Abstract: An exemplary method includes transmitting, by a software application subsystem, a request to an encryption services subsystem to route a message generated by an originating software application to a recipient software application through a message broker subsystem, acquiring, by the software application subsystem, data representative of a current encryption configuration of the message broker subsystem from the encryption services subsystem in response to the request, and determining, by the software application subsystem, during a run time of the originating software application whether to encrypt the message before the message is transmitted to the message broker subsystem for routing to the recipient software application, the determination based at least in part on the current encryption configuration of the message broker subsystem. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.