🌐The Global Signals That Actually Mattered (3 - 9 August 2026) Brian C Founder & CEO, SITG-Consulting | Thought Leader & Forensic Strategist Quantum Risk, PQC, ERM, Compliance & Governance | Independent Validation | Board Advisor | Author | Quantum Risk Management 10 August 2026 This week's structural signal was theoretical provenance meeting sovereign procurement, moving on independent clocks. An Amazon Web Services cryptographer posted a preliminary polynomial-time quantum

Brian C Founder & CEO, SITG-Consulting | Thought Leader & Forensic Strategist Quantum Risk, PQC, ERM, Compliance & Governance | Independent Validation | Board Advisor | Author | Quantum Risk Management 3 August 2026 This week's structural signal was verification, not capability. Anthropic stated its AI model broke a NIST post-quantum signature candidate that had survived two full rounds of accredited human expert review; the algorithm's own developers confirmed the finding an

27 July 2026 This week the confirmed signal set was dominated by state and quasi-state actors building coordination infrastructure rather than by vendors announcing capability. Israel opened a funded tender for national quantum R&D infrastructure, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre convened its first joint government-industry PQC migration workshop, and Japan's government-backed research agency launched a fiscal-year-scheduled silicon quantum manufacturing programme. In

Brian C Founder & CEO, SITG-Consulting | Thought Leader & Forensic Strategist Quantum Risk, PQC, ERM, Compliance & Governance | Independent Validation | Board Advisor | Author | Quantum Risk Management July 20, 2026 This week the ecosystem moved from announcement to institutionalisation across three separate layers: standards, manufacturing and procurement. A code-based post-quantum algorithm reached ISO standardisation, giving the PQC landscape a second formal standards trac

Buried in a legal update this week was a signal that should concern every Board. Lawyers are now being trained on post-quantum cryptography, quantum evidence, AI-quantum convergence and Q-Day. Think about that. The legal profession is preparing for the consequences. Is your Board? Now imagine the cross-examination. "When did you become aware that quantum computing would eventually render your cryptography obsolete?" "You knew your regulators had already issued migration guida

FINMA's new guidance on Quantum Computing is welcome. It sends an important signal. Quantum risk is no longer a theoretical technology discussion. It is a governance and operational resilience issue that financial institutions are expected to address now. I agree with the direction of travel. Board-approved strategies, risk analysis, cryptographic inventories, crypto-agility and supplier management all deserve attention. However, I was struck by how extraordinarily light the

One of the questions we're asked more than any other is: "What actually happens during a Discovery Sprint?" This carousel answers that question. Rather than talking about methodology, we've opened the lid on a real engagement for an anonymised digital challenger bank. You'll see how assumptions are tested, how evidence is gathered, why cryptographic inventories rarely reconcile, and how governance failures become visible long before any discussion about post-quantum algorithm

#PQC and #Data: The Three #Cryptographic Domains Post-quantum risk is about the data being protected, not the algorithms themselves. Every cryptographic dependency maps to one of three data states. If you do not know which state you are protecting, you do not know what you are securing. #Data in #Motion Information moving across networks or channels. TLS sessions, VPN tunnels, 5G key agreement, SWIFT messages, API calls. Quantum relevance: interception and harvest. If the con

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

Science is doing exactly what science is supposed to do. A new peer-reviewed critique published in Nature has challenged aspects of Microsoft's Majorana-based quantum computing research, arguing that the evidence may not conclusively demonstrate the physics the company claims. Microsoft strongly disagrees and maintains its roadmap remains on track. This is not a story about Microsoft "failing." It is a reminder that extraordinary scientific claims invite extraordinary scienti

NIST CSF 2.0 may be one of the most important Quantum Readiness frameworks available today. Not because it contains a section on quantum computing. It doesn't. Not because it tells organisations which algorithms to deploy. It doesn't do that either. What CSF 2.0 does provide is something far more important. Governance. The 2024 update elevated governance to a core function, recognising that cybersecurity is no longer solely a technology challenge. It is a board, executive and

That should concern every board, regulator, CISO and risk committee still treating post-quantum cryptography as a distant technology problem. The United States has issued a new Executive Order accelerating PQC migration requirements. Notably: • PQC key establishment for High Value Assets by 31 December 2030 • PQC digital signatures for High Value Assets by 31 December 2031 This is the second major shift in federal timing expectations. That matters. Governments do not compress

#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