Quantum-Safe Readiness for Leaders
Run your organization's move to post-quantum cryptography, from inventory to a roadmap your board approves
Quantum-Safe Readiness for Leaders from the Enterprise Technology Association (ETA) is for the people who have to make the move to post-quantum cryptography happen: CIOs, CISOs, IT and security managers, risk, compliance and procurement leads, and the executives who fund them. NIST has now set the dates: quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms such as RSA and elliptic curve are deprecated after 2030 and disallowed after 2035. Migration takes years, and data sent today can be recorded and decrypted later.
This course turns ETA's five Quantum-safe readiness steps (inventory, prioritize, ask vendors, build crypto agility, migrate and test) into a leadership program. You finish with a capstone: a quantum-safe readiness plan for your organization, submitted and reviewed by a person. Completing the course earns the ETA Specialist: Quantum-Safe Readiness for Leaders credential.
What you'll learn
- Explain quantum risk and NIST's dates to leaders without hype, using Mosca's inequality
- Set up ownership, a year-one budget and a governance rhythm that lasts
- Build a cryptographic inventory quickly from scans, configuration, vendors and owners
- Rank quantum risk, separating key exchange risk from signature and device risk
- Ask vendors six questions that reveal real readiness, and write post-quantum terms into contracts
- Build crypto agility into what you build and run, including TLS 1.3 and larger key sizes
- Sequence the migration, starting with hybrid key exchange, and run a pilot
- Report progress with a dated roadmap, real measures and a one-page board update
Who it's for
Leaders and senior practitioners in IT, security, risk, compliance and procurement at organizations of any size, and executives who own technology risk. Quantum-Safe Security: Foundations (free, about an hour) is recommended first.
How it works
Four modules with a Try it exercise in every lesson, a knowledge check after each module, a capstone and a final assessment. About 4 hours. Included with ETA Pro membership and above.
Standards and dates are current as of November 2026. Always check NIST and your regulators for the latest.