 2024.
We believe the recognition of HyperSphere by Gartner as an Example Vendor in Composite Security and as a Sample Vendor in the AMTD solution spaces 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:
HyperSphere is Mentioned as a Sample Vendor for Automated Moving Target Defense Category by Gartner
Moreover, these baselines were peer-reviewed by the NSA.
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