Your IT estate is a vendor bazaar; your trust posture should be a cathedral.
Cryptography powers encryption; encryption powers access and entitlement; access and entitlement powers information and value exchanges; information and value exchanges power income statements, balance sheets, costs of capital, supply chain risks and enterprise valuations. (It also affects insurance cover, M+A etc. but we should stop somewhere…) AI follows the same basic trajectory and accesses the same environments the old cryptography does.
And all of this certainly affects the trust and confidence customers, partners and suppliers have in doing business and committing to an enterprise.
We are migrating from a low probability/high impact vector event to a high probability/high impact scalar event.
Quantum threatens the maths that have provided core security for decades, and AI threatens the software and implementation techniques that enable them. Multiple and emerging factors converge on the enterprise, making today's suite of security models and tools inadequate and unprepared for the acceleration of conjoined opportunity and risk that arises from new compute and intelligences.
None of this is new – it's been known for some time.
What is material now is that the time for the enterprise to address all this is rapidly shrinking, and other factors like geo-politics, a legacy mindset of relying on vendors to embed use case specific security, and a suite of new quantum-safe cryptographies all trouble the choices to be made. But the first choice for the enterprise must be an acceptance of the fact that it is the underwriter to its stakeholders of how these choices compound into a resilient and agile trust posture for the operations that protect the sovereignty of the enterprise. It is not a winning strategy to say that you decided to wait for the market to address this. The enterprise suffers the primary loss, not the vendors.
The enterprise should drive towards a solution set that puts it and its stakeholders in actual control over a portfolio of vendors whose security practices transmit risk.
Every bridge is designed with safety and security as its foremost priorities. An enterprise also needs a bridging architecture for its digital trust capacities that safeguards operations today, tomorrow and as threats evolve.
Our priors are ones of decades of operational accountability in cryptographically dominated environments. We know current state, which positions us to help migrate to future state, informing our choice of architecture, features and outcomes that put the enterprise in overall operational control of the infrastructure that provides real time enforceable policy and compliance.
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Replacing in whole or in part today's IT estate to uplift its trust components will create new risks and delays. The time and cost to do so crowds out the innovation, resources and speeds needed for the enterprise to remain competitive and provide new value to customers. This approach will be expensive and slow, will risk operational disruptions and likely alter the 'like for like' experiences of enterprise customers. Adding lengthy fiscal, operational and HR burdens to wind up with the same business applications delivering old values requires strategic consideration.
In IT, selecting new and superior architectures that future proof operations has always been a reliable and sound path forward. A target pareto for the enterprise might be 80% to new opportunities and 20% to create a more secure and agile trust bridge for all digital values to cross. To achieve this, the architecture must bridge the new and the old, align with vendor roadmaps while providing new visibilities and controls. By choosing architecture that places the run-time interests of the enterprise first, an enhanced ability to better address accountabilities will enhance trust and confidence (and with immutable logs!).
Today we release 6 summary product sheets outlining aspects of our platform and its utilities to the enterprise. Find them here.
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