To that end, Palo Alto’s Quantum-Safe Security solution offers advanced cryptographic risk assessment and prioritization, correlating encryption strength with business criticality and data lifecycle. This identifies immediate exposures (“harvest now, decrypt later” risks) and high-value assets requiring priority migration, providing security teams with a clear, impact-based roadmap.
Another key feature is its remediation approach, which guides the transition in several stages. The solution helps modernize infrastructures to achieve a “quantum ready” state, activate post-quantum or hybrid (quantum-safe) algorithms, and, in the case of legacy systems or devices that cannot be upgraded, apply virtual patching through encryption translation. This mechanism enables vulnerable traffic to be re-encrypted in real-time with secure quantum standards, without modifying existing applications or code.
Quantum-Safe Security also incorporates a robust governance and ongoing compliance framework. It automates crypto hygiene management, maintains a dynamic cryptographic inventory (CBOM), and detects deviations or the use of weak ciphers in real-time. Furthermore, it facilitates regulatory compliance through automated reporting and audits aligned with global standards and regulations such as NIST, FIPS 140-3, and DORA.
