Security News > 2023 > November > Crypto asset discovery and the post-quantum migration
NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, is leading a process to create and standardize new encryption algorithms to replace RSA and ECC. The new algorithms rely on mathematical approaches that are not easily broken by quantum or classical computers.
In December of 2022, US President Joe Biden signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act which mandates timelines for moving government systems to PQC algorithms.
CNSA 2.0 mandates timeliness for migration to PQC algorithms for all National Security Systems, creating urgency to companies selling solutions to the US government.
Inventory of crypto assets Evaluation of risk and prioritization of systems to migrate to PQC. Migration plan for internal systems.
For an organization of any scale, this requires a crypto discovery tool that can monitor network traffic and detect what encryption algorithms are used, who is using them, and how they are configured.
Once the crypto inventory is complete, companies can begin planning how they will migrate these systems to PQC algorithms.