Quantum-Safe

Cryptographic discovery, migration engineering and independent evaluation.

Mapped to the mandates that actually apply to you — not to a generic quantum roadmap. Six engagements, named outputs, and no prices on the page: tell us the problem and we’ll come back with a bounded scope.

The mandate map

Which deadlines bind you, and when.

Every row below cites its primary source. We keep this table current because our own roadmaps depend on it.

Post-quantum migration deadlines by jurisdiction. Verify against the linked source before relying on any date.
Jurisdiction Instrument Key dates What is required
United Kingdom NCSC migration timelines 2028
2031
2035
Discovery and assessment complete with an initial plan by 2028; highest-priority migration complete by 2031; full migration by 2035.
US federal, civilian Executive Order 14412 · OMB M-26-15 2030
2031
2035
High Value Assets and high-impact systems on PQC for key establishment by 31 Dec 2030 and digital signatures by 31 Dec 2031; remaining systems by 2035. National Security Systems are carved out.
US algorithms NIST IR 8547 2030
2035
RSA, ECDSA, ECDH and DH deprecated from 2030 and disallowed from 2035. Standards: FIPS 203 ML-KEM, FIPS 204 ML-DSA, FIPS 205 SLH-DSA.
US National Security Systems NSA CNSA 2.0 · DoW PQC Strategy 2027
2030–2033
Quantum-resistant cryptography expected for new acquisitions from 2027; required dates run 2030–2033 by application category. ML-KEM-1024 and ML-DSA-87. QKD does not appear.
European Union EC coordinated roadmap · NIS2 Art. 21 2030
2035
High-risk systems secured by end-2030; full transition by 2035. ENISA recommends hybrid post-quantum/traditional schemes during transition.
India DST / National Quantum Mission Task Force · MeitY and CERT-In whitepaper 2027
2028
2030
MeitY and CERT-In published Transitioning to Quantum Cyber Readiness in July 2025, directing finance, defence and healthcare to move first. The DST Task Force report under the National Quantum Mission, finalised in May 2026, recommends formal PQC implementation in Critical Information Infrastructure from 2027, short-term actions complete by 2028, and migration of high-priority long-lifetime systems by 2030, alongside mandatory cryptographic inventories and quantum-safe requirements in government procurement. Sectoral regulators including RBI, SEBI, TRAI and IRDAI are in scope. These are roadmap recommendations rather than statute — we flag that distinction because it changes how you should treat the dates.

One thing worth understanding about the timing

“Deprecated” is not the same as “disallowed”. Running RSA-2048 in 2032 is inside the permitted window for legacy systems. What changes is how auditors, cyber insurers and procurement teams treat it — the period immediately after a deprecation date is when risk committees begin recording legacy algorithm use as a finding rather than a scheduled remediation item.

There is also a practical gap between the printed date and the operational one. Certificate authority lead times and PKI chain re-issuance mean the work has to be finished before the deadline, not on it. Gartner’s guidance is to treat 2029 as the working deadline for the 2030 dates.

Six engagements

The Q-Ready ladder.

Six engagements under one method. The order matters — each rung produces the input the next one needs, and you can stop at any of them. Most organisations should start at 01.

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Q-Ready Discovery

A systematic inventory of every cryptographic asset in your estate: algorithms, key lengths, certificates and certificate authorities, crypto libraries, protocols and TLS versions, and the third-party dependencies that quietly introduce their own. Across source code, cloud services, network and on-premises systems.

This is the phase with the nearest deadline and the longest lead time. It does not depend on the final CBOM format being settled — teams that map their cryptography now will be adjusting an existing inventory in 2027 rather than starting one against a deadline.

Named outputs
  • A machine-readable Cryptographic Bill of Materials
  • Risk matrix ranked by data sensitivity and harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure
  • Prioritised findings, each tied to the mandate and date it breaches
  • Two-page executive summary written for a board audience

Typically 4–6 weeks · For CISO, VP of IT, CTO

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Q-Ready Roadmap

A phased, sequenced and costed migration plan. Where most roadmaps map to one framework, ours maps simultaneously to every instrument that binds you — NIST IR 8547, EO 14412 and OMB M-26-15, CNSA 2.0 where it applies, and the NCSC 2028 / 2031 / 2035 phases.

