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The Disappearing Attack Surface: How Runtime Microsharding™ Stops Threats Before They Start

The static attack surface is a liability.
Runtime Microsharding™ animates and fragments your application layer attack surface, making it ephemeral, unmapable, and unreachable—by attackers—by design.

86% of breaches involve stolen or misused credentials. — Verizon DBIR, 2024

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68% of attackers begin with automated reconnaissance to map APIs and exposed services. — MITRE Adversary Insights, 2023

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The average enterprise exposes 1,200+ workload endpoints—each a potential entry point attackers can exploit. — Palo Alto Unit 42, 2024

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Static Defenses Fail; Runtime Microsharding™ Doesn’t

The Recon Problem

Attackers don’t attack blindly—they map you first. Every exposed workload, API, and endpoint gives adversaries the visibility they need to stage attacks.

Hopr's Solution

Runtime Microsharding™ makes a workload's access point visible to trusted workloads only. All untrusted access attempts cause the workload to immediately disappear when a threat 'touches' it. It's as if the workload was never there. The endpoint can’t be probed or fingerprinted.

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The Credential Problem

Static credentials are gold to attackers. Once they’re harvested, they enable lateral movement, persistence, and privilege escalation.

Hopr's Solution

Runtime Microsharding™ uses dynamic, single-use credentials for each small shard of the attack surface. Each shard is protected by Cloud Native AMTD. Access secrets self-destruct, identities shift, and stolen credentials are worthless.

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The Persistence Problem

The longer an attack surface is static, the more exposed and vulnerable it becomes. Firewalls and segmentation don’t stop time—they leave attack surfaces visible and static.

Hopr's Solution

To the threat, Runtime Microsharding™ continuously re-forms the attack surface. Microshards are visible to attackers only momentarily, they appear for trusted workloads and vanish after use—denying attackers time to act.

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Ready to make your attack surface disappear?

Download our White Paper on Runtime Microsharding™ and learn how Cloud Native AMTD animates the attack surface to disrupt threats.
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Valuable Benefits

Lower cyber risk
An unpredictable attack surface disrupts threat attack planning.
True Zero Trust
Only workloads with verified identity trust get predictable access.
Fast time-to-value
Onboarding of an average-skilled DevOps for easy configuration and deployment of Hopr solutions can be achieved in just a few days.
Lower costs
Usage-based pricing, lower architectural overhead, and the elimination of multiple centralized cloud services reduces costs.
Simple deployment
Configuration of a DevOps YAML file in automated CD production is all that is needed.
No code changes
Modification of existing services, application, and API endpoint code is not needed.

Compelling Advantages

TRULY EPHEMERAL: Microshards exist only when needed—vanish when not.
Competing solutions keep services online but “watched,” leaving them visible and targetable.
CLOUD NATIVE: Works alongside your containerized apps and multi-cloud clusters.
Other solutions are tied to network paths or endpoint deception—they are blind to workload behavior.
ZERO TRUST AT RUNTIME: Trust is enforced at every transaction, not just at login.
Traditional ZTNA and CNAPP platforms assume trust is static between scans or policies.
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Gartner, Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2023 Franz Hinner, Satarupa Patnaik, Eric Grenier, Nikul Patel, et al.., 1 August 2023. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Hopr.co delivers Zero Trust, cloud-native, multi-cloud infrastructure purpose-built to protect high-value applications, APIs, and data across clusters, clouds, and organizations.

Hopr's Cloud Native Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) produces Runtime Microsharding™, a novel technique that shrinks and animates the attack surface—breaking it into very small, short-lived pieces (microshards)—to disrupt 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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