Today, we’re unveiling a refreshed identity. One that reflects our evolution from a PKI company to the foundational infrastructure of digital trust.
Keyfactor started back in 2001 as a small consulting shop in Cleveland, Ohio. In those early days, we helped some of the world’s largest organizations stand up the public key infrastructure (PKI) their business depended on to run securely.
That was a different time. Our platform has grown, our customer base has grown, and the world we operate in looks nothing like it did then.
It’s time for our brand to reflect that growth.
A new era: PKI to Trust Infrastructure
For years, our roots have been in PKI. It’s the critical infrastructure that secures the internet and every machine-to-machine connection. But there’s a bigger, broader world of cryptographic infrastructure out there that most organizations have largely ignored for decades.
It’s not a knock on security teams. They could get away with a little complacency because the underlying foundations of cryptography (algorithms like RSA and ECC) have been reliable for decades. So reliable, they didn’t have to think much about it. Teams could set it and forget it, only revisiting it if something broke.
The result: environments where cryptography is everywhere, but documented almost nowhere. We call this “cryptographic debt”, and it’s left a serious gap in enterprise security. It’s arguably the largest unmanaged risk surface in organizations today.
This is Trust Infrastructure, the cryptographic identities, assets, and systems that quietly encrypt your data, authenticate every machine-to-machine interaction, and verify the authenticity and integrity of code and applications. It can no longer be ignored. It must be actively observed, orchestrated, and governed.
A new world: AI, Automation & Quantum
Several forces are at play, disrupting a once-reliable, static foundation of trust.
AI is expanding the surface area of cryptographic identities. As teams quickly realize the pitfalls of API keys and static credentials, the shift toward verifiable identities is underway, and it’s demanding identities on a scale we’ve never seen before.
At the same time, the most critical identities, the ones that protect public-facing apps and websites, now have to be rotated every few weeks instead of once a year. Manual processes are already failing. This change pushes them to a breaking point.
And the cryptographic foundations are shifting beneath our feet. The keys, algorithms, protocols, and libraries that underpin everything must change as today’s encryption standards are rendered unsafe by quantum computing.
A new platform: The Trust Control Plane
In 2025, we acquired InfoSec Global and CipherInsights, expanding our capabilities to cryptographic posture management, an emerging technology that enables teams to discover and remediate cryptographic vulnerabilities.
By bringing together cryptographic posture management (CPM), PKI and signing, AI and workload identity, certificate lifecycle automation, and a growing ecosystem of integrated infrastructure, we’re building a unified system of control. We call it the Trust Control Plane, and it enables our customers to see, secure, and orchestrate this critical layer in their cyberdefenses—trust infrastructure.
We take that responsibility seriously, and our new brand identity reflects this. We’re sharpening our platform, positioning, and visuals to align with where we’re headed.
A new chapter for Keyfactor
This isn’t about overhauling our core identity; it’s a natural evolution in our story, a shift in perspective.
Cryptography isn’t a commodity. It’s critical infrastructure that, quite literally, keeps the world connected and businesses running. When it works, everything flows. When it breaks, the consequences are real.
Outages ground planes, take down global payment systems, and disrupt critical systems. Hackers impersonate trusted software, intercept network traffic, expose sensitive data, and infiltrate environments using stolen keys.
These are serious challenges that we solve with our customers every day.
What’s next
We’re shining a light on the infrastructure that’s been there all along, hidden beneath the surface. This is the next frontier for cybersecurity. To the engineers, architects, and leaders who defend trust in your organization, it’s time to look at the foundation.
We’re committed to working alongside our customers to take on this challenge: to ensure that every digital interaction is trusted, reliable, and quantum-safe. We’re genuinely excited about this next chapter and for everything still left to solve.
Welcome to the new era of digital trust.
