Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for machine-to-machine communication in a Zero Trust environment. The instant invention describes a platform implementation that disables threat actors and their methods that target workload credentials. The platform is an Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) platform that creates sidecars that contain algorithms for creating secure keys from user specified dynamic elements, a machine alias ID (MAID), an encryption library, and an envoy proxy. The sidecars are utilized to control access to, and secure messaging traffic between, entities in a non-trusted environment.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for machine-to-machine communication in a Zero Trust environment, through the use of repeated, dynamic, and automated transformation and manipulation of strings of printable or typeable characters that are commonly used for passwords, PINs, keys, tokens, keys, encryption, and filenames forming a class of printable strings. The system and method described makes use of secured password “Hopping” to maximize data security and user's ease of implementation. “Hopping” refers to a method of automated random-password construction and serial substitution. The instant invention uses a protocol to create an immutable interdependence between a machine identity credential and a key credential as each is rotated from session to session.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for the repeated, dynamic, and automated transformation and manipulation of strings of printable or typeable characters that are commonly used for passwords, PINs, keys, tokens, keys, encryption, and filenames forming a class of printable strings. The system and method described makes use of secured password “Hopping” to maximize data security and user's ease of implementation. “Hopping” refers to a method of automated random-password construction and serial substitution. The process of Hopping as described herein is based upon a set of user-selected transformation rules that employ, among other variables, easily accessible, time-variable, data as sources of randomized inputs. Use of randomized inputs and automated serial substitution at time intervals heightens the security of resulting generated passwords.