DTM™

Executive Brief
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DTM Program — Executive 2-Pager

January 15, 2024
Dr. Todd M. Price & Price-Oquindo
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Attribution: DTM (Dynamic Threat Mitigation) designed by Dr. Todd M. Price. CART (Continuous Automated Red-Teaming) and PQE (Post-Quantum Engineering) built into the SaaS platform by Price-Oquindo.

1) Summary

Aegis is operationalizing a Dynamic Threat Mitigation (DTM) program that continuously senses adversarial pressure and adapts defenses across our SaaS platform. We pair Continuous Automated Red-Teaming (CART) with Post-Quantum Engineering (PQE) to validate controls under real kill chains while migrating to crypto-agile, PQC-ready trust. DTM is the control plane that ingests signals, makes risk-aware decisions, and enforces policy.

2) Problem
  • Attack surfaces change daily; point-in-time tests miss drift.
  • Long-lived data and trust anchors face quantum-era risks.
  • Legacy stacks lack crypto-agility and explainable rollout governance.
3) Solution (DTM + CART + PQE)
  • DTM
    Price: Threat-centric decision and enforcement plane; evidence-backed policy.
  • CART
    Price-Oquindo: Always-on automated adversary simulations; promotion gates and rollback triggers.
  • PQE
    Price-Oquindo: SaaS-native crypto-agility with hybrid PQC modes, interoperability playbooks, and measurable SLOs.
4) 90/180/365-Day Milestones

0–90 Days
Discover, Instrument, Baseline

  • Stand up crypto discovery + CART harness; map attack paths → critical assets.
  • Define target policies (PQC algorithms, hybrid modes, guardrail thresholds).
  • Pilot CART gates on top 20 services; publish evidence dashboards.

91–180 Days
Hybridize, Harden, Validate

  • Enable hybrid PQC in gateways/mesh for prioritized flows.
  • Expand CART coverage; make promotions contingent on CART pass criteria.
  • Interop test matrix across partners; publish latency/CPU SLOs.

181–365 Days
Scale, Certify, Enforce

  • CI/CD canaries and enforced deprecation windows for classical-only paths.
  • Supplier intake requires PQC readiness; external attestations prepared.
5) KPIs / SLOs
  • Coverage: % services under CART; % traffic under crypto-agile control.
  • Risk: Mean exception age; # high-risk classical dependencies.
  • Performance: Δ handshake latency; CPU overhead within SLO.
  • Interop: Hybrid negotiation success rate; partner test pass rate.
  • Governance: Evidence completeness; approval lead time; rollback MTTR.
6) Risks & Mitigations
RiskMitigation
Interop failuresHybrid modes, canary lanes, negotiated fallbacks.
Performance regressionsPerformance SLOs, capacity buffers, targeted optimizations.
Vendor lagContractual PQC SLAs, wrappers, alternate providers.
Shadow crypto usageNetwork sampling, SBOMs, CA logs, developer education.
7) Investment & Asks
  • Approve 0–90 plan; fund interop lab + performance harness; assign service owners; set org-wide deprecation windows.
Acronym Glossary
CART
Continuous Automated Red-Teaming — always-on adversary simulations that validate security controls and promote releases only when threats are successfully mitigated.
DTM
Dynamic Threat Mitigation — the threat-centric decision and enforcement plane that ingests security signals, makes risk-aware decisions, and enforces policy across the platform.
PQE
Post-Quantum Engineering — SaaS-native cryptographic agility with hybrid post-quantum cryptography modes, interoperability playbooks, and measurable SLOs to prepare for quantum-era threats.
PQC
Post-Quantum Cryptography — cryptographic algorithms designed to resist attacks from quantum computers.
SLO
Service Level Objective — measurable performance and reliability targets for system components and deployment processes.
SBOM
Software Bill of Materials — a complete inventory of software components, dependencies, and their cryptographic properties.
MTTR
Mean Time To Recovery — average time required to roll back or recover from a failed deployment or security incident.
CI/CD
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment — automated pipeline that tests and deploys code changes with quality gates and security validation.

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