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Adversaries capturing encrypted traffic today to decrypt once capable quantum computers exist, most consequential for long-confidentiality data.
Forescout found post-quantum-capable SSH on 6% of IoMT and 16% of medical OT devices in a 2.5 million-device study of over 50 healthcare organizations. With long device lifecycles and few upgrade paths, hospitals are left planning around segmentation.
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The G7 Cyber Security Working Group's June call to action says the quantum threat is off the radar and under-resourced at most organizations, and it hands CISOs the wording to fund a cryptographic inventory this cycle.
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AWS and Microsoft are already shipping ML-KEM hybrid groups, so the question for platform teams is whether the old proxy, SDK and appliance in the path still complete a handshake that got bigger.
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Google said faster progress in quantum hardware and error correction moved its migration to 2029. A Caltech, Berkeley and Oratomic paper published the same month put the qubits needed for Shor's algorithm as low as 10,000.
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Post-quantum standards were finalised in August 2024, and NIST means to phase out most quantum-vulnerable algorithms by 2035. For banks the harder problem is finding every place RSA and ECC are written into application code.
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InfoQ's Spring Boot walkthrough puts ML-KEM and ML-DSA behind the standard JCE on JDK 24. That retires the library argument and leaves the migration gated on where a private key lives and how long your service tokens do.
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A Forbes Tech Council argument for urgency leans on benchmarks that were never factoring runs. The part of it that survives scrutiny is still enough to justify the spend.
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Axiad's survey finds 75% of enterprises say they maintain a live cryptographic inventory while 46% have no single owner for post-quantum migration. That is an org chart problem, not a math problem.
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