Trust Infrastructure Maturity Model
Where does your organisation's trust infrastructure sit today? This self-assessment takes 2 minutes and maps your current approach to one of five maturity levels.
Most organisations protect network perimeters. Few verify individual messages. The Trust Infrastructure Maturity Model maps five levels of organisational readiness -- from firewall-only security to a full cryptographic trust mesh. Use the self-assessment below to identify where your organisation sits and what the next level looks like.
Five maturity levels
Cryptographic Trust Mesh
Full provenance, compliance attestation, and cross-border interoperability. End-to-end verifiable trust across organisational and national boundaries.
Decentralised Trust
Trust infrastructure operates without central authority dependency. Distributed key management with no single point of failure across organisational boundaries.
Message Verified
Individual messages carry integrity proof. S/MIME or similar per-message signing deployed, but dependent on a centralised certificate authority.
Identity Aware
Users are authenticated, but messages are not. IAM and SSO deployed, but communication between organisations still relies on network trust.
Perimeter Only
Trust stops at the firewall. VPN and firewall-based security with no message-level verification. Implicit trust inside the network boundary.
Assess your organisation's maturity level
Answer seven yes-or-no questions to discover your current maturity level. No email address or registration required.
1. Does your organisation verify individual messages (not just domains)?
2. Can you cryptographically prove who sent a specific message?
3. Does message verification depend on a single certificate authority?
4. Can your trust infrastructure operate if one component fails?
5. Can you prove data provenance across organisational boundaries?
6. Does your infrastructure support cross-border compliance attestation?
7. Can external auditors independently verify your communication trust chain?
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