The gist: Organizations require cross-industry collaboration and standardized approaches to successfully implement the migration to post-quantum cryptography.
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has conducted a workshop on migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and warns: no organization can manage this transition in isolation. The findings are aimed at organizations that must protect their systems against future quantum computer risks.
The NCSC held its first workshop on post-quantum cryptography, bringing together experts from various organizations to discuss the challenges of cryptographic migration. The workshop’s key finding is: isolated implementation is not feasible.
For CISOs, this means that PQC migration is not merely a technical task within their own organization, but requires coordinated effort across organizational boundaries. Supply chains, interfaces with partner systems, and dependencies on suppliers must be coordinated. The workshop identified which critical dependencies exist and how organizations can navigate them.
The NCSC’s documentation of the workshop offers concrete recommendations for planning and implementing PQC migrations, including checklists for inventorying cryptographic methods, roadmap development, and communication requirements with external partners and suppliers.
The insight that standardization and cross-industry exchange are necessary is also supported by NIS2: organizations must continuously adapt their security measures to future threats, including quantum computing scenarios. The workshop report thereby supports the regulatory requirement for proactive risk management.
Source: www.ncsc.gov.uk · Published 22 July 2026
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