Enterprise PKI should be regarded as a critical asset – worthy of focused attention and appropriate resource allocation.

It should serve as a business enabler, with automation marking the final step in your digital transformation journey.

Unfortunately, this critical layer is often misunderstood, misconfigured, and significantly underutilized.

Beyond centralizing enterprise keys, this layer plays a vital role in crypto agility by managing the full lifecycle of all active cryptographic keys.

This layer is responsible for managing Tokenization, which requires a Vault and Secrets management solution.

When implemented correctly, the Crypto Framework delivers measurable value and strengthens security. However, poor implementation can lead to inefficiencies and increased security-related costs.

The Crypto Framework provides two main supporting solutions in the drive to a simplified identity and access management, by trusting no one.

While most enterprises have one or more IAM as well as CIAM solutions, we promote Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) through Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) making better use of your PKI as well as introducing FIDO2 for customers.

Second, we support a simplified view of an identity and access management platform by trusting no one and treating all identites the same, using a data user and non-data user approach.

Data protection is at the heart of compliance and ensuring privacy. Options abound for field, database, file, folder and disk protection.

The key differentiator of product capabilities lies in its ecosystem and integration. This makes forward-thinking design and future scalability essential factors in decision-making.

The signing layer, which ensures non-repudiation, is one of the most underutilized components in the enterprise stack – largely due to a widespread misunderstanding of the role of enterprise PKI and its trust-enabling function at Layer 2.

With a secure PKI providing business enablement including signing certificates, the sky is the limit including non-repudiation of transactions, documents and code.

While data governance makes use of other areas within the Crypto Framework, ensuring the right Identity can not only access the right information (access control) as well as prevent others, including administrators, from seeing the information (Privacy), ensuring data integrity (non-repudiation), layer 7 focuses on the governance of data use.

This includes data access management (DAM) of structured data as well as file activity monitoring (FAM) and Data risk intelligence (DRI).

The Crypto Framework being cryptographic is all about generating, managing and storing keys and certificates, while the broader topic being a bill of materials, takes into account, applications, libraries and protocols that use keys and certificates.

The Crypto Center of Excellence serves as the authoritative body for the proper implementation and management of cryptographic keys and certificates, guiding the enterprise on all aspects of cryptography.

Its role is increasingly vital as organizations rely more heavily on cryptographic solutions to ensure long-term sustainability in a world marked by growing distrust and rising threats such as ransomware, cyberattacks, and emerging Quantum risks.

Not as much as you think 😉 but while most are concerned with the initial cost, the focus should be on value which is easily returned in security spend consolidation and increased security posture for future threats such as Quantum.

Unfortunately, not. This is a proprietary Crypto Framework developed by SmartCrypto over many years of industry experience in solving customer problems with Cryptographic solutions. Due to the world becoming less trusting, customers are turning to cryptography, with its ultimate security architecture that verifies everything.