Nation-states are harvesting your encrypted data right now. When quantum computers arrive, they will decrypt everything. The clock is already ticking.
Adversaries capture encrypted VPN sessions, emails, and file transfers today. They store petabytes cheaply, waiting for quantum decryption capability.
The G7 declared 2026 the Year of Quantum Readiness. The EU mandates post-quantum migration plans for critical infrastructure by 2027. Urgency is official.
If your data must stay secret for X years, and migration takes Y years, you must start when X+Y exceeds time to quantum. For most organizations, that is now.
Shor's algorithm destroys RSA-2048 and ECC on a sufficiently large quantum computer. TLS, VPNs, code signing, and digital certificates all become worthless.
Medical records, government secrets, financial data, and legal documents must stay confidential for decades. Data encrypted in 2019 is already at risk.
Half of enterprises have no post-quantum migration plan. Most cannot even inventory where cryptography is used. You cannot protect what you cannot find.
NIST finalized ML-KEM and ML-DSA in 2024. Production-ready libraries exist. The standards are not the bottleneck. Organizational inertia is.
1. Cryptographic inventory. 2. Risk prioritization. 3. Hybrid deployment. 4. Testing and validation. 5. Full migration. Start with your most sensitive data.
Detailed threat analysis, migration framework, vendor comparison, and implementation timeline for your post-quantum cryptography transition.