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How Would Q-Day Actually Unfold? Not a Breach You Patch
Q-Day is not a breach you can patch. It is a condition you prepared for or did not. What unfolds, who is exposed and why incident response does not apply.
Brian Couzens
1 hour ago8 min read
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The PQC Readiness Assessment Evidence Gap: Why Aspiration Is Not Assurance
The post-quantum cryptography transition has moved beyond debate. NIST finalised FIPS 203, 204, and 205 in August 2024. NSA's CNSA 2.0 suite mandates signing migration by 2027, full deprecation by 2030, and prohibition by 2035. Executive Order 14412 directs US federal agencies to accelerate cryptographic inventory and migration planning. The EU, through NIS2 and DORA, has embedded cryptographic risk management into binding regulatory frameworks. PQC readiness assessments have
Brian Couzens
Oct 93 min read
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PQC Readiness Assessment
Independent Design Review Before Board Approval A PQC Readiness Assessment is an independent, evidence-based review of an organisation's post-quantum cryptography strategy, its cryptographic estate, its third-party exposure and its migration readiness. It happens before implementation. Not after. The party designing a PQC programme may also be the party hoping to build it. That is not a compliance failure. It is a structural condition. No one inside that arrangement has the s
Brian Couzens
Aug 118 min read
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