For more than a decade the cryptographic landscape has been poorly understood and visualized but implicitly trusted. Now with the principles of zero trust and the emerging threat of cryptographically relevant quantum computers organizations must transition from implicit trust to direct management of their cryptographic landscape. Risk officers now have to extend their vulnerability management programs to include the cryptographic environment in order to properly identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities before they are exploited and demonstrate due care and diligence around growing data protection profiles and volumes.

Successful ransomware attacks have continued to rise. Attacks are now targeting IoT devices as well as legacy Operational Technology systems. A better approach to mitigating the threat of ransomware comes from removing the ability to execute malicious encryption actions at run-time. Thus removing the most damaging part of the ransomware attack and providing more time and data to locate and contain the threat agent.