A map of your cryptography and a route to post-quantum readiness.
An audit-ready inventory of cryptographic assets across your files, applications, networks, and cloud environments. Continuous monitoring flags deprecated and quantum-vulnerable cryptography and prioritizes it for migration.
| Asset | Algorithm | Layer | Crypto Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| legacy-api | SHA-1 | Runtime | Obsolete Classical |
| issuing-ca-root | RSA-2048 | Identity | Quantum Unsafe |
| records-db | AES-256 | Data | Quantum Resistant |
| vpn-gateway | ML-KEM-1024 | Connectivity | Post-Quantum Ready |
The problem
Cryptography is built into almost every system you run, yet many organizations have no complete inventory of it.
Cryptography secures network traffic, protects stored data, authenticates identities, and establishes trust between systems. Yet most organizations do not know what cryptography they use, where it runs, or whether it still meets current standards. Until that inventory exists, the move to post-quantum cryptography cannot be scoped or budgeted, and a regulator’s request for proof of cryptographic posture cannot be met.
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Cryptography is everywhere
Cryptography sits across infrastructure, applications, cloud, networks, and third-party software.
02
Documentation is missing
Libraries, protocols, and algorithms often sit inside systems with little or no documentation.
03
Ownership is fragmented
Responsibility is spread across security, IT, DevOps, and suppliers.
04
Weaknesses go undetected
Expired certificates, weak algorithms, and hardcoded keys build up without triggering an alert.
05
Systems keep changing
Certificates expire, new dependencies arrive, and configurations change, so a one-off audit is out of date on delivery.
06
Algorithms are hard to change
Most systems cannot change cryptographic algorithms without downtime or redesign.
The roadmap
Five things every post-quantum migration has to deliver.
Regulators differ on dates and wording. What they ask for is broadly the same.
A current cryptographic inventory
Tool-based discovery that stays current as systems change, instead of a one-off manual audit.
A prioritized migration plan
An approved roadmap, sequenced by what the cryptography protects and how hard it will be to change.
Crypto-agility in new systems
Cryptography called through a maintained layer, so the next algorithm change is a configuration update rather than a full project.
Long-lived data migrated first
Information that must stay confidential for years moves to post-quantum algorithms first, because it can be captured today and decrypted later.
Evidence of what is in force
Assessments test what is actually deployed. A program needs a record it can hand over at any point, without assembling it first.
The solution
Your cryptographic inventory, and the reports that prove it.
Correlated inventory
See where cryptography is used
Automated discovery across systems, applications, networks, and cloud, including the obsolete algorithms, expired certificates, and unmanaged keys nobody documented.
Migration priority
Know what to migrate first
Identify critical assets requiring urgent migration, uncover weak and deprecated cryptography, and generate a Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) to support post-quantum migration planning.
Continuous compliance
Answer an audit from the live record
Continuous monitoring keeps reports current, in the formats regulators, auditors, and your board ask for. UAE requirements are covered today, and other frameworks are added as they are published.
What it finds
Cryptographic discovery goes well beyond certificates.
Four layers, one inventory
Each layer is scanned by sensors built for it: application code for hardcoded algorithms, network traffic for cipher suites negotiated during TLS handshakes, cloud key management services for stored keys, and compiled binaries for embedded libraries, even when you have no source. The results are combined into a single inventory.
When the same cryptographic asset is detected in more than one place, it’s recorded once, with each location listed as a source. For example, a library found in a build artifact, a container image, and a running process appears as one entry with three sources.
RSA-1024SHA-13DESRSA-2048X25519 + ML-KEM-1024nonev2.1270noIdentity teamData platform18 assets270CBOMyes34 assets7 dependenciespayments, VPN
Dependencies
Dependency mapping reveals the impact of change.
Cryptographic assets are interconnected across applications, devices, services, and data stores. A certificate, key, or algorithm may support multiple business-critical systems. The tool maps these relationships automatically, helping teams understand what is affected by a planned change before taking action.
Coverage Model
Know how every finding was discovered.
The Cryptographic Discovery Tool combines purpose-built discovery sensors with telemetry from the security and key-management tools already in your environment. Each source has a defined coverage model, so you know where findings came from and where deeper inspection is required.
Method 01
Direct inspection
Sensors read the system under inspection: host, filesystem, application runtime, network traffic, HSM and KMIP infrastructure, and compiled binaries. Each sensor is purpose-built for one discovery domain.
Coverage Model
What the sensor can read on the system it runs against.
Method 02
Integration-based discovery
Cryptographic telemetry ingested and normalized from the security, cloud, and key-management platforms already in your environment, extending reach into places a sensor is not deployed.
Coverage Model
What the source platform exposes through its API or telemetry.
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Sensor types
Each purpose-built for one discovery domain, with new types added on a regular cycle.
10
Direct inspection
Reading the operating system, filesystem, runtime, network, cryptographic module, or binary.
7
Run on the asset itself
With direct access to the system under inspection.
Every sensor is classified by execution mode, access method, and coverage model. The full classification for all 23 types is in the product sheet.
Together they produce one inventory, covering assets neither method reaches alone. Findings then export into the security operations, workflow, and key management tools your teams already run.
PKI and certificates
Reads existing CAs
HSM and key management
PKCS#11 · KMIP
Cloud key stores
AWS KMS · Azure Key Vault · Google Cloud KMS
Security and risk tools
Defender · Qualys · CipherTrust · CrowdStrike
SIEM and SOC
Findings pushed to existing workflows
Export
REST API · event export
Reports and dashboards
Cryptographic risk reporting,
from asset detail to board summary.
One record, read at whatever depth the reader needs. An analyst opens an individual asset; an executive sees the score and the trend.
What the record produces
Queryable · API
Cryptographic inventory
Every asset, algorithm, key length, expiry, dependency, and owner, in one searchable record.
Exportable
CBOM
A cryptographic bill of materials, exportable for third-party review.
CRAD10001
Prioritized roadmap
The order to migrate in, with the reasoning attached to each decision.
CRAD50002 · NCSI
Compliance evidence
Posture against national cryptographic requirements, in a form the regulator can read directly.
The CBOM in detail
Built to a standard, ready to share.
The Cryptographic Bill of Materials is generated from your live inventory in an open, machine-readable format. Third parties can review it automatically, compare it over time, and validate it for completeness, with no access to your systems required.
Sovereignty
A complete list of your weak cryptography is the most useful document an attacker could hold.
Every discovery tool produces one. It names your deprecated algorithms, your expired certificates, your unmanaged keys, and the systems that depend on each of them. In the wrong hands, it is a map of where to attack, so whoever holds a copy matters.
The tool runs inside your perimeter, on your infrastructure, under your access controls. Nothing is sent to QuantumGate. Evidence reaches the Migration and Compliance Platform only when you publish it, and you decide what it contains.
Deep discovery without exporting the map
No vendor-hosted copy
Scan code, runtime, network, cloud and endpoints for every algorithm, certificate and key in use.
Air-gapped where required
No outbound path or call-home dependency.
Read-only discovery
No decryption, key extraction, or writes to scanned systems.
Why this tool
Deployable in any environment,
sovereign wherever it runs.
Frameworks differ on dates and wording, and ask for broadly the same things: a cryptographic inventory, a migration plan built from it, evidence of what is in force, and the ability to change algorithms again. Discovery produces the inventory the other three are built on. These are the reasons an organization chooses this tool for that work, whether the requirement comes from the UAE Cyber Security Council or from a framework in Europe, the United Kingdom, or the United States.
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