If you operate across the UK and US, that multi-jurisdiction mapping is the difference between one plan and three that contradict each other.

Named outputs
  • Migration waves with dependencies and sequencing
  • Supplier and vendor readiness map, with the questions to put to each
  • Hardware root-of-trust and long-lived asset register
  • Investment profile by phase

Typically 4–8 weeks · For CISO, Head of Security Architecture

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Q-Ready Agility

The delivery work. An inventory tells you where your cryptographic dependencies live; agility determines how hard each one is to change. Without it, migration is a series of re-architecture projects instead of a series of configuration changes.

Hybrid TLS deployment, certificate and PKI re-keying including root and intermediate CA hierarchies, HSM assessment, removing hard-coded algorithm calls behind an abstraction, and PQC policy gates in your CI/CD pipeline so non-compliant code does not reach production.

Named outputs
  • Hybrid key establishment in a named set of services
  • Certificate lifecycle and re-keying runbook
  • Algorithm abstraction layer in your codebase
  • Automated cryptographic policy check in the build pipeline

Scoped per estate · For Head of Engineering, Security Architecture

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QKD Reality Check

An independent evaluation of any Quantum Key Distribution or QRNG proposal on your desk, assessed against current agency positions rather than vendor material.

The starting position is public: the NCSC does not endorse QKD for government or military applications, recommends PQC as the primary mitigation, and states that QKD use should not count as evidence toward data-in-transit security assessments under the Cyber Assessment Framework. The NSA does not support QKD for National Security Systems and it does not appear in CNSA 2.0. QKD provides no authentication, needs new physical infrastructure, and depends on trusted relay nodes.

There is a small set of architectures where it is defensible. We will tell you whether yours is one of them, in writing, and we have no QKD product to sell you either way.

Named outputs
  • Written architectural assessment against NCSC and NSA positions
  • Authentication dependency analysis — what still requires PQC regardless
  • A recommendation you can hand to procurement

Typically 2–3 weeks · For CISO, Enterprise Architecture, Procurement

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Q-Ready Workshop

Two days, hands-on, using your codebase as the working example rather than a toy repository. Day one covers the threat model and what quantum actually breaks, plus the NIST standards: ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA. Day two is implementation — hybrid TLS, certificate migration, and PQC checks in the pipeline.

Named outputs
  • Lab materials and code samples, yours to keep
  • A migration pattern chosen for your stack, not a generic one
  • 30 days of follow-up email support

2 days plus 30-day support · For CISO, Head of Engineering, L&D

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Quantum Threat Brief

A monthly briefing on what actually changed and what to do about it. Hardware progress, standards and regulatory movement, vulnerability disclosures — without the vendor press releases. Written to be forwarded to a leadership team without translation.

For clients who have completed discovery, this extends into continuous cryptographic posture monitoring: re-scanning as services deploy and certificates rotate, so the inventory does not go stale the month after it is delivered.

Named outputs
  • Monthly brief, 4–6 pages
  • A 30-minute strategy call each month
  • Ad-hoc email access for urgent questions

Monthly retainer · For CISO, VP of Security in regulated industries

How we work

Four rules, applied to every engagement.

1. An agreed baseline first

Before work starts we write down what “better” would mean and how it will be measured. Agreeing that baseline is the first deliverable, and everything after it is judged against it.

2. Bounded scope, named outputs

Every engagement has a defined end and a list of the specific artifacts you will hold at the end of it. No open-ended advisory retainers.

3. Benchmarked delivery

Where we propose a quantum or quantum-inspired method, it is measured against the classical method you use today. The comparison goes in the report whichever way it falls.

4. A documented verdict

Each engagement ends with a written recommendation to scale, improve or stop. “Stop” is a real option and we have no incentive to avoid it.

Tell us which rung you need. We’ll come back with a bounded scope, named outputs, and then the engagement model and pricing that fit it.

Scope a Q-Ready Discovery