Quantum Readiness Consulting.
Forrow helps organisations understand where encryption, certificates, identity, data flows, and supplier dependencies could create Q-Day risk.
Forrow Quantum Readiness: Mobilise. Discover. Prepare.
Mobilise: Make Q-Day a Managed Business Risk
Quantum security is already a planning issue for regulated and supplier-heavy organisations. The immediate challenge is not to predict Q-Day precisely, but to establish ownership, governance, and a common risk position before delivery timelines compress.
Forrow supports executive briefings, Q-Day risk assessment, stakeholder mobilisation, and the creation of governance structures such as a Quantum Forum. We help clients make the topic practical for cyber security, architecture, supplier management, risk, and application ownership.
The result is a clear, senior-ready view of what quantum readiness means for your organisation and where early action should start.
Discover: Find the Encryption and Trust Dependencies
Organisations cannot remediate what they cannot see. Forrow helps create the cryptographic inventory and evidence base needed to understand exposure across applications, APIs, TLS endpoints, certificates, PKI, key management, suppliers, and sensitive data flows.
We use application owner questionnaires, supplier evidence requests, data sensitivity and shelf-life assessment, public internet exposure review, and certificate dependency mapping to identify where quantum-vulnerable cryptography may create risk.
Prepare: Build a Practical Q-Day Roadmap
Post-quantum readiness is not achieved by changing one algorithm. It requires prioritised remediation across data, identity, certificates, suppliers, legacy systems, and business processes.
Forrow develops Q-Day roadmaps, supplier PQC readiness assessments, PKI and certificate reviews, remediation backlogs, governance models, and business continuity scenarios for systems or suppliers that cannot migrate in time.
The outcome is a proportionate transition plan that supports cryptographic agility as post-quantum standards, platforms, and vendor capabilities mature.
Prepare for Q-Day before it becomes a delivery constraint
Forrow helps leadership teams move from awareness to evidence, prioritisation, and practical remediation planning.
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Why Quantum Readiness Matters
Quantum security is a business and technology risk management issue. Future cryptographically relevant quantum computers could affect the public-key mechanisms used to protect data, communications, identity, certificates, supplier integrations, and service trust.
The most immediate planning concern is where sensitive data is transmitted over public or third-party channels and remains valuable beyond the Q-Day planning horizon. This creates harvest-now-decrypt-later risk, where traffic captured today may become readable later if classical key exchange remains in use.
What Forrow Helps You Understand
We help clients build a clear view of where quantum security risk may sit across the enterprise, including applications, data flows, certificates, PKI, suppliers, service identity, TLS endpoints, legacy systems, and key management.
- Which data remains sensitive long enough to require early protection.
- Which public-facing and supplier-facing channels may require TLS and key exchange review.
- Which certificates, trust stores, PKI services, and signing mechanisms create transition dependencies.
- Which suppliers need evidence, roadmaps, and contractual or governance follow-up.
The Risks Forrow Assesses
Forrow focuses on practical risk outcomes rather than abstract cryptography. We assess the areas most likely to create business, technology, supplier, or operational pressure.
- Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: patch TLS endpoints and restrict sensitive data on legacy channels.
- Supplier PQC Compatibility: validate supplier readiness and redesign unsupported integrations.
- Group PQC Readiness: build a group cryptographic inventory and standardise remediation tracking.
- Digital Signature and PKI Failure: automate certificate replacement and update PKI-dependent services.
- Migration and Crypto Debt: replace unsupported systems and regression-test critical services.
Our Approach
Our approach is designed to create evidence quickly, prioritise action, and avoid unnecessary complexity. It can be used as a focused assessment or as the foundation for a broader Q-Day readiness programme.
- Mobilise: executive briefing, scope, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
- Discover: inventory, data flows, certificates, suppliers, and applications.
- Assess: sensitivity, shelf-life, criticality, exposure, and supplier readiness.
- Prioritise: remediation roadmap, risk treatment, and sequencing assumptions.
- Prepare: governance, policy, business continuity, and supplier engagement.
Typical Deliverables
Forrow produces outputs that can be used by leadership, risk, audit, supplier management, architecture, engineering, and application owners.
- Quantum readiness assessment and executive risk summary.
- Cryptographic exposure inventory and application owner questionnaire.
- Supplier readiness tracker and evidence request pack.
- Q-Day roadmap and prioritised remediation backlog.
- Business continuity scenarios for systems or suppliers that cannot migrate in time.
- Board-ready reporting for risk, audit, and governance conversations.
Why Forrow
Forrow combines senior cyber security judgement, regulated sector experience, and practical delivery focus. We help clients translate emerging cryptographic risk into actionable business planning.
- Senior cyber security and risk practitioners.
- Board and executive-level communication.
- Financial services and regulated sector experience.
- Practical Q-Day roadmap development.
- Cryptographic inventory and supplier assurance capability.
- Clear outputs for leadership, governance, and delivery teams.
Ready to understand your quantum security risk?
Forrow can help you assess exposure, prioritise action, and build a practical roadmap for post-quantum cryptography readiness.