{"id":240056,"date":"2026-07-01T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/microsoft-accelerates-quantum-safe-roadmap-as-risks-grow"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:08:26","slug":"microsoft-accelerates-quantum-safe-roadmap-as-risks-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/microsoft-accelerates-quantum-safe-roadmap-as-risks-grow","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft accelerates quantum-safe roadmap as risks grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-accelerates-quantum-safe-roadmap-as-risks-grow.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in quantum computing are bringing the need to replace today\u2019s encryption standards sooner than previously expected.<\/p>\n<p>Although today\u2019s quantum computers cannot crack modern encryption, security researchers have warned about \u201charvest now, decrypt later\u201d attacks. In these attacks, encrypted data that is stolen today is stored until future quantum computers become powerful enough to decrypt it, exposing sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, companies including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/apple-adds-pq3-quantum-resistant-encryption-to-imessage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2023\/08\/protecting-chrome-traffic-with-hybrid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/signal-adds-new-cryptographic-defense-against-quantum-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Signal<\/a> have begun integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to replace existing public-key encryption algorithms with quantum-resistant versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in quantum computing are bringing the need to replace today\u2019s encryption standards sooner than previously expected. Although today\u2019s quantum computers cannot crack modern encryption, security researchers have warned about \u201charvest now, decrypt later\u201d attacks. In these attacks, encrypted data that is stolen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,41,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}