Crypto Agility - How It's Both a Critical Component and a Complex Challenge

Learn about crypto agility as both a critical security component and complex organizational challenge in this 27-minute conference talk from the PKI Consortium. Explore the urgent need to prepare for quantum threats and transition from traditional cryptography to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which will impact virtually every cryptographic system and infrastructure component. Discover how organizations can gain visibility into their cryptographic estate including hardware, software, keys, certificates, and secrets while building essential crypto-agility capabilities. Understand that crypto-agility extends far beyond simply switching algorithms or systems - it encompasses people, processes, and technology working together to visualize cryptographic assets, implement policies, and drive compliance. Examine the detailed elements required to achieve a mature crypto-agile security practice and learn strategies to overcome implementation challenges. Gain insights from industry experts on defining crypto-agility for your specific organizational context and developing comprehensive approaches to cryptographic modernization in preparation for the quantum computing era.