Deloitte can take a deep dive to inventory and analyze your cryptography—and the assets and data it is protecting—and provide a foundational understanding that will inform your journey ahead. Our team of cyber risk, cryptography, and industry specialists leverages solutions to simplify the inventory and assessment process, and to provide insights into which data, applications, and networks may be most vulnerable. We also work with an ecosystem of innovators, which means we use a structured methodology to help you select the cryptographic discovery vendors whose solutions best fit your needs. We provide the choice and simplicity, as well as a roadmap providing a clear path for becoming quantum cyber-ready and protecting the future of your business.

Deloitte can help you strategically plan for replacing cryptography algorithms with the latest post-quantum cryptography—leveraging insights gained during the inventorying and assessment phase. And through our collaboration with Deloitte’s Quantum Computing Use Cases team, we can also support a broader strategic transition as you prepare for the quantum era.

Here are some key ways we can help you with post-quantum cryptography implementation and transition:

• Replace cryptography that is not quantum-ready, including difficult-to-address algorithms encapsulated within other solutions
• Engage with your vendors and other third parties to update algorithms in your extended software supply chain and IT/business ecosystem
• Provide guidance and support for algorithm updates performed by your own team
• Support other IT initiatives, such as an ERP transformation and cloud migration, with advisory and implementation services—to help ensure quantum cyber readiness as you adopt new solutions
• Identify and act on additional opportunities to improve cyber hygiene, modernize your security architecture with Zero Trust principles, reduce business and operational risk, and enhance security, including related technologies such as Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Random Number Generators that may be able to further bolster your (quantum) cyber security

Deloitte can help you establish the governance you need to drive compliance and help your business thrive over the longer term, as a crypto-agile enterprise that can flexibly adapt in a future defined by emerging risks such as those stemming from quantum computing. Deloitte can help you put in place a detailed governance structure that allows your organization to use post-quantum cryptography more effectively—on an ongoing basis, as new cryptographic algorithms and needs come into play. Our team can help you:those stemming from quantum computing

• Define roles and responsibilities for managing and updating your cryptography inventory
• Monitor relevant standards and regulations for cryptography and cybersecurity
• Create reports (and a reporting structure) to support ongoing compliance needs
• Monitor technology trends and update compliance activities to address them
• Establish a process for rapidly updating algorithms as new ones emerge, to support crypto-agility and greater cyber readiness
• Launch training, awareness, and change management programs that shape a new culture around quantum cyber readiness and cryptography
• Identify additional opportunities to enhance compliance for cybersecurity and risk-related activities