The Complexity Tax for Platform Engineers and DevOps

Platform Engineers and DevOps teams are struggling with the 'service mesh' model because of massive overhead, extreme complexity, and a steep learning curve. The articles proposes a lightweight, simpler, and more integrated decentralized solution to the problem that is currently their biggest headache. They don't need the complexity of a full-blown service mesh to secure east-west traffic. The Hopr WoSP delivers the same workload-to-workload authorization without the YAML hell, and without the massive operational overhead.

Tom McNamara

October 30, 2025

Beyond the Locked Front Door - ZTNA

Industry data shows that the vast majority of breaches occur on "trusted" and "allowed" connections. Is your ZTNA solution just a locked front door, leaving all the internal doors wide open for attackers to roam freely? The "allow and ignore" model of ZTNA 1.0 is a recipe for disaster. It's time to move beyond session-based trust. Learn about "Zero Trust by the Transaction"—a new paradigm that continuously verifies trust for every single API call and workload interaction, stopping lateral movement and insider threats cold.

Tom McNamara

September 2, 2025

Runtime Microsharding Shrinks the Enterprise Attack Surface

Enterprises a challenged to defend their ever-growing attack surface. Complexity, Zero Days, and static network configurations make a target rich environment for increasingly sophisticated threats. Conventional defenses seem to have reached a ceiling of effectiveness. But a new Cloud Native AMTD is an active cyber defense that microshards the attack surface in to many small pieces and animates them so that attackers are confused in targeting application workloads.

Tom McNamara

July 16, 2025

What Does Hopr Replace In An Enterprise Security Architecture?

Innovative solutions can often challenge conventional thinking. Conventional cyber defenses such as API Security, Firewalls, Gateways, and others exist to filter out "bad stuff" before it reaches the digital engine of your business - your application workloads and data. This article helps CISOs understand the value of the WoSP through the analogy of an automobile engine with three conventional filters.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

AI and the Crisis of Machine Credentials (and How to Avoid It)

Machines [also known as Non-Human Identities (NHI)] that operate within and across enterprises is exploding. Led by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, these machines represent a significant risk to enterprises. The combination of static secrets, ungoverned NHIs, and autonomous AI agents is creating a perfect storm of complexity, risk, and visibility gaps. Organizations that wait for a breach before acting will find themselves overwhelmed. But those who act now — embracing ephemeral credentials, zero-trust principles, and machine-native identity security — will emerge stronger, more resilient, and future-ready.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

Proxies in the Cloud: Managing Traffic and Securing A Digital World

Proxies are common software designs that are widely used to abstract repetitive code and simplify a software architecture or code development. While they come in different types and are used for different purposes, the use of proxies for communications management is common, but many people may not know that security functions can also be proxied. In this article, I explain a novel and powerful new proxy – a Workload Security Proxy – that decentralizes access credential management to dramatically improve security and shrink the attack surface of digital enterprises.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

AMTD and Zero Trust in a Single Solution: The WoSP

Enterprise CISOs are challenged to find cost savings without compromising security. As cyber threat sophistication increases and overcomes conventional defenses, Zero Trust becomes an important cosideration for security architectures and compliance. A new option has arrived that combines AMTD with Zero Trust principles to deliver stronger security and cost savings for CISOs.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

Redefining Multi-Cloud Application Networking with a Workload Security Proxy

Most enterprises operate with applications in different cloud environments and may even be part of a digital ecosystem that shares application data with third party organizations. But conventional credential management make this a complicated and vulnerable task. Hopr.co's Workload Security Proxy is a solution that simplifies and secures multi-cloud application networks.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

Reversing A Rising Tide - API Data Losses

The last three years have shown a clear trend toward larger, more frequent, and more sophisticated M2M API-based attacks, particularly in cloud and multi-cloud environments. Compromised API keys have played a critical role in these attacks, enabling attackers to target data in transit and escalate privileges across complex infrastructures. Despite the increasing number of API security solutions, protecting machine-to-machine APIs and data remains a significant challenge, especially as threats grow larger, more frequent, and more sophisticated. A compelling alternative to conventional API security solutions exists and it is a dynamic, decentralized approach to API Threat Protection and workload Access Control.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

Why TLS 1.3 and Automated PKI Fall Short of Zero Trust Principles

Enterprises running sensitive business operations in the cloud confront difficult security and privacy challenges. One of them is data loss prevention. While it's true that cloud providers do offer experienced security professionals and tools, it is not true that cybersecurity will be stronger. This article explains some of the reasons why CISOs and security professionals need to take a close look at their application networks and cloud infrastructure. The good news is that innovative solutions to overcome the vulnerabilities and gaps exist and are easy to adopt and implement.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

Machine Identity - Avoid the Crisis

Machines operating across the Internet outnumber humans by a ratio of three-to-one. This will rise dramatically as more Internet of Things (IOT) devices arrive. Existing approaches for managing identity and trust for a massive number of machines rely on centralized and legacy solutions that won't work for the machine era. A decentralized solution capable of speed, trust, and agility is needed to avoid a crisis and enable a graceful transition to high trust machine identities.

Tom McNamara

June 5, 2025

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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) 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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