NIST Post-Quantum Readiness Checklist
Measure your exposure to "harvest now, decrypt later" risks and map your transition to NIST post-quantum standards.
Bridge the gap between NIST standards and your operational security.
Cryptographic risk accelerates as quantum threats approach and regulatory timelines tighten. The NIST Post-Quantum Readiness Checklist delivers a precise, category-by-category framework to evaluate cryptographic exposure, identify early readiness gaps and prioritize action based on real risk. Designed for structured self-assessments, each section helps security and infrastructure teams systematically score visibility, long-lived data protection, priority systems, vendor dependencies and governance.
Bridge the Gap Between NIST Standards and Operational Reality
The checklist covers eight essential readiness categories — spanning NIST standards awareness and cryptographic visibility to vendor dependencies and governance. Each section enables security teams to evaluate where quantum-vulnerable, public-key algorithms exist and build a practical path toward long-term crypto-agility.
Evaluate eight core readiness categories: Systematically score your organization across NIST standards awareness, cryptographic visibility, long-lived data, priority systems, vendor readiness, testing, ownership and governance.
Uncover early PQC readiness gaps: Surface hidden risks across RSA, ECC and Diffie-Hellman implementations across TLS, mTLS, VPNs, APIs and signing workflows.
Protect long-lived sensitive data: Identify and rank sensitive assets vulnerable to "harvest now, decrypt later" threats based on data shelf life and potential exposure.
Categorize priority systems: Separate critical workloads into "do first," "plan next," "monitor" or "defer with governance" to focus effort where risk intersects exposure.
Download this practical guide to equip your team with a structured, repeatable framework to surface cryptographic risk and build a quantum-safe resilience strategy.