Insider Brief
Microsoft is accelerating its Quantum Safe Program with a goal of moving critical products and services to post-quantum cryptography by 2029.
The company said the transition will require organizations to identify and update cryptography across networks, stored data, identity systems, certificates, software signing and hardware.
Microsoft said organizations should begin now by building cryptographic inventories, adopting modern protocols such as TLS 1.3 and designing systems that can change encryption methods with limited disruption.
Microsoft is moving up its deadline for quantum-safe security, a sign that major technology providers see the transition to new encryption as a near-term engineering problem rather than a distant risk. The announcement was in line with an earlier report on quantum research advances that supported its roadmap of developing a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029.
