Modern organizations can accumulate thousands of certificates, keys, protocols, and algorithm usages scattered across applications, servers, and source code. CBOM Secure discovers and inventories all of it, but turning that inventory into decisions has traditionally required specialized skills, manual analysis, and a deep familiarity with both your data and the relevant security standards.
The AI Service removes that barrier. Instead of writing queries or sifting through reports, your team simply asks, in everyday language, and gets immediate, context-aware answers drawn directly from your own cryptographic data.
What Is the CBOM Secure AI Service?
The AI Service is an intelligent assistant for your cryptographic inventory. It understands natural-language questions, interprets what you are looking for, retrieves the right information from your CBOM, and responds with a clear answer, whether that is a short explanation, a detailed analysis, an interactive table, or a visual chart. Whether you are chasing down an expiring certificate, checking a configuration against a standard, or pulling together a summary for leadership, it meets you where you are and shapes its response to the question you actually asked.
Built on Your Own Cryptographic Data
The AI Service does not work in isolation. It sits directly on top of the cryptographic inventory that CBOM Secure builds across your environment, your certificates, keys, protocols, and the algorithms discovered in your source code. Every answer is grounded in your actual data, then enriched with knowledge of recognized security standards so the guidance you receive is both relevant and authoritative.
Ask in Plain Language, Get Answers in the Right Form
There is nothing to learn and no query language to master. The AI Service interprets your intent, pulls the relevant findings from your inventory, and decides how best to present them. You ask a question the way you would ask a colleague, and the AI Service responds in the format that best fits the answer:
| Response Type | Best For |
|---|---|
| Narrative answer | Explanations, counts, and yes/no questions |
| Interactive table | Browsing, sorting, and filtering lists of findings |
| Visual chart | Seeing distributions and trends at a glance |
For example, your team might ask:
- Which certificates expire in the next 90 days?
- Show me every host still using RSA-1024.
- Create a chart of our certificates by algorithm.
- Is SHA-1 still acceptable for our compliance requirements?
- What are my biggest cryptographic risks right now?
What the AI Service Can Do
The AI Service brings together inventory insight, risk analysis, and compliance knowledge in a single conversational experience. Instead of switching between dashboards, reports, and standards documents, your team works through one interface that already understands your environment and the questions you are likely to ask. The capabilities below show what it can do.
Instant Inventory Insight
- Count and break down certificates, keys, and protocols by algorithm, key size, host, type, or discovery date.
- Find expired or soon-to-expire certificates before they cause outages.
- Surface the weakest key sizes and self-signed certificates in use.
- Understands algorithm naming variations automatically, so different ways of writing the same algorithm all return consistent results.
Risk and Weakness Detection
- Identify weak or deprecated algorithms, such as MD5, SHA-1, DES, and RSA-1024, across your estate.
- Flag risky configurations, including short keys, weak modes, and hardcoded secrets.
- Receive risk severity and prioritization so teams can focus on the highest-impact issues first.
Compliance and Standards Guidance
- Ask whether an algorithm or configuration meets a given standard, such as NIST SP 800-131A, FIPS 140-3, or PCI DSS.
- Get recommendations grounded in recognized standards from NIST, FIPS, IETF, and CIS.
- Retrieve current post-quantum cryptography guidance to inform your migration planning.
Source Code Cryptography Insight
- Ask what cryptography your source code uses, which algorithms, which libraries, and which codebases.
- Connect code-level findings to your broader cryptographic inventory for a complete picture.
Answers Tailored to You
- Choose the level of detail, from a quick one-line answer to a full analysis with compliance implications and remediation steps.
- Get results as text, sortable tables, or charts, whichever makes the answer clearest.
- Revisit recent questions quickly to refine or repeat an analysis.
