Cybersecurity
Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness
Crypto-agility is bounded by hardware that cannot be upgraded. The honest first step is an inventory and refresh plan for the network, boundary and endpoint estate — and that replacement hardware is what we quote.
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- The hardware refresh underneath a crypto-agility plan
- What we quote
- Replacement network, boundary and endpoint hardware on a refresh cycle
- Boundary
- We do not assess, certify or attest to cryptographic posture
The constraint is not the algorithm; it is the gear that cannot take one
Standards for post-quantum algorithms exist, vendors are shipping support, and the migration will happen over years rather than quarters. For a buyer, the near-term question is narrower and much more practical: which of the devices in your estate will still be in service when the switch is expected, and which of those are physically incapable of taking a firmware update that implements new algorithms. That is an inventory problem with an ordinary procurement answer — a refresh plan for the equipment that is already at or near end of support, sequenced so that crypto-agility arrives as a property of the estate rather than a project. That refresh hardware is what we quote. We are not a cryptography assessor, and this page does not pretend the purchase is the migration.
Where the immovable hardware usually is
Three places, in roughly this order. Boundary appliances, which terminate encrypted sessions and often run on platforms with a fixed support horizon — an appliance out of support will not receive the firmware carrying new algorithms, whatever the vendor implements upstream. Network devices with hardware-accelerated cryptographic offload, where the acceleration is exactly what makes the device unable to adopt a different algorithm without new silicon. And endpoints with older platform modules, where the hardware root of trust supports a fixed set of algorithms.
The practical sequence is unglamorous: inventory what is in service, mark end-of-support dates against it, identify anything expected to remain in service past the horizon your program is planning to, and fold the replacements into the refresh cycle you already run. Buying new equipment on the normal cycle with agility as a selection criterion costs far less than a separate migration project, and it is a plan a budget process can actually absorb.
The refresh estate, priced honestly
Priced lines from the hub catalog. The post-quantum-specific platforms — key management, hardware security modules, certificate tooling — are sourced on request through authorized US distribution. Naming a manufacturer describes the market, not a Uniqcli partnership or endorsement.
Boundary appliance refresh
SonicWall, WatchGuard and Check Point appliances quoted as replacements for units at or near end of support, sized against inspected throughput rather than the headline figure — and with the subscription term co-termed to your existing anniversaries.
Network estate refresh
Allied Telesis managed switching where the installed base is past its support horizon, quoted against the port density and media the design actually needs rather than a like-for-like swap of what is there.
Endpoint refresh
Lenovo business machines with a current platform module and firmware baseline, imaged to your build before delivery. The endpoint estate is usually the largest line and the easiest to sequence, because it already turns over on a cycle.
What this page deliberately does not claim
We do not assess cryptographic posture, produce a cryptographic bill of materials, certify readiness or attest to anything about your algorithms. Those are specialist assessment functions, and a reseller claiming them would be overreaching. What we can do is help identify which equipment is aging out of support and quote its replacement.
We also hold no priced inventory in the post-quantum-specific market — key management platforms, hardware security modules and certificate tooling are sourced on request against the product your program names. Naming vendors we cannot genuinely supply would make this page marketing rather than a procurement plan.
Readiness questions
What should a buyer actually do first?
Inventory. Know what cryptographic-bearing equipment is in service, when it leaves support, and which units are expected to still be running past the horizon your program is planning to. Everything after that is a refresh sequence, and it is a far more tractable problem than it is usually presented as.
Does new hardware make us post-quantum ready?
No. It removes a constraint — equipment that can never take an update implementing new algorithms is a hard blocker — but readiness is a program covering protocols, certificates, key management and the applications above them. Hardware refresh is the part with a purchase order attached, not the whole of it.
Do you assess our cryptographic posture?
No. We are not a cryptography assessor and do not produce readiness assessments, cryptographic inventories or attestations. We quote replacement hardware against a plan your program or its assessor has produced.
How do we find what is aging out of support?
Vendor end-of-life notices are the authoritative source, and our lifecycle checker covers the vendors we have official-notice data for. Where a vendor is not covered, we will say so rather than infer a date — an invented end-of-support figure is worse than no figure at all in a refresh plan.
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Send the equipment list, or just the sites and the vendors. We identify what is at or near end of support and quote the replacements sequenced into a refresh cycle your budget process can absorb.