Prioritizing systems, working toward “crypto agility,” and procuring compliant tools are among the actions officials highlight for post-quantum cryptography readiness.
"For the first time in history, the civilian government, we have a comprehensive inventory of our asymmetric cryptography across all the agencies and their critical systems," said…
By creating these standards, NIST is moving closer to its goal of, eventually, sharing these algorithms publicly — which would allow organizations to incorporate them into their…
Agencies are finally starting to take the threat of quantum computers to their sensitive data seriously, but the task of inventorying vulnerable systems remains daunting.