NIST published NIST IR 8547, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards. It sets out how the move away from quantum-vulnerable public-key cryptography is expected to proceed, and the dates that will shape it. For security leaders, the main point is about time. The deadlines have been set, the migration will take several years, and the first task is to establish where your cryptography is used today.
Category: PQC readiness
On 3 September 2026, the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group published a document titled Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action urging organizations to plan and prepare their pqc migration.
Every industry has its apocalypse clock. Cybersecurity has had several. Y2K. EternalBlue. The “death of passwords” (still pending). AI-powered phishing. But looming behind all of them is the one threat that sounds like science fiction until it suddenly doesn’t: Q-Day: the moment a quantum computer becomes capable of breaking the public-key cryptography that underpins the modern […]
Australia’s Quantum Security Wake-Up Call Australia occupies a distinct position in the global quantum security landscape. Its heavy reliance on a small number of submarine cable routes, deep integration with Five Eyes and allied intelligence ecosystems, and geopolitical exposure in the Indo-Pacific combine to make it an unusually high-value target for the “harvest now, decrypt […]
HNDL and Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness: Preparing for the Silent Threat In cybersecurity, some threats don’t announce themselves with ransomware notes or flashy breaches. They operate in silence, collecting your encrypted traffic today with the calm confidence that tomorrow’s quantum computers will crack it wide open. This is the essence of Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) […]
Cryptographic Asset Discovery: Why PQC Migration Starts with Visibility Before any building contractor can safely remove asbestos, they need a full survey of where it lives. Ripping out walls without knowing what’s behind them doesn’t solve the problem—it makes it worse. The same principle applies to post‑quantum cryptography migration. Cryptographic asset discovery — knowing exactly where […]
Banks are not delaying post-quantum cryptography migration because they don’t understand the threat. They are delaying it because they don’t understand their cryptography. Let that sink in. Tom Millar, CEO, Venari Everyone in cybersecurity is talking about Post-quantum cryptography migration NIST has published the first standards. Regulators are asking questions. Security teams understand the Harvest […]
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are everywhere. They secure API calls, authenticate users across microservices, and underpin the identity layer of modern web applications. But the cryptographic foundations that make JWTs trustworthy, like RSA and elliptic curve signatures, face a serious threat. Quantum computing could break them. The race to retrofit the JWT and JOSE ecosystem […]
Most people read the G7’s post-quantum roadmap and fixate on the algorithms. Tom Millar reads something far more uncomfortable between the lines: a quiet admission that many institutions still don’t know what they need to protect. In his article, Tom argues that PQC migration won’t fail because of cryptography — NIST-approved algorithms already exist — […]