SITG-Consulting’s BRICS-11 report finds no state at Tier 1 and examines why cryptographic capability, migration governance and cross-border interoperability must be treated separately.

On 15 September 2026, Malaysia's National Security Council (Majlis Keselamatan Negara), an agency of the Prime Minister's Department, confirmed Malaysia as the only ASEAN member state at Tier 1 for post-quantum cryptography migration readiness. The assessment behind that finding is SITG-Consulting's ASEAN Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness 2026: An Empirical Assessment of the ASEAN-10, published on 1 September. The statement and the report were reported by: Bernama, Malaysia

At the MY Digital Trust Summit 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, a speaker could not make the morning session. We were asked to fill fifteen minutes on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for a non-specialist audience, at short notice. No slides. No preparation. Just a stand-up talk for three hundred people, from an ASEAN perspective, in plain English. We call it the backfill session. Watch the full talk Watch on YouTube: Post-Quantum Cryptography in Plain English — MY Digital Trust Summit 2