Why CIOs must pivot to post-quantum cryptography now
Executive Take
Data you encrypt today could be stolen now and decrypted in a decade. If your data needs to stay secret past 2030, start migrating it this year, not after NIST's deadline.
Executive Summary
NIST has finalized post-quantum cryptography standards (FIPS 203, 204, 205) and set a timeline to deprecate RSA and ECC encryption by 2030, removing them from standards by 2035. The article urges CIOs to begin migration now, citing "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks where adversaries store encrypted data today to decrypt once quantum computers can break it. It cites HPE and NVIDIA as infrastructure and compute partners for the transition.
Why It Matters
Technology and cybersecurity leaders need to inventory where RSA and ECC encryption live across their systems before 2030. Long-lived sensitive data in healthcare, finance, and defense is already exposed to future decryption even if no breach has happened yet.
Bizquad Perspective
Most leaders treat this as an IT patch when it's actually a data classification problem: the real work is deciding which data must survive past 2030, not picking an algorithm.