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Quantum-safe readiness assessment

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.

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Who this is for

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

  1. 01

    Baseline

    Confirm inventory coverage, business objectives, decision owners, and material unknowns.

  2. 02

    Evaluate

    Assess data lifetime, system exposure, vendor support, agility, and operational constraints.

  3. 03

    Prioritize

    Score candidate actions using evidence strength, business impact, urgency, and feasibility.

  4. 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.

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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.

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