Open-source data and news signal
PQC Open Intelligence Source Map
Quantum cyber risk is noisy when it is reduced to a countdown. The useful signal is source-backed: policy deadlines, standards, deployment telemetry, exposed cryptography, vulnerability context, and buyer-held evidence.
What counts as signal
A public source is useful only when it changes a decision: deadline, budget owner, migration order, vendor question, exposed system, or evidence requirement. Everything else is commentary.
Federal mandate
White House Executive Order 14412
Signal: Federal high-value and high-impact systems have named 2030 key-establishment and 2031 signature deadlines.
Use: Anchor board and procurement timing to signed policy, not generic Q-Day speculation.
Federal execution
OMB M-26-15
Signal: Agencies must prioritize critical IT, plan PQC migration, and manage cryptographic inventory work.
Use: Translate executive direction into operational evidence requirements for inventory, owners, and migration sequence.
Standards
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography project
Signal: FIPS 203, FIPS 204, and FIPS 205 are the principal standardized PQC algorithm references.
Use: Separate standards-backed migration claims from vendor-specific implementation claims.
National security systems
NSA post-quantum cybersecurity resources
Signal: CNSA 2.0 and related resources define the National Security System migration context.
Use: Keep civilian enterprise guidance distinct from classified or NSS-specific requirements.
Procurement categories
CISA PQC product categories
Signal: CISA identifies categories where PQC support is available or still transitioning.
Use: Turn vendor-readiness claims into category-specific procurement questions.
Internet deployment
Cloudflare Radar post-quantum encryption
Signal: Public telemetry tracks post-quantum encrypted browser traffic and origin-server readiness.
Use: Compare an organization's exposed surface against observable Internet adoption signals.
Operator roadmap
Cloudflare post-quantum EO analysis
Signal: Cloudflare distinguishes key-establishment migration from authentication and certificate migration.
Use: Prevent a false green where TLS key agreement improves but signatures, roots, or code signing remain classical.
Platform roadmap
Google PQC migration timeline
Signal: Google frames encryption and authentication as separate migration tracks with different urgency.
Use: Prioritize long-lived data exposure now while tracking the longer dependency chain for identity and signing.
Market validation
IBM Think Q-Day analysis
Signal: IBM's public analysis frames harvest-now-decrypt-later risk and crypto-agility as present-tense enterprise work.
Use: Use an external enterprise reference point without treating it as endorsement.
Open data to carry into assessments
- Certificate Transparency logs and public TLS scans for exposed certificate, issuer, and key-algorithm evidence.
- CISA KEV, NVD, OSV, and GHSA records for vulnerability context around cryptographic libraries and exposed software.
- SBOM, CBOM, VEX, package lockfiles, and build manifests when provided under approved scope.
- Open Quantum Safe, OpenSSL, browser, CDN, and cloud-provider roadmaps for implementation and interoperability signals.
Noise to reject
- Unbounded Q-Day predictions without decision impact.
- Vendor claims that do not name scope, algorithm, protocol, or deployment state.
- Compliance language that treats a framework reference as certification.
- Cryptographic inventory claims that cannot be tied to a system, owner, or evidence artifact.
How Qtonic Quantum uses the map
QScout turns public and buyer-approved evidence into scoped exposure findings. QStrike validates priority risk under governed assumptions. QSolve converts the finding into migration sequence, owner, and budget logic. The source map keeps those outputs tied to reconstructable public signals instead of persuasion copy.