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Cryptographic Inflation: The Economics of Uncertainty
PQC Economics For the past three years, almost every serious discussion about Post-Quantum Cryptography has started with the same question: How much will it cost? Governments have published rough estimates. Boards want numbers. Vendors are selling calculators. Consultants are packaging migration roadmaps. But that question is still too narrow. It treats PQC like a software upgrade. It is not. The economics of PQC are not driven by cryptographic algorithms. They are driven by
Brian Couzens
Jul 104 min read
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CBOM: The Difference Between Discovery and Intelligence
The Missing Discipline The post-quantum conversation has a numbers problem. Vendors love to say they have found millions of cryptographic assets. That sounds serious. It sounds comprehensive. It sounds like the sort of number a board should pay attention to. But in most environments, that number is doing a lot of rhetorical work. What organisations usually have are millions of cryptographic instances. The same library. The same certificate. The same key store. The same implem
Brian Couzens
Jul 85 min read
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CBOM - The Real Story
๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฏ๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ "๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ฌ." That sounds impressive. In reality, it frequently conflates cryptographic #instances with unique cryptographic #dependencies. There is a fundamental difference. The same cryptographic library, certificate, key store, or implementation can appear thousands of times across ser
Brian Couzens
Jul 82 min read
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THE DEFINITIVE CBOM OPERATING MODEL
From "Dark Matter" Liability to Defensible Fiduciary Asset 1. Executive Summary: The Fiduciary Imperative In a $100T digital economy, cryptography is the invisible keel holding the ship of state and commerce upright. It secures identity, privacy, and value transfer. Yet 95% of enterprises operate with near-zero visibility into where this cryptography lives, how it behaves, or whether it remains fit for purpose (NIST). This hidden exposure has evolved into Cryptographic Dark M
Brian Couzens
Jun 198 min read
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QBOM or CBOM
Why organisations are suddenly asking about #QBOM and what it may actually mean Over the past 48 hours we have seen a surge of calls from Indian organisations and global vendors operating in India. The question has been: โWhat is a QBOM, and do we need to produce one?โ The confusion comes from Indiaโs National Quantum Mission report. It references QBOM in the glossary, but does not define it, scope it, mandate it, attach a schema, or link it to procurement or certification. S
Brian Couzens
May 222 min read
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