By Fernando Montenegro
Publication Date: 2026-10-28 00:00:00
IBM has launched IBM Quantum Safe, a suite that frames the migration to post-quantum cryptography as a series of waves of work under continuous governance. We see the right model, though crypto agility is built in the organization, and containment and internal PKI remain the harder work.
What Is Covered in This Article:
- IBM Quantum Safe brings strategy, discovery, assessment, remediation, and governance together into a single suite of three offerings.
- Crypto agility is an organizational capability, and survey data suggests buyers still treat the migration as a project.
- Prioritization should follow the length of time data must remain secret, starting with asymmetric cryptography.
- Discovery never finishes, so containment and bridging for systems that will not migrate matter less than inventory.
- IBM’s migration of its own products, and CBOM disclosure for them, may matter to customers as much as the suite…
