🟡 Medium | Source: The Hacker News
Microsoft is accelerating its post-quantum cryptography (PQC) roadmap, targeting 2029 for replacing existing encryption standards across Azure and its broader ecosystem. The shift is driven by faster-than-expected advances in quantum computing, which threaten to undermine current public-key cryptography such as RSA and ECC. This matters because organisations relying on Azure services need to begin their own cryptographic migration planning now to avoid exposure.
Security Architect’s Take: Begin a cryptographic inventory of your Azure workloads and dependencies today — identify where RSA, ECC, and other quantum-vulnerable algorithms are in use across certificates, key vaults, TLS configurations, and custom code. Align your migration roadmap to NIST’s PQC standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA) and track Microsoft’s published deprecation timelines to avoid a last-minute scramble before 2029.
Original advisory: Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029