Governments Just Put a Deadline on Encryption, and a Quiet Corner of Cybersecurity Is Suddenly on the Clock.

Governments are increasingly treating the transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as a procurement deadline, rather than a research topic, as quantum computing advances threaten to break current public-key encryption. This shift is turning the once-obscure discipline into a strategically important area of cybersecurity. The primary challenge is not merely swapping algorithms but the complex logistics of discovering where cryptography resides across an organization's applications, devices, certificates, and infrastructure, then building a roadmap to quantum-safe systems.