Turn cryptographic findings into business decisions
Evaluate data longevity, system criticality, vendor readiness, technical dependencies, and migration constraints to create a practical, evidence-labelled roadmap.
Evolext’s work currently focuses on research, assessment, and controlled laboratory prototypes. Production changes require separately agreed engineering and validation.
Technology and risk owners who need to decide what to investigate, budget, sequence, or defer before selecting post-quantum implementations.
The question this answers
Which migration decisions should we prioritize, investigate, or defer?
What we need to begin
A cryptographic inventory or enough evidence to establish a bounded baseline
Business owners for critical systems and sensitive data
Known retention, confidentiality, availability, and interoperability requirements
Relevant vendor roadmaps, contracts, and platform constraints where available
What we assess
Data confidentiality lifetime and harvest-now, decrypt-later exposure
Business criticality, change windows, dependencies, and recovery constraints
Vendor and platform readiness, including uncertain or unsupported migration paths
Crypto-agility capabilities across software, protocols, infrastructure, and operations
Priority based on evidence, impact, urgency, feasibility, and unresolved unknowns
What you receive
An evidence-labelled readiness summary and decision register
A prioritized risk and dependency map
A phased crypto-agility and migration roadmap
Vendor questions, proof-of-concept candidates, and explicit decision gates
Important limitations
The assessment does not certify regulatory compliance or declare an organization quantum-safe.
Priorities may change as standards, protocols, products, vendor support, and business systems evolve.
Recommendations are limited by the accuracy and completeness of the supplied inventory and stakeholder evidence.
When the work is complete
The agreed baseline and constraints have been assessed, and a prioritized decision register and roadmap have been reviewed with the decision owners. Unresolved vendor questions and assumptions remain explicit.
Scope, schedule, and fees are agreed after reviewing requirements. An inquiry does not create an engagement or guarantee availability or an outcome.
Illustrative example · not client work
Assessment decision record
Observation / decision
Investigate a service connection before selecting a migration option.
Evidence source
A bounded inventory and architecture notes supplied for review.
Uncertainty
Vendor support and data-confidentiality requirements remain unconfirmed.
Owner
Technology decision owner, to be agreed.
Next action
Obtain vendor evidence and data-lifetime requirements before prioritizing a prototype.
How the engagement works
01
Baseline
Confirm inventory coverage, business objectives, decision owners, and material unknowns.
02
Evaluate
Assess data lifetime, system exposure, vendor support, agility, and operational constraints.
03
Prioritize
Score candidate actions using evidence strength, business impact, urgency, and feasibility.
04
Roadmap
Define phases, owners, dependencies, decision gates, and suitable prototype candidates.
Evidence and limitations
Readiness assessment — prioritization, not compliance certification
Evolext work is research-, assessment-, and prototype-stage. Guidance and source findings do not establish production readiness, compliance, or universal security.
Access boundaries, approved collection methods, permitted recipients, and retention or deletion arrangements must be agreed before collection. Discuss whether approved exports can answer the question without production access. Do not send repositories, credentials, keys, or confidential reports through the inquiry form.
NCCoE guidance informs discovery and migration planning. FIPS 203, 204, and 205 define ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA algorithm standards respectively; they do not establish protocol, vendor, or system readiness. Applicable references and implementation limits must be recorded for each engagement. References are not certification.
Tell us which system or migration decision you want to explore. Keep the first inquiry high-level; do not submit credentials, private keys, secrets, or confidential reports.