We're setting a timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration to 2029.
Cryptographic governance for directors, executive teams, and general counsel. Built by veteran cybersecurity executives, anchored in leading academic post-quantum research.
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QuantaCyber combines academic discovery with enterprise cybersecurity strategy to help boards and executive teams navigate the transition to quantum-safe security.
We partner with academic institutions, quantum computing innovators, and critical infrastructure organizations to translate cutting-edge post-quantum research into governance-ready guidance, validated migration plans, and crypto-agile architectures.
And we curate best-of-breed partner solutions, matched to each customer's threat profile, regulatory posture, and infrastructure context, so the right capability lands in the right scenario.
Boards and executive teams have historically treated them as separate technology initiatives, each with its own roadmap and owner. That separation no longer reflects how risk moves through modern enterprises.
AI is compressing the timeline on both sides of the cryptographic transition. For defenders, AI may become the most practical way to discover cryptographic assets at enterprise scale, map machine identities and trust relationships, accelerate migration to post-quantum cryptography, and maintain crypto-agility as standards evolve. On the adversary side, AI and algorithmic advances are reducing the resources required to break today's cryptography, compressing the threat horizon independent of progress in quantum hardware.
At the same time, quantum computing is creating a future requirement to replace foundational cryptographic systems that underpin identities, certificates, applications, networks, and digital trust. The convergence becomes even more significant as AI-driven systems create billions of new machine-to-machine interactions that depend on those same cryptographic foundations.
This is why we work at the intersection. A quantum-only advisory firm may underestimate how AI compresses migration timelines. An AI-only practice may overlook the implications of the coming cryptographic transition. Traditional cybersecurity programs often see the current attack surface but not the structural shift occurring beneath it. QuantaCyber is built to help organizations understand all three domains together: to manage risk, maintain trust, and navigate the transition to the post-quantum era.
of executives say security will be a board-level mandate equal to financial performance by 2030. Only 34% are actively preparing their organization to be quantum safe today.
IBM Institute for Business Value, "The Enterprise in 2030," January 2026. Survey of 2,000+ executives across 33 geographies and 23 industries, conducted with Oxford Economics.
Shor's algorithm, executed on a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, dismantles the public-key cryptography that protects logins, transactions, signatures, and sensitive data across every sector.
The risk does not begin when quantum computers arrive. It begins now. Adversaries are conducting harvest-now, decrypt-later collection against long-lived data, capturing encrypted material today to decrypt once a cryptographically relevant quantum computer becomes available.
For data with a multi-year confidentiality requirement, including financial records, health data, classified communications, intellectual property, and personally identifiable information, the threat is already in flight.
If X plus Y is greater than Z, your organization is already exposed.
How many years your sensitive data must remain confidential after it is created.
How long it will take to deploy quantum-safe cryptography across your enterprise.
Years until cryptographically relevant quantum computers exist.
Framework attributed to Dr. Michele Mosca, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo.
The case for action is no longer being made by quantum specialists alone. It is being made by federal cybersecurity leadership, hyperscaler security organizations, and the global advisory firms whose work boards already trust.
We're setting a timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration to 2029.
Even though we can't predict when Q-Day will occur, adversaries aren't waiting.
Post-quantum cryptography is no longer a research program. The standards are published, the federal mandates are issued, and the hyperscalers have set internal deadlines.
FIPS 203, 204, and 205 published as the official U.S. post-quantum cryptography standards, ending nearly a decade of standardization work.
NIST · Federal Information Processing Standards 203, 204, 205National Security Agency mandates that National Security Systems begin transitioning to quantum-resistant algorithms.
NSA · Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0Heather Adkins, VP Security Engineering, and Sophie Schmieg, Senior Staff Cryptography Engineer, announce Google's 2029 deadline for full post-quantum cryptography migration.
Google Security Blog · March 25, 2026Authored by Morgan Adamski, Principal at PwC, and Rob Joyce, Cybersecurity Senior Fellow at PwC and former Cybersecurity Director at the NSA. Frames Q-Day as a near-term enterprise priority and emphasizes that adversaries are already collecting encrypted data for future decryption.
PwC · April 13, 2026Long-lived data created today is being captured by adversaries, to be decrypted once a cryptographically relevant quantum computer becomes available.
Per Adkins, full transition to post-quantum cryptography across Google's infrastructure.
The horizon by which IBM Institute for Business Value research projects board-level security oversight to reach the same standing as financial performance reporting. Today only about a third of surveyed organizations report active preparation.
IBM Institute for Business Value · "The Enterprise in 2030" · January 2026Different stakeholders carry different exposure to the post-quantum transition. Each role has a distinct first conversation.
Director-level fiduciary exposure, the seven oversight questions, peer benchmarking against IBM IBV, NACD, and Deloitte data.
Board resources For ExecutivesFor CISOs, CIOs, and CTOs: NIST FIPS 203/204/205 implementation paths, vendor dependency mapping, crypto-agility design.
Request executive briefing For CounselSEC, NYDFS, and HHS disclosure expectations. Caremark exposure analysis. Tabletop exercise design with Robert Taylor, JD.
Request counsel briefingCrypto-agility is not a single project. It is an architectural property that allows your organization to support today's PKI infrastructure, the new NIST PQC standards, and future cryptographic updates without rebuilding from scratch each time.
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This transition takes years, not months. The time to start is now, before adversaries harvesting your data today are able to decrypt it tomorrow.
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