Cryptography

Prepare your cryptography for the quantum transition

NIST has published its first post-quantum standards and set transition timelines. Readiness starts with knowing where your cryptography is — which most organizations cannot answer today.

Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness

Data encrypted today with RSA or elliptic-curve cryptography can be harvested now and decrypted once a capable quantum computer exists. For data that must stay confidential for years, the risk is already present.

Dave led post-quantum and TLS 1.3 readiness work groups at a major U.S. bank and governed 2.5 million certificates across 80,000 servers. This engagement applies that experience: build the inventory, prioritize by data shelf life and exposure, and sequence a crypto-agile migration that fits real system lifecycles.

What you receive

  • Cryptographic inventory (a cryptographic bill of materials) for in-scope systems
  • Quantum risk prioritization based on data shelf life, exposure, and migration complexity
  • Third-party and vendor post-quantum readiness assessment
  • Crypto-agility requirements and reference architecture
  • Phased migration roadmap aligned to NIST transition timelines
  • Executive brief and program governance model

How the engagement runs

Plan the program

Scope, governance, and discovery approach; select discovery tools and data sources.

Discover and inventory

Certificates, protocols, libraries, keys, and HSMs from scans, CMDB, and code.

Prioritize

Rate each system on data shelf life, exposure, and migration difficulty.

Roadmap

Crypto-agility requirements, vendor asks, sequenced migration plan, and executive brief.

Frameworks and standards

NIST FIPS 203 / 204 / 205NIST IR 8547NIST CSWP 39 (crypto agility)NSM-10NSA CNSA 2.0CISA/NSA/NIST Quantum-Readiness GuidanceCycloneDX CBOM

Questions

Is this urgent if quantum computers are years away?

For long-lived sensitive data, yes, because of harvest-now, decrypt-later risk. Inventories and vendor commitments also take years, which is why the roadmap starts now.

Do you sell discovery tools?

No. We are tool-neutral and help you use existing scanners, certificate managers, and CMDB data, or select a tool if needed.

Know where your AI governance program stands

A free 30-minute gap check with a written one-page readout. No sales deck.

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