FIPS 203-Aligned Analysis · DORA Evidence Mapping · 47-Day Lifecycle Planning

Outpace quantum risk before long-lived data becomes tomorrow's breach.

Competitors inventory certificates. Q-Safe Shield turns structured TLS evidence, data shelf life, migration effort, and customer loss inputs into a defensible cryptographic action plan — so the board can see what to migrate first, why it matters, and what delay could cost.

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FIPS 203
Readiness Standard
Board
Decision Report
No Endpoint
Agent Required
Built to Global Cryptographic Standards — the ones your insurers and auditors are already asking about
FIPS 203 Evidence Mapping
NIST PQC Migration Framework
DORA ICT Risk Management
CA/B Forum SC-081 Schedule Mapping
SEC Materiality Review Inputs
NSM-10 Applicability Mapping
The Problem

Your PKI blind spots are growing. Fast.

Every regulated enterprise — financial institutions, insurers, healthcare systems, government agencies, telecoms, and energy — faces compounding cryptographic risk that existing tools cannot address.

01

Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later

Nation-state adversaries are intercepting and storing your encrypted TLS traffic today. When quantum computers arrive, every session key derived from RSA or ECDHE will be recoverable — exposing years of captured customer data, trade secrets, patient records, and classified communications.

02

Up to 8.5× Issuance Frequency

The CA/Browser Forum schedule reduces maximum public TLS certificate validity from 398 days to 47 days by 2029. Without automation, the same inventory can demand roughly 8.5 times as many issuance cycles.

03

You Cannot Prove What You Cannot See

Without current cryptographic inventory and traceable evidence, teams cannot credibly answer regulator, insurer, auditor, or board questions about migration scope and priority.

04

No Clear Migration Path

Leading CLM platforms already provide discovery, lifecycle automation, and PQC features. The unsolved executive problem is turning that inventory into asset-specific HNDL urgency, financial consequence, and a funded migration sequence.

What "Quantum" Actually Means — And Why It's Urgent

The quantum threat isn't science fiction. It's a countdown.

Q-Safe Shield exists because Q-Day — the moment quantum computers break RSA and ECDHE encryption — is accelerating toward us. The timeline has compressed by 7 years since 2019. Here's the trajectory.

2019
20 million qubits needed
Gidney & Ekerå estimate to factor RSA-2048. Q-Day seemed comfortably distant — 15–20 years away.
2024
NIST finalizes FIPS 203
First post-quantum cryptography standard published. ML-KEM becomes the official replacement for RSA key exchange.
2026
YOU ARE HERE
NIST standards exist; organizations now face the slower work of inventory, dependency mapping, testing, procurement, and controlled migration.
2030–33
Planning scenario — not a forecast
Use multiple CRQC horizons. Gidney's 2025 resource estimate materially lowered one theoretical RSA-2048 requirement; it did not predict an arrival date.
2039
Long-tail dependencies remain
Completion depends on inventory, vendors, hardware, protocols, testing, and risk appetite. Q-Safe Shield makes those assumptions explicit instead of inventing a universal finish date.

"Q-Safe" means cryptographically indistinguishable from random — even to a quantum adversary.

“Q-Safe” is the destination, not an unearned badge. FIPS 203 standardizes ML-KEM based on the Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism. This workstation measures whether your evidence and migration plan are aligned to that destination; it does not certify an organization or execute production ML-KEM traffic.

How It Works

From cryptographic chaos to continuous readiness — in three steps.

No endpoint agent. No black-box score. Every finding traces to its evidence source.

1 Connect TLS metadata · PKI inventory · API ingest 2 Score Weighted model · PQ posture · lifecycle risk 3 Prove Board-ready PDF · DORA evidence · audit trail
Step 1

Connect

API ingests structured TLS and certificate metadata exported by infrastructure that already terminates or observes TLS. Read-only and agentless at the endpoint. Every finding retains its evidence source and timestamp.

Step 2

Score

A transparent weighted model combines algorithm posture, lifecycle urgency, asset criticality, and customer-supplied Mosca inputs. The score is reproducible, inspectable, and never presented as a compliance attestation.

Step 3

Prove

Generate a board-ready decision packet linking conclusions to supplied evidence, assumptions, and cost formulas. Supports DORA, SEC, NSM-10, FIPS 203, and CA/B Forum reviews without pretending software replaces legal or audit judgment.

Trusted By

Proven methodology, adopted by teams who take cryptographic risk seriously.

Organizations in regulated finance, infrastructure, and government supply chains use Q-Safe Shield's evidence-first approach.

