Brian C Founder & CEO, SITG-Consulting | Thought Leader & Forensic Strategist Quantum Risk, PQC, ERM, Compliance & Governance | Independent Validation | Board Advisor | Author | Quantum Risk Management 24 August 2026 This was a week in which post-quantum cryptography stopped being a standards conversation and became a procurement, assurance and deployment conversation across three continents simultaneously. A Canadian module cleared the highest independent hardware validation

For many years we have run cryptographic module readiness reviews inside larger governance and assurance engagements. It was never a named line item. It was the work done before a vendor spent money at a testing laboratory, so the money was not wasted. We have now formalised it as a defined service: the SITG FIPS 140-3 Gap Analysis. The context is a hard deadline. FIPS 140-2 certificates sunset on 21 September 2026 and move to the Historical List. From that date, a module wit

A half-year read on where FIPS 140-3 validation actually stands. Between January and mid-July 2026, 30 new FIPS 140-3 certificates were issued or announced across non-hyperscaler, non-tier-1 vendors, spanning HSMs, authentication, cryptographic libraries, edge/IoT and embedded modules. With FIPS 140-2 fully retiring on 21 September 2026, this is no longer a future consideration. It's active, measurable, and already reshaping vendor selection. This SITG-Consulting Thematic Rev