{"id":240141,"date":"2026-07-02T02:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/microsoft-accelerates-post-quantum-cryptography-shift-to-2029"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:34:55","slug":"microsoft-accelerates-post-quantum-cryptography-shift-to-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/microsoft-accelerates-post-quantum-cryptography-shift-to-2029","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-accelerates-post-quantum-cryptography-shift-to-2029.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvances in quantum research and development have shifted the risk horizon,\u201d Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/microsoft-advances-quantum-safe-security-as-the-risk-timeline-shifts\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe believe cryptographically relevant quantum computers could arrive sooner than previously expected \u2013 and the work required to prepare is significant, so organizations need to start now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To that end, the Windows maker is speeding up the Microsoft Quantum Safe Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/building-your-cryptographic-inventory-a-customer-strategy-for-cryptographic-posture-management\/\">QSP<\/a>) timeline with the goal of transitioning critical products and services to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by 2029. The company is also planning to incorporate PQC requirements into its Secure Future Initiative (<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/11\/microsoft-launches-windows-resiliency.html\">SFI<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Some key focus areas include upgrading network cryptography by adopting TLS 1.3, building crypto-agility for stored data to facilitate the ability to change cryptography without having to redesign the underlying systems, and transitioning to PQC algorithms to secure trust chains, such as code signing, certificate issuance, key protection, and update pipelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAdvances in quantum research and development have shifted the risk horizon,\u201d Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, said. \u201cWe believe cryptographically relevant quantum computers could arrive sooner than previously expected \u2013 and the work required to prepare is significant, so organizations need to start now.\u201d To that end, the Windows maker is speeding [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240141","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=240141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}