2026 WINNER · CYBERSECURITY STARS AWARDS
ISARA Advance · Autonomous Crypto Posture Management
Best Critical Infrastructure Platform
Overview
ISARA is the Autonomous Crypto Posture Management company. We build the platform that gives enterprises and agencies' security teams continuous visibility into the cryptography running on their networks — surfacing today's deprecated protocols, weak ciphers, misconfigured certificates, and preparing organizations for crypto agility today and the post-quantum era in one system.
Most enterprise security tools cannot see cryptography. Vulnerability scanners look for CVEs. Compliance platforms ask whether encryption is "in place." Certificate lifecycle tools track expiration. None of them surface the cryptographic posture of a live network at the level required to manage it. The result, in almost every organization, is a substantial share of the network running on cryptographic protocols broken years ago — invisible to the existing security stack.
ISARA Advance closes that gap. The platform continuously discovers cryptography across the environment without agents, analyzes the findings against current and post-quantum standards, prioritizes remediation by business risk, and routes the fixes through the operational systems security teams already use. Customers see what is broken today, fix it through workflows they already run, and approach the post-quantum transition with the continuous current-state inventory real migration requires.
ISARA has been working in applied and post-quantum cryptography since before the current PQC standardization wave. That heritage informs every measurement the platform makes — which standards apply, which algorithms count as quantum-ready in a given context, which migration paths are real versus aspirational.
How you encrypt matters. ISARA is how you find out what yours is doing.
Key Capabilities
ISARA Advance is built around a six-segment architecture purpose-built for continuous cryptographic posture management:
- Network Discovery. Continuous, agentless surfacing of cryptographic configurations across the environment — every protocol version, cipher suite, algorithm in use, and certificate configuration. No agents to deploy. No pre-declared inventory required.
- Validators. Each discovered configuration is measured against current cryptographic standards and against NIST-finalized post-quantum standards. Deprecated protocols, weak ciphers, misconfigured certificates, and algorithms that fail PQC criteria are flagged as evidence-backed findings.
- Application Discovery. Cryptographic findings are correlated to the applications and business processes they protect, so a finding on a payment system carries different weight than one on a test environment.
- Risk Prioritization. Validator output and application context combine into a continuously updated, business-weighted remediation queue — defensible to executives and auditors.
- Actionability. Remediation work flows into the operational systems security teams already use, with full business context attached: affected application, business weight, recommended path, target resolution.
- Company-Wide Reporting. Continuously updated, audit-ready cryptographic posture for security leaders, infrastructure, GRC, executives, and boards. Cryptographic posture becomes a metric the board can interpret — for the first time.
Together, the six segments deliver something no other tool in the security stack produces: a continuous, business-contextualized, operationally actionable view of the cryptography running on the enterprise network.
How we are different
- Cryptography-first architecture. Every adjacent category — GRC, vulnerability management, certificate lifecycle, PQC consulting — treats cryptography as a dependency of something else. ISARA treats it as the discipline itself, with an architecture purpose-built for it.
- Continuous, not point-in-time. Cryptography changes continuously as services deploy, keys rotate, and libraries update. ISARA measures it continuously. Replaces spreadsheets, consulting engagements, and static assessments with live posture data.
- Agentless network discovery. Coverage without deployment drag. No assumption of pre-declared inventory. Surfaces cryptography as it actually exists, not as the architecture diagram says it should.
- Business-context prioritization. Risk is ranked by what each finding protects, not by generic severity scoring. Security teams fix the broken protocol on the payment system before the one on the test server — with defensible logic behind the order.
- Operationally integrated. Cryptographic findings flow into the operational systems security teams already run. No new workflow. No separate tool. Action where work already happens.
- Current Crypto Posture & Post-Quantum Readiness all in one platform. Today's broken classical cryptography and tomorrow's post-quantum readiness are the same problem, solved by the same system. Customers get measurable value on day one — and enter the quantum era already in control.
- Deep cryptographic heritage. ISARA has been working in applied and post-quantum cryptography since before the current PQC standardization wave. That depth informs every measurement the platform makes — which standards apply, which algorithms count as quantum-ready in a given context, which migration paths are real versus aspirational.
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