This paper proposes a quantum-inspired hypothesis that cybersecurity can be modeled as information persistence: the maintenance of separation between protected and adverse system states under entropy, latency, and control cost. The objective is to provide a time- and energy-aware framework for comparing security architectures without claiming that cybersecurity is literally quantum or that a universal law has been proven. We define a dimensionless Security Persistence Index, P=Δ/(E+L+S), and map controls across three temporal phases—Intent, React, and Resolve—within a 5×3 Control Lattice. The resulting Principle of Energetic Asymmetry predicts that React-dominated architectures should require greater energy, latency, and residual-entropy cost than architectures that shift control weight toward Intent and Resolve. We evaluate this prediction through a simulation of four architectures—Intent-heavy, Balanced, Misaligned, and React-heavy—using 1000 trials per condition. The expected pattern was observed: Intent-heavy achieved the highest simulated persistence, Psim=5.93, vs. 3.45 for React-heavy, and lower normalized energy cost, CPU load, false positives, latency, and residual entropy. These results provide simulation-based internal-consistency evidence only; the framework remains a hypothesis requiring hardware-level measurement, independent replication, and field validation.
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