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Hypersurface

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The Purpose of the Hypersurface Is to Keep Expanding: The Non-Human Identity Explosion

Dropbox was recently hacked and non-human identities were involved. How cyberpunk! Identity in the cloud is extremely complex and can only be managed by modelling with tools. This complexity has contributed to the continued growth of the attack hypersurface.

More on the Attack Hypersurface. Cloud Estates Can Only Be Understood With Modelling. And Just Look at All the SKUs.

In a previous article I started to discuss the idea of how infrastructure technology has evolved into having an "attack hypersurface," not just a normal sized, regular old attack surface, but something more than that...something almost unknowable.

The Cybersecurity Attack Surface Is Getting Bigger and Bigger. We’ve Been Going Through a Mega-Evolution. It’s a Hypersurface Now.

We've invented and evolved thousands of computational thingamawhatsits to deploy applications with, and combined them in billions of permutations...then we need to build the cybersecurity around them. It's worth it to take a moment, step back, and ponder that.