Mosca’s Theorem: Working Out Your Own Quantum Deadline
Mosca's Theorem is one line of arithmetic, and most organisations get two of its three variables wrong. Here is how to estimate each one…
The Deadlines That Already Bind Your Cryptography
Q-Day is a forecast and forecasts move. The 2028, 2030, 2031 and 2035 milestones published by NCSC, the EU, Canada and NIST are commitments…
Deemed Exports: When Explaining Your Quantum Work Becomes an Export
Since September 2024, a screen share with a foreign colleague can require a US export license. What deemed export rules mean for quantum teams,…
Before You Create a Chief Quantum Officer Role
Two organizations appointed Chief Quantum Officers in 2023. The lesson was never the title. Here is how to find the quantum decisions in your…
Quantum Research Is an Intelligence Target
Foreign intelligence services are collecting against quantum work at every level, from national labs to seed-stage startups. What the public record shows, and what…
The Three Budgets Behind Every Quantum Control System
Quantum control systems are usually described by their parts. Engineers get further by describing them by their budgets: timing, noise, and wiring.
Building the Funding Case for Post-Quantum Migration
Most post-quantum funding requests open with the threat and arrive at the ask with nothing a finance director can check. Here is what to…
The Four Capabilities an Alliance Cannot Give You
Coalitions supply roadmaps, standards, funding and facilities. They cannot supply the capability to specify, verify, integrate and substitute. Here is what each member has…
When a Full Cryptographic Inventory Isn’t Possible
Enterprise-wide crypto discovery stalls in predictable places. Here is how to scope an inventory you can finish, and how to make the unexamined remainder…
Using Quantum Readiness to Win Budget for Everything Else
Post-quantum deadlines carry something ordinary hygiene work never has: an external date and an auditable artifact. That makes them among the most fundable lines…