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PQC Readiness Audit

Conduct PQC Audit for Your EnterpriseInfrastructure

From cryptographic systems to enterprise applications, and from cloud environments to your on-premise infrastructure, get a comprehensive PQC risk assessment done on the entire scope of your organization before it’s too late. Remember, the quantum threat looming ahead is not just limited to blockchains. It is already expanding across industries with real-world implications for data security and critical systems.

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Understand Your Exposure Before Quantum Does

Your data encryption has an expiry date. With quantum computing on the horizon, you are looking at a decade (at max) to stay safe in this current cryptographic paradigm. Afterwards, you can expect direct quantum-enabled attacks on your core infrastructure, which of course can cause system-wide compromise to sensitive data and critical operations, with long-term exposure risks for the integrity and confidentiality of enterprise systems, which is irreversible once exploited.

DHRP is prepared to offer you a comprehensive, enterprise-grade solution in the form of a structured PQC risk assessment. What we do is identify, assess, and map vulnerabilities for the full scope of your cryptographic infrastructure, which results in a clear, actionable roadmap toward quantum readiness.

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What’s Australia's PQC Transition Timeline?

The Australian Signals Directorate guides a staged approach to transition to post-quantum cryptography. Organisations should think about their environment, risk appetite, dependencies and the value and sensitivity of data when establishing transition priorities.

  • By 2026: Develop a mature plan to transition to PQC, considering security objectives, risk appetite, dependencies and data value.
  • By 2028: Initiate the transition with systems or data that are critical or important, such as those with the most sensitive or long-lived data, and systems that might be challenging or time-consuming to update.
  • By the end of 2030: The PQC transition is completed.
  • After 2030: Keep on monitoring and validating implementation of PQC as technology and threats evolve.

This timeline is subject to change based on Australian guidance on the subject of ASD and changing cryptographic standards.

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What a PQC Assessment Will Expose in Your IT Infrastructure

As a business leader, you may assume that quantum risk is limited to emerging technologies like blockchains. The implications are far broader. In fact, quantum risk is already inside your systems – ready to compromise your critical operations.

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Unknown Dependencies:

Many companies believe their infrastructure is secure because of modern encryption standards. However, the lack of visibility is a problem here. Hidden encryption is embedded across multiple systems and third-party tools, and it can be difficult to track for the purpose of risk assessment.

Legacy Systems with Hardcoded Risk:

Just because your data is on secure servers, doesn't mean you are protected. Older infrastructure often relies on outdated cryptographic standards that cannot be upgraded or replaced, which actually puts you at a greater risk of breach.

Unmapped Data Flows & Exposure Points:

The biggest problem is the security of distributed sensitive data. Your enterprise systems, clouds, and remote endpoints are at risk of interception and exploitation by quantum attacks because this is where data is constantly moving.

On-Premise Server:

The offline stored data of your organisation may seem completely secure. However, quantum computers can break encryption and gain access with the power of advanced computation, which puts your company at risk of getting exposed in seconds.

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How PQC Readiness Audit Works

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Our PQC readiness assessment employs a methodical approach to evaluate your existing infrastructure, pinpoint possible quantum-related hazards, and assist you in comprehending the actions required to get your business ready for post-quantum security.

Initial Consultation & Data Collection:

You start by filling out our contact form and connecting with our team. We then gather key details and insights about your company's infrastructure, enterprise systems, data flows, and the existing security architecture.

Comprehensive Organizational Audit:

After the initial data collection, we conduct a full-scale PQC assessment of your organization across your entire infrastructure. In this step, we analyze your cryptographic systems, enterprise applications, networks, and third-party dependencies.

Risk Evaluation & Mapping:

Based on our PQC audit, we map your organization’s exposure points across systems and also identify the critical system touchpoints. We also pinpoint the infrastructure-level weaknesses of your systems for the future.

Recommendations & Roadmap:

Based on our assessment findings, we then provide you with a detailed set of actionable recommendations. Along with that, we also deliver you a clearly structured roadmap toward quantum readiness.

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Why Should I Get DHRP’s PQC Audit?

Your company can better understand its present cryptography exposure and pinpoint areas where future quantum-related risks could impact vital systems, applications, data, and dependencies by conducting a PQC audit. The evaluation from DHRP offers useful information to assist with security planning and assist your company get ready to switch to post-quantum encryption.

Full Infrastructure Visibility:

Utilize the power of PQC readiness audit to gain a thorough understanding of where cryptography exists across your systems, enterprise applications, and third-party dependencies.

Early Risk Identification:

Detect hidden vulnerabilities with cryptography audit checklist way before quantum threats become operational, and thus, reduce the risk of sudden system-wide compromise.

Stronger Decision-Making:

Equip your organization’s leadership with clear visibility and insights through our comprehensive PQC audit so that you can make informed security and infrastructure investments.

Protection of Sensitive Data:

Safeguard your company’s critical data, secure communications, and business-critical operations from future decryption risks and exposure.

Actionable Insights:

Get clarity with 24/7 customer support, and move beyond generic reports with DHRP’s clear, prioritized PQC compliance audit tailored to your entire infrastructure.

Compliance Readiness:

Stay ahead of emerging PQC compliance and cryptography audit requirements while also meeting evolving industry expectations via proactive assessment.

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What is Your PQC Audit Going to Tell You?

  • The locations of traditional asymmetric cryptography in your environment
  • What apps, infrastructure and third-party dependencies might need addressing
  • What security systems are used to safeguard sensitive or long-term data?
  • Any challenges that may make PQC migration more difficult with legacy technology
  • Which systems should be prioritised for transition
  • What to look out for concerning cryptographic dependencies discussed with vendors
  • What should your big plan for transition to PQC include?

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Current Standards Used For Post-Quantum Cryptography

PQC is no longer just a research subject. NIST finalised three post-quantum cryptography standards in 2024: FIPS 203 for ML-KEM, FIPS 204 for ML-DSA and FIPS 205 for SLH-DSA. Organisations are encouraged to get started transitioning systems to quantum-resistant cryptography, with continued efforts to standardise.

Australian organisations have ASD guidance on the use of approved cryptographic algorithms, key sizes and parameters through the Information Security Manual. Any technology or implementation recommendations should be evaluated based on the requirements of the organisation and its environment.

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The PQC audit will include a review of all the places where traditional cryptography is currently deployed within an organisation's technology landscape and the potential risks or dependencies that could impact a transition to post-quantum cryptography. It can analyse applications, cloud services and infrastructure, hardware, operational technology and third-party dependencies. The assessment can be used to highlight systems and data that could be considered for prioritisation. It can then enable a wider PQC transition strategy.

It's not clear when a quantum computer could be cryptographically useful, and the migration could be lengthy. Organisations might also have legacy systems, vendor dependencies, and sensitive data with long lifetimes that complicate the transition. This refined PQC transition plan is recommended by Australian guidance to be in place by the end of 2026. It also advises starting the transition of critical systems and data by the end of 2028 and transitioning all systems and data by the end of 2030.

It can include cryptographic algorithms, protocols, libraries, configurations and dependencies across applications, cloud services, hardware, and operational technology. It may also be used to consider authentication, digital signatures and data in transit using traditional asymmetric cryptography. The assessment may lead to the identification of a sensitive, critical or difficult-to-update system. The extent will need to be customised to meet the needs of the organisation.

No. An audit is not the migration itself but is a planning and assessment activity. It assists an organisation in identifying cryptographic relationships, identifying risk, prioritising systems and creating a transition roadmap. Implementation then could include application upgrades, software library modifications, hardware replacement, vendor coordination and testing. The migration strategy will be based on the systems and dependencies of the organisation.

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