SITG‑Consulting Review & Dissection 𝐀 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐘𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐑 The European Payments Council has released EPC342‑08 v16.0.1, its 2026 update on cryptographic algorithm usage and key‑management practices. This deck provides SITG‑Consulting’s independent review and dissection of the document - what it gets right, where it stops, and the enterprise‑level gaps it leaves unaddressed. Necessary, but not sufficient. This is ou

Brian Couzens Founder & CEO, SITG-Consulting | Forensic Strategist | Cyber Resilience, Quantum Risk & Governance | Transformation, ERM & Independent Validation | Writer | White Paper Author | Evidence-Based Decision Making June 29, 2026 This week featured an unusually dense cluster of consequential announcements across PQC governance, quantum hardware, capital formation, and infrastructure standardisation. The United States signed two executive orders simultaneously on 22 Jun

#Moody's may have delivered one of the most important post-quantum signals of 2026. Not because of a breakthrough in quantum computing. Not because of a new cryptographic standard. Because a global credit rating agency has started discussing Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) as a budgetary, governance and enterprise risk issue. For many years, this has been the position of SITG-Consulting. Our Quantum Risk White Paper, first published in 2024, revised in December 2025 and again

Three post-quantum KEMs now sit inside one of the principal international standards for asymmetric encryption: ML-KEM, Classic McEliece and FrodoKEM. Read that again. Not one algorithm. Three. From three different mathematical families. Why this matters before the detail. A standards body had a choice. It could have ratified the market's preferred answer, ML-KEM, and closed the question. It did not. It standardised a structured lattice scheme, an unstructured lattice scheme a