Year of Quantum Security 2026: FBI and CISA push phased PQC migration as harvest-now risk mounts

The Quantum Insider reports the Year of Quantum Security 2026 initiative, opened in January with FBI, NIST and CISA officials, is driving coordinated federal and industry action on post-quantum cryptography. Cloudflare reports the majority of human-generated traffic achieved post-quantum encryption by late 2025. Officials stress that adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data for later decryption, making migration an immediate concern.

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