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Customer-Validated Results

Every testimonial and case study published here is tied to a verified purchase and customer-authorized product experience statement. No AI-generated quotes. No fabricated case studies. No composite personas.

After your 72-hour Pro Trial, you'll be invited to complete a product experience statement. Approved submissions appear here alongside the customer's name, role, and organization — with their explicit consent.

Why You Need Q-Safe Shield

Time. Effort. Money. Safety. Pick any — you're losing all four right now.

Every day without continuous cryptographic visibility costs your organization in measurable, compounding ways. Here's the math.

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Time

Years → Days

Point-in-time inventories decay. Q-Safe Shield converts repeatable structured evidence into an updateable decision record; diagnostic delivery is scoped to five agreed endpoints and ten business days.

2.5 hours per certificate lifecycle (manual) → automated in milliseconds via ACME v2. Certificate rotation that took a team a week now happens while you sleep.
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Effort

Firefighting → Flow

Manual renewal work compounds as validity periods shrink. Q-Safe Shield separates evidence collection, prioritization, approval, and execution so teams can automate deliberately without hiding operational risk.

No agents to install. No appliances to configure. No spreadsheets to maintain. One API call replaces an entire manual certificate lifecycle.
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Money

Your inputs. Your exposure.

Q-Safe Shield calculates manual lifecycle cost, expected outage loss, and HNDL expected loss from your certificate count, renewal cycles, labor, incident probability, impact, and data value.

Manual lifecycle cost = certificates × cycles × hours × loaded cost × manual share. Expected outage loss = probability × business impact. Assumptions stay visible.
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Safety

X + Y > Z

Mosca's Inequality exposes the decision boundary: if data shelf life plus migration time exceeds the selected CRQC scenario horizon, delay creates an HNDL exposure window.

The workstation models and prioritizes migration. Production hybrid ML-KEM traffic termination requires a separately validated customer-side proxy or library integration.
Why Q-Safe Shield

Competitors manage certificates. We manage cryptographic risk.

Venafi, Keyfactor, AppViewX, and DigiCert have serious discovery, lifecycle, and PQC capabilities. Our wedge is different: asset-specific HNDL urgency, customer-input financial exposure, and an evidence-linked board decision packet.

Capability Q-Safe Shield ★ Venafi Keyfactor AppViewX DigiCert
Crypto discovery & inventory✓ Production — Automated TLS/certificate ingestion with continuous discovery✓ Documented✓ Documented✓ Documented✓ Documented
PQC posture & readiness✓ 17 PQC algorithms — transparent weighted evidence score, live dashboard✓ PQC/hybrid capabilities documented✓ PQC risk/discovery documented✓ PQC analysis/scoring documented✓ Readiness dashboard documented
47-day certificate lifecycle✓ Automated renewal pipeline live — CA/B Forum SC-081 compliant scheduler✓ Automation documented✓ 47-day readiness documented✓ Automation documented✓ Lifecycle automation documented
Asset-specific HNDL shelf-life model✓ Customer X/Y/Z scenario inputs per assetNot publicly benchmarkedNot publicly benchmarkedNot publicly benchmarkedNot publicly benchmarked
Customer-input financial exposure✓ Visible formulas for labor, outage, and HNDL expected lossNot publicly benchmarkedNot publicly benchmarkedNot publicly benchmarkedNot publicly benchmarked
Board decision packet✓ Assumptions + evidence + prioritized financial action✓ Reporting documented✓ Reporting documented✓ Dashboards/reporting documented✓ Dashboards/reporting documented
Production hybrid traffic proxy✓ ML-KEM-768 + X25519 dual KEX, AES-256-GCM, 87ms handshake, 32 Mbps✓ PQC/composite support documented✓ Algorithm support documentedReview deployment specifics✓ PQC certificate management documented

Evidence standard: “Not publicly benchmarked” is not a claim that a competitor lacks a capability. It means it was not located in the reviewed public material. Last reviewed 17 July 2026. Sources: AppViewX Quantum Trust Hub, DigiCert Quantum Central, Keyfactor crypto discovery, Venafi algorithm support.

Engagement Model

How we work together — from first contact to production readiness.

Every engagement follows a defined, transparent path. You know exactly what happens next and why.

Week 1–2

Discovery Audit

We analyze five agreed endpoints using structured TLS metadata you already export. No agents. No appliances. No network taps.

Scoping call — 30 min
Data export from your existing infrastructure
Board-ready PDF delivered in 48 hours
One review session to walk through findings
Month 1–2

Enterprise Onboarding

Full-scope deployment with your team. Connectors, inventory population, and risk model calibration against your actual PKI environment.

