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Security Leader

For CISOs, their deputies and heads of security who answer for quantum risk. Start with the threat and the funding case, then earn PQCS and PQCM and take the specialist courses for your industry and your AI systems.

In Quantum Risk for CISOs, you assess when the quantum threat applies to your own data and which deadlines your regulators have set. In PQC Migration: Building the Business Case, you turn that assessment into a funding request your executive team can approve.

Next come the certifications. PQCS validates that you know the technical work your team will do. PQCM validates that you can govern the migration program, and it requires an active PQCS. PQCS training requires the Post-Quantum Foundation certificate of completion.

We end with two specialist courses. In the intensive for your industry, you draft a migration plan and a year-one roadmap from your own records or from a sample organization we provide. In Quantum-Safe AI Systems, you bring AI models, training data and inference traffic into the same migration. Choose your industry below to see which intensive we run for it.

Recommended courses and certifications

We recommend these courses for this role, in this order. Choose the ones that match your experience and your work, and skip what you already know. Prerequisites listed on a course page still apply.

  1. Quantum Risk for CISOs

    You assess the threat timeline for your own data, map the regulatory deadlines and prepare the board briefing.

    Executive & awarenessExecutive4 hoursOnline On-Demand / Live Online / In-Person

  2. PQC Migration: Building the Business Case

    You build the funding request: the cost model, the risk quantification and the presentation to the executives who approve it.

    Executive & awarenessExecutive2 hoursOnline On-Demand / Live Online / In-Person

  3. Post-Quantum Foundation

    Half a day on the quantum threat, the NIST standards and the migration phases. PQCS training requires its certificate of completion.

    Certification tracksFoundationalHalf dayOnline On-Demand / Live Online / In-Person

  4. Post-Quantum Certified Specialist (PQCS) Training

    You learn the technical work your team will do: inventory, algorithm selection, hybrid implementation and cryptographic agility.

    Certification tracksFoundational~40 hours on-demand · 24 hours liveOnline On-Demand / Live Online / In-Person

    Leads to the PQCS certification Assessed by proctored exam.

  5. Post-Quantum Certified Manager (PQCM) Training

    You learn to govern the migration: compliance mapping, readiness assessment, vendor management and reporting to the board.

    Certification tracksSpecialized~40 hours on-demand · 24 hours liveOnline On-Demand / Live Online / In-Person

    Leads to the PQCM certification Assessed by proctored exam. Requires an active PQCS certification.

  6. Quantum-Safe intensive for your industry

    An eight-hour planning workshop. You work from your own records or from a sample organization we provide, and leave with a draft plan and a year-one roadmap.

    Find the course for your industry

  7. Quantum-Safe AI Systems

    You bring AI systems into the migration: model integrity, training data, inference traffic and the AI supply chain.

    Sector overviewsAdvancedApprox. 4 hoursOnline On-Demand / Live Online / In-Person

Private team training

We run the courses on this path for your team alone, online or at your site, on dates you choose. We quote each private course separately.

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