Industry Perspectives:
Financial Industry
Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Redefining Financial Security —
Is Your Organization Ready?
Quantum breakthroughs threaten the cryptographic foundations of banking, payments, and digital assets. Regulators and experts agree: the time to prepare is now.
Why This Matters
“Central banks, regulators, and cybersecurity authorities all warn that financial institutions must prepare for the quantum threat today. Delaying migration to post-quantum cryptography could expose sensitive data, payments, and digital assets to catastrophic breaches.”
“Experts agree that systems should be updated to quantum-safe cryptography sooner, especially those holding high-value, long-life information.” ”
“Quantum computing will render traditional cryptography unsafe by 2029… ‘Harvest-now, decrypt-later’ attacks may already exist.”
What You’ll Learn
Latest guidance from Bank of Canada, OSFI, and BIS
The 4 critical risks every financial institution must assess
Implications for payments, compliance, blockchain, and data security
A practical roadmap to building quantum resilience today
“In one anticipated scenario, these threat actors use the quantum computers of the near future to access data that today would be considered inviolate.”
— Phil Venables, CISO, Google Cloud
Risks Financial Leaders Cannot Ignore
Payments & Transactions
“Quantum threats could allow attackers to forge payment authorizations or replay transactions.” — BIS Guidance
Blockchain & Digital Currencies
“Roughly a quarter of all Bitcoins … could be cracked by quantum computers in five or 10 years.” — Gartner (Avivah Litan), via Barron’s
Compliance & Regulation
“It is critical that organizations begin to plan for many of the technological and operational challenges that a migration to post-quantum cryptography will present.” — William Newhouse, NIST NCCoE
Who This Industry
Perspective Is For
This Industry Perspective is designed for:
CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs
Risk, Compliance, and Governance leaders
Banking, payments, and fintech executives
Anyone responsible for protecting high-value digital assets
QCrypt Canada Leads the Way
QCrypt Canada empowers financial organizations to become crypto-agile — ready to adapt to the challenges of quantum computing. With over 75 years of combined expertise, we provide proven methodologies, advanced post-quantum solutions, and trusted guidance across Canada.
“The goal is straightforward: ‘all instances of public-key cryptography must be migrated’ to protect Canadian systems and citizens’ data from the looming quantum threat.”
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The Quantum Era Won’t Wait. Neither Should You.
“Financial services that still rely on traditional computing technology for cryptography will fail if they don’t quickly adopt a strong post-quantum cryptography methodology.”
