Secure your business so it can thrive in a post-quantum cryptography world with support from industry-leading experts
Embark on a smooth quantum-safe transformation journey
Advancements in quantum computing create countless positive opportunities for technological progress, but all progress inevitably brings brand new potential threats. Existing encryption algorithms such as RSA, which are being used to secure data and applications across industries, will become breakable in a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) environment.
Safeguarding your enterprise against PQC risks today is no longer a luxury, but a business imperative. However, this journey is highly complex and depends on the unique specifics of your organization. This is precisely where IBM Quantum Safe™ Transformation Services come in. Our experts will guide you, step by step, throughout your business’s quantum safe migration while understanding your processes, prioritizing your needs and creating scalable solutions for every challenge.
Three-phase transformation program
- Phase 1: Understading the risks
- Phase 2: Prepare for migration
- Phase 3: Execute the technology migration
Develop a comprehensive awareness program to educate stakeholders, including senior leadership, IT managers and cybersecurity professionals, about the landscape and potential risks of quantum computing.
Identify and evaluate business assets that rely on cryptographic algorithms, including systems, applications, digital certificates and cryptographic keys. Conduct a posture analysis to understand each asset’s business protection relevance and the required mitigation effort.
Create a detailed roadmap for quantum security initiatives, outlining the steps, timelines and resources needed for transitioning to quantum-resistant encryption methods.
Adapt existing policies and governance frameworks to incorporate quantum threats, including a risk management approach tailored for quantum computing risks.
Develop and experimentally test crypto-agile mitigation patterns that enable flexible adaptation to emerging cryptographic techniques as they emerge.
Integrate quantum-safe practices into CI/CD pipelines, establish quantum-safe development guardrails and ensure that new systems, including those involved in cloud migration, are built with quantum resilience from the outset.
Follow predefined and tested mitigation patterns such as patching or encapsulation to systematically update cryptographic protocols and ensure all systems transition smoothly to quantum-safe standards.
Use automation tools to run the migration at scale, ensuring consistent and efficient updates to cryptographic protocols across the organization.
Ensure that procurement policies reflect PQC requirements by mandating that all new systems and components are quantum safe by default. This process will secure your entire supply chain end to end.
IBM Quantum Safe Migration Orchestrator
Quantum computing threatens current cryptography, enabling “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks and creating cryptographic debt. Organizations starting quantum-safe transformation face complex dependencies across assets and services.
IBM Quantum Safe Migration Orchestrator (QSMO) is an AI-powered platform that prioritizes cryptographic risks, maps IT components, analyzes constraints and recommends remediation patterns. It transforms visibility into orchestration, linking exposures to critical assets and tracking progress continuously. IBM QSMO complements existing crypto discovery tools by providing actionable workflows and systematic remediation, helping enterprises navigate multi-step transformations across intricate IT environments.
Supports risk-based migration by discovering cryptographic threats related to high-value enterprise assets and data, helping organizations prioritize remediation efforts where they have the greatest impact. This process ensures that security investments are aligned with business risk, not just technical exposure.
Delivers enterprise-wide visibility into cryptographic assets, uncovering hidden dependencies across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This approach helps organizations better understand risk posture and streamline remediation across systems.
Uses AI-driven planning to create customized and multi-phase migration strategies that balance performance, interoperability and regulatory compliance. This process ensures that migrations are both technically sound and aligned with long-term business objectives.
Strategic partnerships
Entrust
Entrust protects people, devices, and data for safe, seamless digital experiences. With identity‑centric security across the identity lifecycle, Entrust helps fight fraud and reduce risk to support customers in securing critical moments of trust. Through its Cryptographic Security Platform, trust services, PKI, and hardware security modules, Entrust provides a strong foundation for enterprise cryptography and data protection, preparing organizations for the post-quantum era.
