The CPM Checklist

The Architect’s Blueprint: A Checklist for Modern Cryptography Posture Management (CPM)

Your CLM manages certificates. But who is managing the cryptography in your code, runtime, and supply chain?

Traditional Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools are blind to the cryptography that creates 90% of your risk surface: third-party libraries, keys on filesystems, and calls executing in runtime memory.

This buyer’s guide cuts through vendor noise to provide a defensible framework for evaluating Modern Cryptography Posture Management (CPM)

Download the checklist to benchmark your posture and learn how to:

• Expose hidden cryptographic risk across code, runtime, and filesystems, not just certificates your CLM can see
• Prove compliance with confidence, including the absence of non-compliant crypto for audits and regulators
• Separate theoretical risk from actionable fixes so remediation doesn’t cause outages
• Enforce cryptographic policy earlier in CI/CD to stop bad crypto before it reaches production

If you’re evaluating CPM tools or questioning whether your current approach will survive 90-day certificates, audits, and post-quantum mandates this checklist gives you a fast, defensible way to decide.