CPE credits

One CPE credit is 60 minutes of teaching. Teaching includes instruction, exercises, and questions and answers. Breaks and lunch don’t count, and we round down to the nearest quarter credit. A four-hour course with one 15-minute break earns 3.75 credits.

Each course page shows its credits, by format where they differ. Your certificate shows your teaching minutes as well as your credits. If your certifying body counts a credit as 50 minutes, as ISACA does, you can convert the minutes yourself.

• your name, the course or webinar, and the dates you attended
• the format: live online, in person or private team training
• your teaching minutes and your CPE credits
• a certificate number and the signature of Marin Ivezic, founder of Quantum Academy

Register under the name your certifying body holds, so your certificate matches its records.

Log the course with your certifying body under its rules, and keep your certificate. A few bodies ask for more:

• ISC2 courses in your credential’s domains count as Group A, and other professional development counts as Group B.
• ISACA from 1 January 2027, at least 90 of your 120 cycle hours must match your certification’s exam content outline.
• CompTIA upload the course outline with your certificate. You’ll find the outline on each course page.
• GIAC courses count under Other InfoSec Related Training, and webinars under Community Participation.

Our post-quantum courses match the security domains of these certifications’ exams. The CISSP exam outline, for example, lists quantum cryptographic methods and quantum key distribution in objective 3.6.

Courses	Relevant credentials
Cryptography and PKI: Cryptographic Agility, Hybrid Cryptographic Implementations, PKI Modernization for Post-Quantum and The Quantum Threat: Technical Deep Dive	CISSP, SSCP, CCSP, CISM, CompTIA SecurityX
Discovery and engineering: Cryptographic Discovery, Inventory, and CBOM, PQC Migration for DevSecOps and PQC for the SOC	CISSP, CSSLP, CISM, CISA, CCOA
Governance, risk and compliance: PQC for GRC Professionals, PQC Vendor Governance and Supply Chain and the PQC Compliance courses	CISSP, CGRC, CISM, CRISC, CISA
Program delivery and leadership: PQC Migration Project Management, PQC Migration: Executing the Waves, Quantum Risk for CISOs, Quantum Security for Executives, Quantum Security for Boards and PQC Migration: Building the Business Case	CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, PMP
Industry: the Quantum-Safe courses and intensives for each industry	CISSP, CISM, CRISC. FRM and PRM for finance
Certification training: Post-Quantum Foundation, the Post-Quantum Certified Specialist (PQCS) Bootcamp, and the PQCS, PQCM, PQCA, PQCV and QCSP training courses	CISSP, SSCP, CISM, CompTIA SecurityX

Our quantum technology courses, such as Quantum Computing Fundamentals, earn credits the same way. ISC2 counts them as professional development, and other certifying bodies set their own rules.

Our free webinars last 60 minutes: about 45 minutes of teaching, then 15 minutes for your questions. If you attend live, you receive a certificate of attendance for 1 CPE credit. The recording earns no credits.

On-demand courses will earn CPE credits once they open. Until then, you earn credits in live online and in-person sessions.

Send the audit request to validation@quantumacademy.com. We keep attendance records and certificates for seven years, and we confirm your attendance to your certifying body directly.

You renew a Quantum Academy certification with 60 CPE credits in each three-year cycle, with at least 15 in each year. Credits from our courses and webinars count toward that renewal, and we record them for you. You report other activities to validation@quantumacademy.com. The Candidate Guide sets out the renewal rules.

Each certifying body decides which credits it accepts. Quantum Academy is not an approved, accredited or official provider of any certifying body.

CISSP, SSCP, CCSP, CSSLP and CGRC are registered marks of ISC2, Inc. CISM, CISA, CRISC, CGEIT and CCOA are trademarks of ISACA. CompTIA and SecurityX are trademarks of CompTIA, Inc. PMP is a registered mark of Project Management Institute, Inc. FRM is a trademark of GARP, and PRM is a trademark of PRMIA. Other names are trademarks of their owners.

Quantum Academy credentials are private professional credentials issued by Quantum Academy, a trade name of Post-Quantum Institute. They are not government-issued licenses, accredited degrees, or academic credit, and earning one does not guarantee employment, promotion, regulatory approval, or any other specific outcome. Quantum Academy programs are educational and informational only, and are not legal, compliance, or engineering advice.