Post-Quantum Is Overhyped. Start Now Anyway.

Every board eventually asks the same question: when will a quantum computer break RSA? No CISO can answer it, and no budget can be planned around it.

That’s the wrong question anyway.

For most organizations, the post-quantum deadline won’t arrive with a quantum computer. It will arrive in a contract clause, a security questionnaire, or a hardware refresh that’s already on the calendar. The replacement algorithms are standardized. The hard part is migrating certificates, keys and devices that were never designed to change.

PQC is overhyped. You should start now anyway.

In this webinar, we’ll cut through the hype and walk through what a practical post-quantum program looks like, from figuring out where your cryptography lives to deciding what to fix first.

We’ll cover:

• Why “when is Q-Day?” is the wrong planning question, and which three deadlines matter instead
• How harvest-now-decrypt-later puts long-lived secrets at risk today
• How post-quantum requirements reach private companies through contracts, RFPs and questionnaires
• Where real programs stall: missing crypto inventories, HSMs, and devices already in the field
• Why the hardware you buy this year is already a post-quantum decision, and what to ask vendors

We’ll also walk through a live demo showing how Smallstep gives you visibility into the certificates and keys across your devices and workloads, so you know what you’ll need to migrate before a deadline forces the issue.