Australia has moved from awareness to structured execution under the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) guidance. It is not the loudest, but it is the most disciplined in the Five Eyes on migration planning. 1. National Mandate: ASD and ACSC’s PQC Transition Framework The ACSC’s Planning for Post Quantum Cryptography guidance (2022–2025) sets a three stage LATICE based timeline: Refined transition plan by end 2026 Migration begun

The disclosure of 73,932 compromised Fortinet firewall URLs is not just another VPN incident. It is a cryptographic governance failure at global scale and a perfect illustration of why organisations must treat HNDL (Harvest Now, Decrypt Later) and HNFL (Harvest Now, Forge Later) as present-tense operational risks rather than abstract quantum-era hypotheticals. The incident was empirically documented by Volodymyr "Bob" Diachenko, who discovered the attacker-controlled server c