Enterprises have traditionally embedded cryptographic choices deep within applications and hardware appliances.

When vulnerabilities surface, whether due to newly discovered flaws in an algorithm or accelerated advances in attack capabilities, the remediation process is slow and fraught with operational risk. Companies often accept this risk because they have limited means to understand where the vulnerabilities are and how to remediate them. It’s like having a modern vehicle that can’t be upgraded with new software.

Now, in the era of hyperconnectivity, where data traverses a complex network of public clouds, private clouds, edge nodes and user devices, enterprises face an increasingly urgent imperative: They must evolve their cryptographic posture from rigid, monolithic schemes toward a dynamic, policy-driven model.