Your AI Advantage
Is Also Your Greatest Risk

An illustrative case study of how NeuroFlux Systems safeguarded their AI systems with Hopr's Enterprise Ultra platform.

Enterprise Ultra is an infrastructure platform that achieves a strategic upgrade for static security architectures.

Ultra deploys WoSPs across the enterprise application layer, with AMTD and Runtime Microsharding™ protecting all workloads across cloud environments and organizational domains.

CASE STUDY:
Safeguarding AI Algorithms and IP

In 2024, AI innovators like NeuroFlux Systems face threats that steal credentials for workloads and services, and aren't able to verify workload identity trust across cloud boundaries or with third-parties.

API Credential Theft
76% of NeuroFlux Systems' AI workloads were accessible via static or long-lived credentials, creating a high theft risk for their proprietary algorithms.
Session Hijacking
A security audit found that 80% of the traffic across NeroFlux AI systems was exposed at some point in the TLS/mTLS chain — often at the load balancer or API gateway.
Third Party Access
NeuroFlux Systems relied on data from various third parties, but they were unable to verify workload identity trust across cloud boundaries or with their third-party partners.

Hopr's Enterprise Ultra enables NeuroFlux Systems to safeguard its AI systems, algorithms, and highly sensitive data.

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Cloud Native AMTD
Workloads performing sensitive AI services for financial modeling are protected from untrusted or malicious access. Untrusted access attempts are immediately discovered and rejected.
Ephemeral Credentials
Access credentials to AI workloads requires ephemeral credentials that can only be known by other trusted AI workloads. Threats can't find and re-use credentials — they’re obsolete when the session closes.
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Seamless Networking
AI systems are able to connect to third parties and only share data after identity trust verification. Realtime, at-scale, and seamless connectivity among AI workloads — even with third parties — meets Zero Trust.

Agentic AI Financial Modeling

Real-time AI processing and accurate financial modeling are vital to NeroFlux Systems and its customers. NeuroFlux uses conventional security practices such as TLS encryption, PKI identity certs, and authorization and token authentication.

But without identity trust verification, dynamic access credentials, and AMTD access control valuable AI IP is in jeopardy.
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Initial API Data Exchange

NeuroFlux deploys its AI code and models across AWS, GCP, and on-premise GPU clusters. AI agents repeatedly modeling dynamic financial data communicate via APIs using mTLS .
But the end-to-end encryption breaks at ingress controllers and service mesh proxies, and data is exposed.

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Third Party Authentication

Third-party workloads provide financial data to NeuroFlux Systems API endpoints using static API keys to authenticate. Keys are rotated every 12–24 hours using cloud-native tools like AWS Secrets Manager. But injecting the rotated keys into the authenticating endpoint exposes them to theft.

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NeuroFlux AI Processing

The NeuroFlux Systems AI workloads receive the third-party financial data, process it, and provide forecasts to NeuroFlux System's financial trading customers.
But trust with third party workloads is implicit — based on cloud IAM roles and PKI certs.

Benefits for AI Enterprises

Exfiltrated API credentials 

Eliminate Cyber Risk. Enterprise Ultra keeps sensitive AI data confidential and tamper-proof and its Runtime Microsharding and AMTD ensures complete Attack Surface Management and AI Threat Protection.
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Exfiltrated API credentials 

Enforce Zero Trust by Default. Each API data transaction includes realtime identity trust verification and dynamic access credentials to ensure a high level of trust before data is shared.
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Exfiltrated API credentials 

Stronger Security Posture. Prevent credential theft and abuse with hopping credentials that make it nearly impossible for attackers to discover or exploit workload access and API endpoints.
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Improved Compliance. Simple automation with built-in audit logs and immediate threat detection and rejection help meet PCI DSS requirements.
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AI Safeguarding and Assurance

NeuroFlux's Solution — Enterprise Ultra

NeuroFlux Systems is a fast-growing AI startup developing proprietary machine learning agents for real-time financial forecasting and autonomous trading. Their business relies on the integrity of real-time data feeds from third party commodity exchanges. They deployed Enterprise Ultra with their AI microservices in distributed environments. They also worked with their third party data providers to ensure Korvette-SE WoSPs were deployed with third party edge workloads.

Enterprise Ultra

Designed for the Zero Trust era, microsharded ephemeral attack surface, and secure and trusted internal and edge API transactions.

Traditional API Protection

NeuroFlux Systems' proprietary AI workloads could not trust the identities of third party workloads providing data or receiving automated trading orders.

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Designed for Zero Trust.
Ready for the Future.

Whether you’re connecting sensitive AI systems to realtime data feeds or automating processes base on AI decisions, Hopr's Enterprise Ultra platform delivers secure, Zero Trust, and future proof AI threat protection.
Assure trusted access to your AI workloads and data.
Shrink and animate your attack surface.
Assure trust in AI systems.
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Hopr's Cloud Native Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) frequently hops workload access credentials and produces Runtime Microsharding™, a novel technique that shrinks and animates the attack surface—breaking it into very small, short-lived pieces (microshards)—that disrupt threat reconnaissance, block lateral movement, and render credential theft ineffective.

Hopr’s Workload Security Proxy (WoSP)—a lightweight, drop-in proxy—enforces Zero Trust at every transaction, and rejects all untrusted attempts to access a trusted workload.
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