Chances are, you\u2019ve never heard of Multi-dimensional Result Factoring (MRF). That\u2019s because it\u2019s brand-new technology in data protection. Until it was invented by Anonomatic, every form of data protection \u2014including all legacy technologies such as encryption\u2014was Single-dimensional Result Factoring (SRF).<\/p>\n
The fundamental difference between SRF and MRF is that, with SRF-protected data, an attacker is immediately informed whether their attempt has succeeded or failed. Consider any effort to access encrypted data: if the correct cipher and key are used, the data is mathematically transformed and becomes fully readable. But if any variable is incorrect, the attempt fails and the data remains encrypted. When this happens\u2014say, you’re trying to open an encrypted spreadsheet\u2014you might check your caps lock and try again. However, when an attacker is attempting to harvest large volumes of data using massively powerful systems, this immediate feedback on failure tells them to keep going.<\/p>\n
With MRF-protected data, an attacker is provided with no indication that their attack succeeded for failed. Attempts to read MRF-protected data will always return results. Is the correct value 2,453 or 4,512 or even ‘giraffe’? It is up to the requestor to know if the results they received are correct and the only way they will know that is knowing that they provided the right keys. As you can imagine, that makes their job exponentially harder and other organizations which are using SRF protection, much easier targets.<\/p>\n
How does MRF help protect against the threat of quantum computers? In short, MRF is not based on cryptography. “Very hard math”\u2014and quantum computers\u2019 ability to solve it\u2014simply doesn\u2019t come into play. For more details, see our white paper.<\/p>\n
If one of your biggest concerns is susceptibility to Coinbase-type breaches\u2014where compromised credentials allowed attackers to harvest all your data assets (and it should be)\u2014MRF can protect you from that as well.<\/p>\n
Finally, MRF is available today and runs on standard hardware. Deploy it on-premises, in your VPC, or anywhere you run containers\u2014only from Anonomatic.<\/p>\n