Fortifying security for a post-quantum future
Assessment, strategy and infrastructure modernization for post-quantum cryptography
Security at the speed of quantum
As early as 2029, according to predictions by Gartner and other industry advisors and leaders, quantum computers could be able to break current encryption within seconds. This means a major security risk for organizations’ digital infrastructure that uses cryptography. To protect sensitive data, organizations need to implement post-quantum cryptography to bolster encryption.
Protecting your most important business assets takes a proactive security approach. Modern encryption is currently sufficient because it would take classical computers hundreds of years to reverse engineer mathematical factorization to crack codes. Quantum computers don’t have these limitations, as they could attain exponential parallel computing capabilities using quantum mechanics. This makes them faster at solving certain complex computations while at the same time posing a threat to modern encryption.
With quantum computing power, adversaries could break the strongest asymmetric encryption we currently use to secure our data. While we don’t know exactly when, we know it will happen and put unprepared organizations at risk.
This poses a great challenge to organizations’ overall cybersecurity posture. In a method called “harvest now, decrypt later,” cybercriminals are stealing and storing encrypted data, intending to decrypt it once quantum computing capabilities make that possible. Assess the risk and plan for it now to prepare.
Drawing on crypto expertise, post-quantum cryptography services at Unisys can help you modernize before the threat is imminent and talent with crypto expertise is scarce. Acting now can give you a first-mover business advantage.
Take steps to help prevent encryption breaches from quantum attacks. Protect your brand reputation and reduce the risk of business loss and data recovery costs.
Protecting today’s encryption from future risks
Quantum computing will fundamentally change the cybersecurity landscape. Organizations that take proactive steps now will be better positioned to protect their critical assets when quantum attacks become a reality.
Here are the key areas to address:
Cryptographic posture assessment
You need to discover and inventory your cryptographic posture to prepare for post-quantum cryptography. Take a data-centric approach and evaluate the lifespan of the data you want to secure against a quantum threat timeline. It serves as a cornerstone of quantum defense from impending quantum attacks.
Post-quantum cryptography strategy
Your organization aims to reduce the risks from a future when cybercriminals use quantum computing to crack previously secure cryptographic systems. Strategic roadmaps can help you make a smoother transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by analyzing your cryptographic landscape, quantum threat risk level and contextualized time pressure.
Quantum key management
You want to protect the cryptographic keys needed for encryption, key distribution and authentication. Quantum-resistant key exchange and key management can safeguard your business-critical data and communications from quantum-based attacks.
Infrastructure modernization
Your organization seeks to address the limits of existing cryptographic infrastructures. Modernizing can help you achieve this objective by identifying and deploying hybrid quantum-safe solutions that are compatible with your existing infrastructure, reducing downtime to business operations during post-quantum cryptography transition.
Crypto agility services
Locating and updating cryptography quickly across your IT landscape is crucial to staying ahead of new regulations. It also helps you adopt evolving cryptographic standards and comply with regulatory requirements. Crypto agility services let you stay ahead of potential risks and keep cryptographic infrastructure adaptive and resilient.
Let’s explore practical approaches to achieving these objectives through solutions that ready your organization for the future of quantum computers.
Deep dive: our post-quantum cryptography services
Cryptographic posture assessment
Fortifying your organization to handle post-quantum cryptography risks starts with an assessment of your current readiness. This includes discovering and identifying all cryptographic assets in your digital enterprise and analyzing the current state of your cryptographic systems. By doing this, you identify vulnerabilities to quantum attacks, enabling prompt action to strengthen your defenses. Unisys can guide you through this assessment and then provide actionable insights to help you strengthen your cryptographic defenses. Our experts can also map your cryptography to asset sensitivity in your business context and identify interoperability and dependency challenges in your use of encryption.
Post-quantum cryptography strategy
Past cryptographic migrations spanned decades. With quantum threats on the horizon, organizations must get their PQC transition strategy and roadmap right the first time.
Unisys strategy services deliver analysis into identified assets and post-quantum cryptography modernization paths, interoperability and organizational constraints. Our experts tailor a post-quantum cryptography roadmap to your specific needs and business objectives to help you prioritize your plan in addressing these considerations.
Build crypto agility with Unisys’ expert guidance and best practices. The necessary forward-thinking approach is possible with the custom post-quantum cryptography strategy we develop for you.
Quantum key management
Protecting your digital infrastructure requires robust management of cryptographic keys. These keys must be handled with stringent security measures to help prevent unauthorized access and protect your data.
Unisys quantum key management supports the handling of both classical and quantum-resistant encryption keys that protect your data in the quantum era. Our services implement quantum-resistant key management protocols designed to generate, distribute and store these cryptographic keys securely for quantum resiliency.
Unisys helps you safeguard your sensitive data with advanced quantum security solutions. Crypto agility is easier when you have centralized, orderly and consistent key management.
Infrastructure modernization
Achieving quantum resiliency takes implementing hybrid infrastructure solutions or transitioning completely to modern PQC algorithms to address business needs. Historically, these implementations spanned decades, requiring organizations to comprehensively plan and implement projects to achieve higher success rates. Unisys cybersecurity experts can manage these complex infrastructure modernization programs and facilitate a smoother transition to quantum resiliency.
We implement post-quantum infrastructure modernization with a holistic approach tailored to your business needs.
Crypto agility services
Fortifying your organization against unexpected events and unknown threats in the quantum computing era takes crypto agility. This lets you adapt to evolving cryptographic mechanisms, algorithms and key management practices quickly with minimal disruption to your overall infrastructure.
Crypto agility will be key to quantum resistance, where the goal is to make progress rather than aim for perfection.
Benefits of implementing post-quantum cryptography
The exact arrival time of quantum computers capable of cracking current encryption remains uncertain, but the best defense against it is to prepare now. Unisys’ post-quantum cryptography services portfolio provides fast response and a low-risk path to post-quantum cryptography readiness.
Our holistic, data-centric and custom-tailored approach delivers a turnkey experience that helps give every aspect of this challenge the attention it deserves. Recognized by leading industry analysts for our innovative solutions and services, Unisys delivers several advantages when choosing a partner for post-quantum cryptography services and support:
Life cycle approach:
Benefit from expertise across the entire post-quantum cryptography modernization life cycle, including attention to organizational change management and user experience.
Expertise and understanding:
Gain a partner that is a post-quantum cryptography early adopter for our own and multiple client programs, speeding your path to post-quantum readiness.
Holistic insight:
Consolidate and simplify sourcing by tapping the secure-by-design Unisys approach to provide support across workplace, cloud, applications and enterprise computing, reducing risks on complex projects.
Comprehensive cybersecurity approach:
Secure your organization with post-quantum cryptography services and capabilities embedded in a comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio.
Solutions at a glance
Unisys cybersecurity capabilities and services help organizations address the essential steps of implementing post-quantum cryptography.
These capabilities span our entire portfolio, and our experts help protect you from the “harvest now, decrypt later” mindset of cybercriminals.
- Analyze your organization’s post-quantum readiness
- Prepare preemptively for a future where cybercriminals can quickly break modern encryption
- Reduce potential losses due to a breach
- Protect sensitive data that could be at risk
- Manage quantum keys effectively
- Cryptographic posture assessment
- Post-quantum cryptography strategy
- Quantum key management
- Infrastructure modernization
- Crypto agility services
- Digital infrastructure prepared for quantum attacks
- Streamlined transition with minimal disruption
- Consolidated and simplified sourcing with global workforce
- Smooth organizational change and user experience
- Post-quantum cryptography first-mover advantage
- Access to extensive expertise in cybersecurity and quantum technology
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