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Capability

Build practical cryptographic competence — and prepare for controlled change.

Learn algorithms, PKI, key lifecycles, hardware security module interfaces, secure protocols, crypto inventory, migration planning and post-quantum experimentation in isolated laboratories.

CLIP · Crypto inventory and migration

Illustrative view
  • Algorithms in use9 profiles · 2 flagged for migration
  • Certificates48 tracked · 5 expiring in 30 days
  • Migration planDrafted · rollback defined
  • Post-quantum profileExperimental · training only
  • VerificationInteroperability tests passed

Illustrative inventory. Counts and profiles are synthetic.

Training profiles are not production approvals

Experimental post-quantum training profiles are not automatically approved for production use.

Mission problems

What this capability addresses.

  • Cryptographic dependencies are undocumented and therefore unmigratable
  • Key lifecycle practice is theoretical until something goes wrong
  • Protocol and implementation weaknesses are hard to demonstrate safely
  • Migration planning lacks a practised, rehearsed procedure
  • Post-quantum readiness is discussed without hands-on evaluation

Capability modules

What is included.

Modules are composable. A pathway combines the ones a role actually needs.

  • Symmetric and asymmetric fundamentals
  • Public key infrastructure and certificate lifecycle
  • Key generation, storage, rotation, revocation and destruction
  • Software and simulated hardware security-module workflows
  • Protocol and implementation testing
  • Algorithm and dependency inventory
  • Crypto-agility migration exercises
  • Post-quantum cryptography experiments

End-to-end workflow

How the work flows.

  1. 01Discover
  2. 02Classify
  3. 03Assess
  4. 04Plan
  5. 05Migrate
  6. 06Verify
  7. 07Monitor

In sequence: Cryptographic assets are discovered and classified, their risk assessed, a migration planned and executed in a contained environment, the result verified, then monitored for drift.

Representative scenario

One scenario, end to end.

A team inventories the algorithms, keys, certificates and protocol dependencies of a synthetic estate, plans a migration to a stronger profile, executes it in an isolated laboratory and verifies that dependent services still interoperate.

Evidence produced

  • Cryptographic inventory with dependency mapping
  • Migration plan with rollback procedure
  • Verification that dependent services interoperate
  • Key lifecycle actions with authorisation records

Evidence and metrics

What you can measure.

These are the operational measures the platform produces. Baselines and targets are set with each organization during a pilot rather than claimed in advance.

  • Inventory completeness across the estate
  • Migration rehearsal success and rollback time
  • Protocol conformance test results

Safety and trust

Platform key material is never exposed to learners.

  • Private keys and secrets used by platform control services are isolated from scenario workloads

  • Laboratory key material is generated per exercise and destroyed with the environment

  • Cryptographic modules and algorithms are replaceable through configuration and versioned policy

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See this capability against your mission.

We will tailor the demonstration around your priority use case and operating constraints.

Cryptography & Crypto-Agility | CLIP