Case Studies/Atlas Ledger
One vendor for an enterprise chain — security, compliance, and quantum risk
An established institution piloting a permissioned network did not want three RFPs. Avenza owned security testing, regulatory posture, and an early quantum-exposure map under one retainer.
- Accountable vendor
- 1
- Findings closed
- 16
- Exposure map
- PQC
The challenge
The gap after delivery
Procurement had started three parallel tracks: a security firm, a law firm, and a later 'innovation' brief on post-quantum crypto. No one would own the operational relationship once the pilot went live.
- Node, identity, and admin APIs sat on enterprise infrastructure the security RFP did not cover.
- Compliance questions spanned data residency, participant onboarding, and audit trails.
- Cryptographic inventory was undocumented; harvest-now-decrypt-later risk was not in scope anywhere.
What Avenza did
One continuous workstream
Avenza collapsed the three tracks. Penetration testing, node hardening, participant compliance, and a first cryptographic inventory ran as one program with a named owner.
- Assessed validator nodes, RPC surfaces, and identity/access paths on the pilot network.
- Designed participant KYC, logging, and records obligations against the intended jurisdictions.
- Catalogued signature schemes and key lifetimes for a first quantum-threat assessment.
- Left a retained operations layer so the pilot was not orphaned after the readout.
Outcomes
Cover that did not end
The steering committee got one briefing, one risk register, and one partner still accountable after the pilot gate.
- Critical admin-API exposure closed before external participants joined.
- Compliance operating model approved alongside the technical go-live.
- Board received a quantum-exposure horizon instead of a future workstream with no owner.
- Avenza retained as the single vendor into the production phase.
“We were heading toward three vendors and no owner. Avenza sat in the space between them.”
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