An audit finding with no owner
“Which algorithms are in use, where, and who approved them?” The honest answer is a spreadsheet three people maintain, and it was wrong the day it was finished.
ANKASecure© centralizes cryptographic decisions in a three-layer policy engine — algorithm availability, key rotation and key lifecycle — defined per deployment and overridable per tenant, with 29 policy templates aligned with NIST, NSA CNSA 2.0, BSI, ANSSI, ETSI and CRYPTREC among others. Every key generation, rotation and cryptographic operation is checked against the active policy before it runs and refused with a reason when it violates it; a policy change propagates to every service instance in under a second. Authority over operations is modelled as revocable capability grants with constraint policies on a platform/tenant/operator role model. Each operation is recorded with its policy decision in a signed, tamper-evident audit trail, queryable per tenant and forwardable to a SIEM with the signature preserved, and the console computes five posture measurements from the live estate. Discovery and inventory are delivered by ANKATech channel partners.
Nobody can say which algorithms protect your data. One place can.
The decision lives in every team’s code: which cipher, which key length, which library, which mode. ANKASecure© takes that decision out of the applications, makes it once, enforces it before every operation, and keeps the evidence that it applied.
CISOHead of security architectureGRC lead
Is this you
Three ways this lands on your desk
Shadow cryptography
Every team picks its own library, parameters and key handling. The standard exists; nothing enforces it, so each release is a new place for it to drift.
A policy that lives on paper
The board adopted a cryptographic standard. No system in the estate can refuse an operation that violates it, so compliance is a matter of trust and a yearly review.
Who signs this: A CISO or head of security architecture who is accountable for a standard they cannot enforce, and a GRC lead who has to evidence it. If the answer to “which policy applied to this operation?” is a meeting, this is the conversation.
How it works
Four moves, none of them a rewrite
Applications keep referencing a key identifier and calling the same operation. ANKASecure© decides what that means, checks it, and writes down that it did.
One policy engine, three layers
Algorithm availability, key rotation and key lifecycle are three policies, defined once for the deployment and overridable per tenant. A template names the standard — NIST, NSA CNSA 2.0, BSI, ANSSI, ETSI, CRYPTREC and more — or a custom policy names your own.
Enforcement before the operation, not after
Key generation, rotation and every cryptographic operation are checked against the active policy before they run. A violation is refused with the reason, not logged and allowed. A policy change reaches every service instance in under a second.
- algorithm availability
- rotation
- lifecycle
- < 1 s propagation
Authority is explicit
Who may exercise which operation, on which keys, under which constraints, until when — ANKASecure© models that as capability grants with constraint policies, on a role model that separates platform, tenant and operator authority. A grant can be revoked without touching the data it governed.
Every decision leaves evidence
Each operation is recorded with the policy decision beside it, signed, in a tamper-evident chain. The trail is queryable per tenant and forwards to your SIEM with the signature intact, so an auditor verifies it without trusting the forwarding step.
- signed audit trail
- hash chain
- SIEM forwarding
Control means the measurement is defined
Four pillars, and each one states what it measures, what it deliberately does not, the threshold it passes at, and the action that would close it. Conformance is judged against each tenant’s own declared policy — never against an external bar — and a tenant that declares no policy is counted as unmeasured rather than quietly passed.
Fifteen minutes
What you will actually watch
Live, on a real deployment, on the kind of estate you have. Nothing in this list is a mock-up or a roadmap item.
The posture view: five measurements across the estate — agility, sovereignty, modernization, governance, conformance — computed from live keys and policies.
A tenant running on the deployment default. A standard’s template is applied to it; the change is visible on every service in under a second.
An application asks for a key the policy no longer allows. The request is refused, with the reason the auditor will want to read.
A constrained capability is granted to a counterparty, exercised once, and revoked. The data it governed is untouched.
The audit trail is queried: which policy applied to which operation, signed, in a chain that would show any edit.
Your audit finding, answered on the deployment rather than on a slide.
What it rests on
The capabilities underneath, with their state
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Three-layer policy engine
Algorithm availability, rotation and lifecycle policies; deployment-wide with per-tenant override; propagation in under a second.
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29 policy templates
29 of them algorithm-availability templates, and 24 of those tied to a named standard or jurisdiction.
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Capability grants and constraint policies
Explicit, revocable authority over cryptographic operations, on a role model that separates platform, tenant and operator.
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Signed audit trail
Tamper-evident chain with the policy decision recorded per operation; queryable per tenant; forwardable to your SIEM with the signature preserved.
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Posture measurement
Five measurements computed from the live estate in the console, with the provenance of each number.
Per channel
Discovery and inventory
What your estate uses today, delivered by ANKATech channel partners. Discovery produces visibility; the control plane produces control.
The framework
Where this sits in CAPA
The Cryptographic Control Plane reference architecture describes each pillar through the scenarios it must handle and one practical test. This solution is the governance pillar’s own definition, and it is measured against its test.
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Primary pillar
Cryptographic Governance & Compliance
Scenario realised
Enforcing a new enterprise security requirement
Practical test
“Can the organization prove, by querying the control plane, which policy applied to a given operation, and change that policy centrally?”
01
Primary pillar
Crypto-Agility
Scenario realised
Evolving cryptographic strategy without an application release
Practical test
“Can the cryptographic strategy change without requiring an application change or release?”
02
Supporting pillar
Cryptographic Sovereignty
Scenario realised
Maintaining revocable cryptographic authority over third parties
Practical test
“Can the organization govern policy across all its trust domains without moving keys, and revoke a third party’s cryptographic authority without re-encrypting the data?”
L2L3–L5
Maturity move
From a KMS and partial inventory with no policy governance to a Control Plane that enforces the standard on every governed application. Level 3 is the plane in place; levels 4 and 5 are the estate coming under it, application by application.
What this does not do
It does not inventory your estate. Finding where cryptography is used today is a discovery engagement, and ANKATech partners run it.
It does not govern cryptography that never reaches the plane. A library call inside application code that does not delegate the operation is invisible to policy until that application is brought under it.
It does not certify you. ANKASecure© maps its controls to NIST CSWP 39, the GSA PQC Buyer’s Guide and OWASP and hands you the evidence; the determination is still your auditor’s.
After this
The same installation already does these
No new deployment, no second contract for the platform. The policy engine that governs the estate is the one that migrates it and the one that governs counterparties.
Bring the audit finding.
The one nobody could answer. Fifteen minutes on a live deployment to show the policy that answers it, and the evidence behind it.
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