Organizations are facing a perfect storm of evolving cryptographic risk: shorter certificate lifespans, expanding regulatory requirements, and the threat of quantum computing. This is forcing security leaders to come to terms with how the cryptography that underpins their entire security posture is fragmented, opaque, and difficult to govern. Now add that IT infrastructure has become even more complex with distributed environments, workloads, and AI, and you have impending security challenges.
Security leaders are now rethinking how the cryptography that underpins their entire business is discovered, managed, and modernized, including their Microsoft services for identity, device management, cloud infrastructure, and security operations.
Keyfactor has strengthened its collaboration with Microsoft to deliver a powerful, enterprise-ready solution that combines deep cryptographic intelligence with a trusted, scalable cloud platform to empower organizations to enhance their cryptographic security.
The Cryptography Visibility Gap
Organizations rely on cryptography everywhere, but often struggle to manage it. Certificates expire unexpectedly, weak or deprecated algorithms persist in production, and ownership of cryptographic assets is often unclear. Manual inventories and periodic audits cannot keep pace with the dynamic nature of modern IT environments.
Cryptographic Posture Management (CPM) has emerged to address this gap, providing continuous visibility, policy-driven governance, and actionable insight into cryptographic risk.
CPM is the ability to discover, inventory, monitor, and govern all cryptographic assets across an enterprise, benchmark them against policy and standards, and automate remediation where possible. This approach shifts cryptography from a reactive, operational burden to a proactive, risk-managed discipline.
Why Cryptographic Posture Management Matters Now
Cryptography is no longer a background technical function; it is now a board-level risk consideration for companies like HSBC. Regulatory expectations increasingly require organizations to inventory and govern cryptographic assets, while operational dependencies on machine identities continue to grow.
The Keyfactor–Microsoft solution enables organizations to:
- Reduce cryptographic risk through continuous visibility and monitoring
- Improve compliance with policy-driven governance
- Increase operational resilience as certificate lifecycles accelerate
- Build a foundation for cryptographic-agility and future cryptographic change
Microsoft: Where Cryptography Runs at Scale
Microsoft’s cloud and security ecosystem is where a significant amount of enterprise cryptography is created, consumed, and enforced at scale. Azure and Microsoft 365 are already deeply embedded into the core IT of many organizations, and manage identities, workloads, devices, and applications, each of which depends on cryptographic trust.
As a longtime partner and member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), Keyfactor integrates directly into Microsoft’s security and cloud ecosystem with connections to Azure Key Vault, Power BI, Intune, Entra, Sentinel, and more. Keyfactor solutions are available through Microsoft Marketplace and the Microsoft Security Store, enabling streamlined procurement.
Microsoft’s services provide a comprehensive source of cryptographic assets:
- Global-scale cloud infrastructure for running cryptographic services and managing hybrid environments
- Native identity and device management through platforms like Microsoft Entra and Intune, where certificates and keys are essential to Zero Trust architectures
- Integrated security operations that benefit from improved cryptographic visibility and policy enforcement across cloud and endpoint environments
Keyfactor: Purpose-Built Cryptographic Posture Management
Keyfactor’s CPM capabilities are designed to give organizations continuous, enterprise-wide visibility into cryptographic usage and risk. Rather than focusing solely on certificates, Keyfactor discovers and inventories cryptographic objects across endpoints, applications, cloud workloads, and infrastructure, creating a single source of truth.
Keyfactor’s multi-faceted approach to CPM includes:
- Comprehensive cryptographic discovery to identify certificates, keys, algorithms, and dependencies across hybrid environments
- Policy-driven governance that benchmarks cryptographic assets against internal standards and external requirements such as NIST and industry regulations
- Continuous monitoring to detect weak algorithms, misconfigurations, and compliance gaps before they lead to outages or incidents
- Cryptographic-agility and post-quantum resilience, enabling organizations to assess quantum-vulnerable assets and plan controlled transitions to new NIST PQC standards
- Certificate lifecycle automation to minimize the need for manual oversight of the processes of issuing, managing, and rotating certificates
By centralizing cryptographic intelligence, Keyfactor helps security and infrastructure teams move from reactive firefighting to strategic cryptographic management.
From Hidden Risk to Managed Trust
CPM is becoming essential for any organization that relies on digital trust at scale. By combining Keyfactor’s cryptographic solutions with Microsoft’s trusted cloud and security platforms, organizations gain a practical, scalable way to discover, govern, and modernize cryptography across their environments.
The result is not just better cryptographic management—but a measurable improvement in security posture, compliance confidence, and long-term resilience in an era of accelerating cryptographic change.
Review all the Keyfactor integrations with Microsoft solutions and AgileSec in Microsoft Marketplace. Check out Microsoft’s latest blog on cryptographic posture management.
