About
Trust deserves a map.
Every company runs on cryptography it cannot fully see. CipherMap exists to make that trust visible, keep it strong, and move it safely to what comes next.
Why we are building CipherMap
Cryptography is the quiet layer under everything: the padlock in the browser, the login that proves who you are, the encryption on a database backup, the signature on a software update. When it works, nobody thinks about it. When it fails, it fails all at once: a certificate expires and a service goes dark, a key leaks and years of data are exposed.
Most organisations have never had a full picture of this layer. It grew piece by piece, across teams, vendors and libraries, and nobody wrote it all down. That was survivable while the algorithms stayed strong.
That is changing. Quantum computing will break the public-key cryptography the internet relies on, and the official standards for its replacements are already published. Certificate lifetimes are shrinking fast. AI agents are being handed keys and tokens. Every one of these shifts starts with the same question, “what do we actually have?”, and most teams cannot answer it.
CipherMap answers that question, then does the long, careful work that follows: ranking the risks, writing the fixes and keeping the evidence.
The name
A cipher is the maths that keeps a secret. A map shows you where everything is and how to get somewhere new. CipherMap is both: a picture of every cipher you depend on, and the route from today’s cryptography to tomorrow’s.
What we believe
- You cannot protect what you cannot see. An accurate inventory comes before every other decision.
- Engineers stay in charge. An agent should do the tedious work and explain itself; people decide what ships.
- Scope is a feature. We go deep on cryptography rather than shallow on all of security.
- Plain language wins. Every finding should make sense to the engineer who fixes it and the executive who signs off.