Who Benefits, and How
The AI Service makes cryptographic intelligence accessible to every stakeholder, not just specialists. Because answers come back in plain language and in the format that suits each question, very different roles can get what they need without learning a query syntax or waiting on the security team:
| Role | How They Use It |
|---|---|
| Security Engineers | “Which hosts use RSA-1024?” or “Show certificates expiring this quarter as a table.” |
| CISOs & Security Leaders | “What are my biggest cryptographic risks?” or “Chart our inventory by algorithm.” |
| Compliance Officers | “Which certificates meet NIST SP 800-131A?” or “Is SHA-1 acceptable under PCI DSS?” |
| Auditors | “List every self-signed certificate and the hosts it is on.” |
| Developers | “What cryptographic functions does our codebase use?” |
Key Benefits
The AI Service translates cryptographic visibility into outcomes your whole organization can feel. From faster day-to-day decisions to a stronger compliance posture, the value shows up at every level of your security program. Here is what that means for your team in practice:
| Benefit | What It Means for You |
|---|---|
| Plain-language access | Anyone can query the inventory, with no technical query skills required. |
| Faster decisions | Answers in seconds, instead of manual analysis and report-digging. |
| Context-aware guidance | Standards-aligned recommendations, not just raw numbers. |
| Risk prioritization | Focus on the highest-impact cryptographic issues first. |
| Compliance readiness | Verify your posture against recognized standards on demand. |
| Data stays in your control | Use private, self-hosted AI models so sensitive data never leaves your environment. |
Designed for Security and Control
Because the AI Service works with sensitive cryptographic information, it is built to respect your security boundaries at every step. Nothing about the way it operates requires you to loosen your controls or move data outside your environment:
- It works in a read-only manner against your inventory, making it safe to use in production.
- It can run with private, self-hosted AI models, so sensitive data stays within your environment.
- It is available across every CBOM Secure deployment model, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid.
How Encryption Consulting Can Help
The AI Service is most powerful when it is tuned to your environment, standards, and priorities. Encryption Consulting’s CBOM Secure helps you get there and put the insights to work. Our team helps organizations discover, assess, and modernize their cryptography across complex, regulated environments, and we bring that hands-on experience to every engagement. We begin by understanding how your business actually uses cryptography today, then shape the AI Service so its answers reflect your architecture, your risk tolerance, and the standards you are held to.
- Enable and configure the AI Service for your environment and chosen deployment model, whether SaaS, on-premises, or hybrid, including the setup of private, self-hosted AI models where data residency or confidentiality requirements demand it.
- Align it to the standards, policies, and compliance frameworks that matter to you, from NIST SP 800-131A and FIPS 140-3 to PCI DSS and your own internal cryptographic policies, so every answer maps to the benchmarks you are measured against.
- Pair AI-driven insight with expert remediation and post-quantum migration guidance, helping you turn flagged risks into prioritized, actionable plans instead of a backlog of findings.
- Provide managed services and ongoing support so the value keeps compounding, with regular tuning, new standards coverage, and a team on hand as your environment and the threat landscape evolve.
- Integrate the AI Service with your existing security and certificate-management workflows so insights flow into the tools your teams already use.
- Build the cryptographic reporting that leadership, auditors, and regulators expect, backed by data you can defend.
From initial enablement through long-term optimization, Encryption Consulting helps you move from cryptographic questions to confident, auditable answers, so your team spends less time wrestling with data and more time acting on it. Whether you are starting with discovery or maturing an established program, we meet you where you are and grow the capability alongside you. The result is a cryptographic program that is not only fully visible, but understood, defensible, and ready for whatever comes next.
Conclusion
Cryptographic visibility is only valuable when you can act on it. The AI Service in CBOM Secure turns a vast, complex inventory into a conversation, letting anyone on your team ask the right questions and get clear, standards-aligned answers in seconds. What once demanded specialized tooling and painstaking manual analysis now takes a single plain-language question.
Combined with the discovery and management capabilities of CBOM Secure and the expertise of Encryption Consulting, the AI Service helps your organization understand its cryptography, reduce risk, and prepare with confidence for the post-quantum era.
Want to put your cryptographic inventory to work? Talk to Encryption Consulting about the AI Service in CBOM Secure.