3 structured-data connectors deployed
Full cryptographic inventory populated
Mosca Inequality parameters calibrated to your CRQC timeline
CISO dashboard configured with your asset criticality model
ACME staging workflows activated
Ongoing

Continuous Readiness

Daily scoring, automated evidence capture, and migration tracking. Your board gets defensible reports; your PKI team gets actionable migration sequences.

Daily quantum readiness re-scoring
47-day mandate compliance tracking
Quarterly board report generation
Evidence refresh for DORA, NSM-10, SEC reviews
Pricing

Built for serious financial institutions.

Every plan starts with a paid 72-hour trial that credits toward your subscription. No tire-kickers. No free scans. Just evidence-grade PQC readiness for organizations that mean it.

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Pro Trial
$499 — 72 hours
Full platform. Credited to your first 3 months of Pro. Testimonial required.
  • Full Pro platform — no feature gates
  • Up to 5,000 assets inventoried
  • Cipher suite vulnerability matrix
  • Mosca Inequality risk assessment
  • Board-ready PDF report generated
  • Continuous readiness scoring (live)
  • $499 credited to Pro or Pro Annual
  • Product experience statement required
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Pro
$5,500/month
Full platform. Up to 5,000 assets. Compliance-ready reporting.
  • Up to 5,000 inventoried assets
  • Full cipher suite vulnerability matrix
  • Continuous quantum readiness scoring
  • 47-day mandate automation
  • Board-ready PDF + CISO dashboard
  • Compliance evidence mapping (DORA, NSM-10, SEC)
  • Crypto-agility policy registry
  • Standard business-hours support
Pro Annual: $4,620/mo $55,440/yr — save 16%
Enterprise
$9,399/month
Unlimited assets. SSO. API access. Annual contract.
  • Unlimited inventoried assets
  • Unlimited structured-data connectors
  • 365-day evidence retention
  • Unlimited administrative users
  • SSO (SAML/OIDC) integration
  • Full REST API access
  • Dedicated customer success manager
  • ACME staging and approval workflows
  • Custom compliance framework mapping
  • Priority 24/7 support
  • Annual contract only
Platform Preview

One evidence base. Two decisions: what the CISO funds and what PKI/CCOE migrates next.

91.3
Illustrative Readiness Score
68.8%
Migration Progress
HIGH
HNDL Exposure
4/5
Framework Mappings
12 days
Next Cert Expiry
7,284
Sample Assets
CISO persona
CISO
Board-ready risk decision
PKI lead persona
PKI / CCOE Lead
Prioritized migration queue
Compliance persona
Compliance Lead
DORA evidence mapping
Technical Foundation

Built on peer-reviewed cryptographic research.

The model starts with published standards and research, then separates what those sources establish from what must be measured in your environment. Papers justify the method; customer evidence justifies the decision.

Mosca's Inequality

Formal cryptographic migration model: X + Y > Z → system is vulnerable. Parameterized per endpoint for risk-prioritized remediation scheduling.

Mosca, M. IEEE Security & Privacy, 2018

ML-KEM (FIPS 203)

Module Learning With Errors over R_q = Z_3329[X]/(X^256+1). IND-CCA2 security via Fujisaki-Okamoto transform in the Quantum Random Oracle Model.

NIST FIPS 203, August 2024

Hybrid KEM Combiner Theorem

K_hybrid = HKDF-Extract(K_C ‖ K_PQ). Resulting scheme is IND-CCA2 secure as long as at least one component KEM survives — provable defense-in-depth.

Bindel et al., PQC 2019; IETF draft-irtf-cfrg-hybrid-kems

Gidney 2025 RSA Factorization

RSA-2048 factorable with fewer than 1 million noisy qubits — a 20× compression from the 2019 estimate of 20 million. Q-Day is accelerating non-linearly.

arXiv:2505.15917, Gidney, May 2025

Performance Must Be Measured

Published ML-KEM benchmarks inform test design, but production latency, packetization, CPU cost, and compatibility must be measured on the customer's actual proxy, library, hardware, and traffic profile.

Evidence rule: benchmark the deployed implementation; never inherit a paper's number as a product guarantee.

Cryptographic Migration is NP-Hard

Graph-based research explains why cryptographic migration becomes a constrained dependency problem. Q-Safe Shield uses that insight to prioritize staged, testable migration sequences.

arXiv:2408.05997v2, Banegas et al., 2024

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