Brian C Founder & CEO, SITG-Consulting | Thought Leader & Forensic Strategist Quantum Risk, PQC, ERM, Compliance & Governance | Independent Validation | Board Advisor | Author | Quantum Risk Management 17 August 2026 This week closed a loop opened the week before and started several new ones. Nine days after an AWS cryptographer's preliminary algorithm reopened questions about the mathematics beneath ML-KEM, a formal, machine-checked refutation from researchers at MIT, Stanfo

🌐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

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