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CRYPTOGRAPHIC GOVERNACE AND LIFECYCLE AUTOMATION FOR HYBRID ESTATES 

 CrystalKey 360 helps regulated organizations centralize control over cryptography without replacing the infrastructure already in production.

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CrystalKey 360

 

Giving heads of cryptography, security architects, and the CISO office a common way to govern policies, automate key lifecycle work, manage payment keys, protect data, and collect evidence across supported HSMs, clouds, key stores, and cryptographic services.

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Govern cryptographic policy, ownership, approvals, and evidence

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Automate key rotation and lifecycle management through API-based integrations

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Gain visibility across supported HSMs, cloud platforms, and key stores

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Manage payment keys and high-value cryptographic workflows

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Use native data-protection services including tokenization, MACing, masking, signing, and encryption

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Improve auditability with logging across supported environments

Cryptographic Control Is Becoming Harder To Operate

 

Most large organizations do not have one cryptographic environment. They have many.

Keys, policies, payment-key workflows, HSMs, cloud key stores, PKI, trust services, applications, and data-protection processes often sit across different teams and tools. Each environment may be secure on its own, but the estate as a whole becomes harder to govern, change, and evidence.

That creates operational pressure:

→ Fragmented ownership across cryptography, security, infrastructure, platform, and application teams

→ Limited visibility across HSMs, clouds, key stores, and services

→ Manual or inconsistent key rotation and lifecycle processes

→ Repeated cryptographic work across applications and payment environments  

→ Scattered logging and evidence during audits

→ More complexity as cloud adoption, payment modernization, and PQC planning accelerate

Cryptography is no longer only an implementation concern. It is a control and operating-model challenge.

What CrystalKey 360 Does

 

CrystalKey 360 provides an API-based control layer for cryptographic governance, lifecycle automation, payment-key management, native data protection, and operational evidence.

It connects to supported HSMs, cloud platforms, key stores, payment environments, and cryptographic services so teams can manage distributed cryptography through a more consistent operating model.

 

CONTROL LAYER

One Control Layer Across The Crypto Estate

Centralize cryptographic governance and lifecycle automation across the infrastructure you already run. 

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Visibility across the crypto estate

Gain a clearer view of keys and cryptographic assets across supported HSM brands, key stores, cloud platforms, and connected services.

Lifecycle automation

Push and automate key rotation and lifecycle management across supported environments, reducing manual coordination and inconsistent change execution.

Payment-key management

Manage payment-key workflows where cryptographic control is directly tied to transaction security, continuity, and auditability.

Native data protection

Use native capabilities for tokenization, MACing, data masking, code signing, database encryption, encryption, and decryption.

Logging and auditability

Use logging across supported environments to improve visibility, accountability, evidence collection, and control.

Built For The Infrastructure You Already Run

 

CrystalKey 360 is vendor-agnostic and designed for hybrid cryptographic estates.

It supports API-based integration across a variety of HSM brands and models, including Thales, Utimaco, Entrust, Futurex, and others, as well as AWS, Azure, GCP, other cloud platforms, and supported key stores.

The goal is not to force every team onto one infrastructure pattern. The goal is to centralize control, standardize lifecycle work, and improve evidence while allowing each environment to keep the infrastructure that fits its requirements.

Control First. Automation Where It Matters. Modernization On Your Terms.

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Centralized Trust Center

 

CrystalKey 360 provides a centralized control layer for trusted cryptographic services across applications, policy, key management and execution environments.

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Where CrystalKey 360 Fits Best

 

CrystalKey 360 is built for organizations where cryptographic complexity is creating operational drag, control gaps, audit pressure, or rising infrastructure cost.

It is especially relevant when you have:

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noun-tick-7996563-EF8000 Payment environments with repeated cryptographic work

 

noun-tick-7996563-EF8000 Strict compliance, audit, and evidence requirements

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Priority Use Cases

 

CrystalKey 360 can start where the pressure is highest, then expand across the estate.

Business Impact Observed In A Large Banking Implementation

 

CrystalKey 360 is designed to reduce the operational burden of cryptographic control while improving visibility, automation, and auditability across complex estates.

 

In a specific large global banking implementation, Cryptomathic observed:

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60%

annual cost savings

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70%

decrease in HSM requirements

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75%

reduction in staffing hours

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faster time to market for new applications

Actual impact depends on your current trust-service model, HSM footprint, application landscape, lifecycle workload, staffing model, and level of duplication across teams and programs.

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Adopt Without Rip-and-Replace

 

PHASE 1

Gain control

Establish visibility, policy, ownership, logging, and evidence across the environments that matter most.

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Standardize lifecycle work

Make key rotation, lifecycle management, payment-key workflows, data-protection services, and change activity more repeatable.

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PHASE 3

Expand across use cases

Extend the same operating model into crypto estate consolidation, shared trust infrastructure, cloud governance, payment-key management, and PQC readiness.

Start with the cryptographic environments you run today. Build the control model you need for what comes next.

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See What CrystalKey 360 Could Change In Your Estate

 

Start with a focused demo, a use-case discussion, or an ROI calculator session based on your own data.

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