CrystalKey360
Overview
CrystalKey360 is a centralised platform for managing cryptographic policies, keys, and governance across fragmented multi-cloud and hybrid environments. It integrates quantum-safe cryptographic primitives through technology partnerships, providing organisations with a path to post-quantum cryptography readiness whilst maintaining visibility and control over their current cryptographic estate.
Unsung implements CrystalKey360 for UK customers that need unified cryptographic governance across complex, multi-cloud environments, particularly those in regulated sectors where demonstrating compliance and preparing for PQC migration are concurrent priorities.
The Challenge
Organisations operating across multiple cloud providers, on-premises data centres, and hybrid environments face a growing governance challenge: their cryptographic keys and policies are spread across disparate provider-specific key management services, each with its own interfaces, policies, and compliance evidence. This fragmentation makes it difficult to maintain consistent cryptographic policies, demonstrate compliance across the estate, and prepare for the transition to post-quantum algorithms.
Regulatory requirements are increasingly demanding formal PQC migration strategies and evidence of crypto-agility readiness. Organisations without centralised visibility of their cryptographic estate cannot inventory their current algorithms, assess their quantum risk exposure, or plan a coherent transition. They need a governance layer that sits above individual cloud KMS services and provides unified policy management and compliance reporting.
What It Does
CrystalKey360 provides that governance layer, offering a single platform from which organisations can define and enforce cryptographic policies across all their environments. It provides visibility of the cryptographic estate, policy enforcement for key lifecycle management, and compliance reporting that aggregates evidence from across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
The platform integrates quantum-safe algorithms through its partnership with PQShield, enabling organisations to begin introducing post-quantum cryptography into their key management operations. This crypto-agility — the ability to update cryptographic algorithms without disruptive infrastructure overhauls — is increasingly expected by regulators and standards bodies as part of PQC readiness. CrystalKey360 is available on a subscription basis, reflecting its positioning as a governance and policy platform rather than a traditional on-premises key management system.
How Unsung Helps
Unsung assists clients in assessing their cryptographic governance requirements, evaluating their current multi-cloud key management landscape, and implementing CrystalKey360 to provide unified policy control and PQC readiness. Our PKI Consultancy service provides independent guidance on cryptographic strategy, including post-quantum migration planning and multi-cloud key governance.
Related Unsung Services
PKI Consultancy — Advisory on cryptographic governance, PQC readiness, and multi-cloud key management.
Hardware Security Modules — HSM integration across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
