PQC & Quantum Migration • PQ-11
Governance & Reporting
Keep a multi-year cryptographic programme honest between milestones.
Scope
What the engagement covers.
Long programmes drift when nobody owns the algorithm decisions. This service establishes the standing governance, metrics and reporting that keep migration measurable and auditable.
Included capabilities
- Cryptographic governance body, charter and decision rights
- Algorithm standard with approved, deprecated and prohibited lists
- Migration metrics, dashboards and wave progress reporting
- Exception process with expiry dates and compensating controls
- Regulatory and audit evidence pack maintenance
Outputs and deliverables
- Cryptographic governance charter and decision rights
- Algorithm standard with lifecycle status
- Migration metrics dashboard specification
- Quarterly programme and exception reports
Workflow
How it is delivered, step by step.
Each step has an owner, an entry condition and an artefact that has to exist before the next step begins.
01CharterEstablish the body, membership, mandate and decision rights.
02StandardizePublish the algorithm standard and exception process.
03MeasureDefine metrics and connect them to live inventory data.
04ReportQuarterly progress, risk and exception reporting to committee.
05ReviewAnnual standard revision against evolving guidance.
Use cases
Where this is typically applied.
Regulated entities needing demonstrable cryptographic oversight
Groups coordinating migration across independent subsidiaries
Delivery model
The operating pattern for PQC & Quantum Migration.
The same delivery discipline applies across every capability in this line, so combined engagements stay coherent.
Discover
Find every certificate, key, library, protocol and hardware dependency.
Prioritize
Rank by harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure, data life and migration effort.
Design
Hybrid profiles, agility interfaces, PKI and key lifecycle target state.
Migrate
Waves, pilots, fallback paths, exception handling and change control.
Operate
Posture monitoring, algorithm governance, revalidation and reporting.
Integration
- Certificate lifecycle management and PKI platforms already in place.
- HSM estate, key management services and cloud KMS.
- CI/CD pipelines, so crypto inventory stays current as code ships.
- Asset and configuration management for device and endpoint coverage.
Engagement approach
Most clients begin with discovery and risk mapping as a contained first phase, because nothing else can be planned credibly without an inventory. Migration then runs in waves aligned to certificate renewal and platform refresh cycles rather than as a separate programme.
Related
Other capabilities in PQC & Quantum Migration.
PQ-01
Cryptographic Discovery
You cannot migrate cryptography you cannot find.
PQ-02CBOM / SBOM Enrichment
Extend the software bill of materials until it answers cryptographic questions.
PQ-03HNDL / TNFL Risk Assessment
Rank migration by the data that is already being collected against you.
PQ-04Crypto-Agility Architecture
Design so the next algorithm change is a configuration decision, not a rebuild.
PQ-05Hybrid PQC Migration
Run classical and post-quantum together until the ecosystem is ready to drop one.
PQ-06PKI Modernization
Rebuild the certificate authority estate so it can issue what comes next.
PQ-07Digital Signature Migration
Protect signatures that must remain verifiable for decades.
PQ-08Secure Communication Migration
Make the channels quantum-safe without breaking the people who use them.
PQ-09IoT / OT PQC Migration
The hardest estate: constrained devices with long lives and no easy update path.
PQ-10PQC Test Lab & Validation
A place to break things before production does it for you.
PQ-12Training & Capability Transfer
Leave the client able to run the programme without the consultant.