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The first systems to break under quantum pressure are not the ones protecting confidential information. They are the ones establishing trust: the digital signatures, certificate chains, and authentication mechanisms that determine who is allowed to do what. When those systems are compromised, the failure is silent. A forged certificate validates cleanly. A spoofed signature passes every check. The existing detection tools were not built to catch this.
The threat does not start or end with quantum. For decades, organizations treated cryptographic infrastructure as permanent: algorithms chosen at deployment, embedded across applications and platforms, then forgotten until an audit forced attention. That model no longer holds.
Machine identities now outnumber human users by orders of magnitude. APIs carry the operational fabric of digital business. Cloud-native workloads authenticate continuously. AI agents negotiate trust relationships at machine speed. Every one depends on cryptographic primitives spread across systems, libraries, and hardware that most organizations cannot fully inventory, let alone update on demand.
NIST finalized its first post-quantum standards in 2024, and the conversation has moved from "should we prepare" to "demonstrate readiness." Crypto-agility is the answer: not a product or a one-time migration project, but the organizational and technical capability to adapt cryptographic systems continuously, safely, and at scale.
Alexei Balaganski, Lead Analyst and CTO at KuppingerCole Analysts, will provide the strategic and architectural framework for this session. He will examine why most organizations remain unprepared for cryptographic transition, what a sustainable crypto-agility program requires in operational terms, and how to move from cryptographic inventory and dependency mapping to governance and automation at enterprise scale. He frames post-quantum migration not as a standalone project but as one trigger within a broader, permanent need for continuous cryptographic adaptation.
Bryant D. Nielson, CEO of the Quantum Core Institute, will bring specialist depth on the quantum threat landscape and its concrete implications for enterprise architecture. He will examine how quantum computing undermines existing trust mechanisms, where the identity stack is most exposed today, and what organizations need to understand about the nature and timeline of quantum risk to make sound near-term decisions. He grounds the discussion in the technical realities of post-quantum algorithms, and what adopting them means for day-to-day security operations
Who Should Attend
This webinar is designed for security and technology leaders responsible for cryptographic infrastructure, identity architecture, and regulatory compliance. It is especially relevant for CISOs, identity and PKI architects, certificate and secrets management teams, and engineers accountable for API-driven or cloud-native environments. Risk and compliance officers navigating the emerging post-quantum regulatory landscape will find the webinar directly actionable.
