Keyfactor Launches Trust Control Plane for Machine Identities and Cryptography
2026-06-10 15:00
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en.Wedoany.com Reported - Keyfactor announced the launch of Trust Control Plane on June 9, 2026, a unified operational model for machine identities and cryptography designed to build trust infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and machines, ensuring the security of every digital interaction.

Keyfactor is a leader in trust infrastructure for AI and machines. This platform enables enterprises to take control of the machine identities and cryptographic technologies that protect digital interactions. By consolidating fragmented tools and assets into a single control plane, security teams can gain visibility into their cryptographic landscape, discover and remediate risk exposures, deploy compliant and quantum-safe cryptographic technologies, and issue cryptographic identities for every machine, workload, and AI.

Trust infrastructure has become mission-critical. It encompasses the cryptographic identities, assets, and systems that protect digital interactions. In the past, this infrastructure only needed to be configured once and checked when problems arose. AI agents, cloud workloads, and connected devices have caused a surge in the number of machine identities, making manual tracking impractical. Certificate validity periods are shortening, standards are constantly evolving, and quantum computing may threaten existing digital trust algorithms. Enterprises are paying the price: unmonitored certificates lead to service outages, and audits turn into emergency drills.

Keyfactor Chief Technology Officer Ted Shorter noted that four factors—the proliferation of AI-driven identities, shorter certificate validity periods, stricter regulations, and post-quantum deadlines—pose challenges. "Any one of these would strain the old model; combined, they break it." The Trust Control Plane provides security teams with visibility, orchestration, and governance capabilities, enabling them to manage trust as a system and stay ahead of future challenges.

With the Trust Control Plane, security teams can: gain full visibility into cryptographic technologies across networks, clouds, code, and applications to uncover hidden risks; issue cryptographically verifiable identities and sign code on a single, quantum-resistant infrastructure, replacing legacy systems and point tools; automate manual tasks through self-service workflows; and adapt to new standards and emerging threats without disrupting operations. The control plane operates not as a disjointed task list but as a continuous cycle of observation, analysis, configuration, orchestration, and governance, where discovery drives risk-based decisions, automation puts them into action, and governance validates every step against policy.

Keyfactor Chief Product and Technology Officer Gün Akkor added that security teams have been in a reactive state for years, and the Trust Control Plane allows them to continuously and proactively control the trust foundation on which their business relies.

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