What CBOMs help with
- Describe cryptographic assets and algorithm usage.
- Support discovery, inventory, and dependency analysis.
- Provide artifact-level context for migration planning.
- Help teams ask better questions about exposure.
CBOM vs crypto posture governance
CBOMs help teams understand cryptographic inventory. Crypto posture governance turns inventory and evaluation records into policy context, compliance status, remediation ownership, approved exceptions, and audit-ready evidence.
What CBOMs do not solve alone
- Decide which policy applies to each application or service.
- Track remediation ownership, approvals, and expiry dates.
- Show current compliance status across a migration scope.
- Keep evidence current as standards and systems change.
Decision guide
Use CBOMs when you need cryptographic inventory. Use governance when you need to make, track, and evidence decisions about that inventory.
You are discovering exposure
CBOMs help describe cryptographic assets and algorithm usage. They are useful inputs when your first question is “where is crypto used?”
You are defining policy
Governance is needed when teams must decide which standard-aligned policy applies, which controls warn or fail, and which systems are in scope.
You are running remediation
Governance is needed when findings need owners, status, target dates, approved exceptions, and expiry-based review.
You are proving progress
CBOMs can support evidence, but evidence-ready governance also needs policy context, evaluation records, decisions, and history.
Where crypto posture governance fits
Crypto posture governance uses inventory and evaluation evidence as inputs, then adds the governance layer needed for PQC migration: policy templates, scoped baselines, remediation tracking, approved exception decisions, and evidence history.