Security leaders and industry experts discussed how enterprises can prepare for the post-quantum era while ensuring business continuity.

Atlanta and Stockholm, October 27, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- Keyfactor Today, we announce the launch of a new film produced by Cybercrime Magazine and sponsored by Keyfactor, which focuses on how organizations can prepare for the transition to post-quantum cryptography ( PQC ). The film brings together perspectives from Chief Information Security Officers ( CISO ) from Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, cybersecurity leaders, and cryptography experts.

Quantum computing will pose challenges to encryption technologies that are used to protect corporate data, systems, and machine identities. Preparation efforts should be driven by business risks, rather than predictions about when the so-called “Q-Day” will arrive. Q-Day refers to the point in time when quantum computers will be able to crack widely used public key cryptography. Enterprises need to clarify responsibility assignments, understand their own exposure levels, and develop plans to coordinate changes throughout the company.

The PQC standards and government migration requirements provide a clearer basis for enterprises to take action. The executive order from the White House further highlights the urgency of this transformation, requiring federal agencies to migrate the keys of high-value assets and high-impact systems to PQC by the end of 2030, and to complete the migration of digital signatures by the end of 2031.

CISO Chris Hickman stated: "The PQC migration is a multi-year plan, not a project that ends on day Q. It requires support from senior management, clear division of responsibilities, and priorities that are aligned with business risks. Enterprises need to understand where encryption technology is being used, what it protects, and where the greatest risks lie, in order to develop a plan that can be implemented across the systems and teams that rely on it."

Keyfactor helps enterprises transition from the awareness phase of PQC to coordinated migration and sustained password agility. Keyfactor provides professional cryptographic capabilities and top-tier solutions, assisting enterprises in moving from planning to execution in PQC. Its open platform integrates password discovery, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and signing functions, helping teams identify vulnerabilities, modernize infrastructure, and coordinate migrations in complex environments. These capabilities together constitute password agility, enabling enterprises to adapt as standards, technologies, and threats evolve.

Keyfactor Chief Technology Officer Ted Shorter stated: "The revolution in cryptography will not stop at PQC. Building enterprises with cryptographic agility now will better enable them to adapt to standard evolution and the emergence of new threats. This preparation is crucial for continuing to protect digital trust after the PQC transformation."

The experts who appear in the short film, in order of appearance, include:

• Ted Shorter, Keyfactor Chief Technology Officer
• Chris Hickman, Keyfactor Chief Security Officer
• Diane Janosek, former NSA Training Director, National Cryptography School
• Georgianna Shea, author of "Post - Quantum Leadership"
• Theresa Payton, former Chief Information Officer of the White House
• Adam Keown, Eastman Chief Information Security Officer

This video can be watched on the YouTube channel of Cybercrime Magazine. Watch link: https :// www.keyfactor.com / post-quantum-cryptography-lab / post-quantum-future /.

About Keyfactor

Keyfactor is a leader in trust infrastructure for artificial intelligence and machines. This platform helps enterprises manage machine identities and encryption technologies that ensure the security of every digital interaction. By integrating dispersed tools and assets into a single control plane, security teams can monitor their encryption environments, identify and fix risk exposures, deploy compliant and quantum-resistant encryption technologies, and issue encrypted identities for each machine, workload, and AI. Keyfactor is highly trusted by large enterprises and government agencies, providing the resilience necessary for organizations to operate continuously and stably in the AI era and beyond, including the quantum era.

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