DigiCert's Quantum Readiness Event Tackles Enterprise Cryptography Gap

Across the enterprise landscape, organizations are launching post-quantum cryptography initiatives at a rapid pace. Yet a critical disconnect persists: most lack the quantum-safe protections needed throughout their systems.

DigiCert Inc., a digital trust company, recently released survey data that underscores this challenge. The findings revealed that 87% of organizations were in the planning, testing or implementation phases of post-quantum cryptography work. However, only 7% had actually rolled out quantum-safe or hybrid cryptography across the majority of their digital certificates.

The disparity reflects a broader problem facing enterprises: protecting critical infrastructure in an era where current cryptographic algorithms may become obsolete, potentially exposing systems to attack.

Post-quantum migration will test enterprise resilience as much as cryptographic strength. Cryptography is deeply embedded across applications, infrastructure and critical business processes, often through dependencies organizations don't fully understand. Crypto-agility gives enterprises a way to discover, prioritize and change those dependencies without putting business operations at risk. That capability needs to be built before quantum risk becomes an operational deadline.

Krista Case, theCUBE Research

DigiCert's World Quantum Readiness Day 2026, a virtual event scheduled for Sept. 17, will place quantum risk and enterprise preparation at center stage. TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming platform, will provide coverage of the event. Attendees will hear from security leaders and public key infrastructure teams discussing how to catalog cryptographic assets, sequence migration efforts, assess quantum-safe algorithms and ready their organizations for the quantum era.

AI agents and post-quantum security

As enterprises rapidly adopt artificial intelligence, DigiCert has been developing an AI Trust architecture designed to secure AI systems, their outputs and autonomous agents. The company unveiled a unified trust layer in April that spans AI agents, models and content while embedding cryptographic verification throughout the AI lifecycle.

The surge in enterprise adoption of AI agents has introduced new layers of complexity to security planning as organizations prepare for post-quantum cryptography demands. Increased reliance on agents for critical business functions has created a need for identity-based governance of autonomous systems and methods to confirm model integrity.

DigiCert's AI Agent Trust initiative includes AI Agent Passport, a tool that lets organizations specify precisely what an agent can access, what actions it can perform and where it can operate. This creates enforceable, auditable limits on autonomous behavior.

Agentic AI represents an architectural shift from human-speed identity and security to autonomous systems operating at machine speed. Identity becomes the new control plane, but identity alone isn't enough. Enterprises need cryptographically verifiable trust that establishes who an agent represents, what it's authorized to do and whether that authority can be trusted across organizational boundaries. DigiCert's Agent Passport approach brings proven internet-scale trust principles into this emerging agentic architecture.

John Furrier, theCUBE Research

From awareness to action

As enterprises update applications and weave AI into the software development life cycle, cryptographic dependencies are spreading, becoming more automated and harder to track. Research from theCUBE shows that 75% of enterprises rely on multiple separate tools throughout their development lifecycle, illustrating the complexity and inefficiency already present in managing contemporary software environments.

This year's DigiCert World Quantum Readiness Day carries the theme "From Blueprint to Build," reflecting a transition from simply understanding quantum risk to executing solutions. This shift sits within a larger conversation about how enterprises are modernizing their software, according to theCUBE Research's Paul Nashawaty.

World Quantum Readiness Day is an important reminder that post-quantum readiness is not simply a cybersecurity or infrastructure problem; it is rapidly becoming an application architecture and software lifecycle challenge. The transition to post-quantum cryptography will add another layer of complexity, requiring development teams to build crypto-agility, automated certificate management and security validation directly into CI/CD pipelines. The organizations that begin treating quantum readiness as a software modernization initiative today, not a future compliance exercise, will be better positioned to migrate without disrupting application delivery tomorrow.

Paul Nashawaty, theCUBE Research

How to access the event

TheCUBE will conduct interviews throughout DigiCert's World Quantum Readiness Day virtual event on Sept. 17. All sessions will be available on demand after they air.

Multiple viewing options are available for theCUBE's coverage, including theCUBE's website and YouTube channel. SiliconANGLE will also publish the full interview series.

TheCUBE media offerings

SiliconANGLE produces "theCUBE Pod," a podcast series available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante examine major trends in enterprise technology—spanning AI, cloud, regulation and workplace dynamics—with exclusive insights and analysis.

The outlet also produces "Breaking Analysis," a weekly program where Dave Vellante reviews the week's most significant enterprise technology stories. The program combines theCUBE reporting with data from Enterprise Technology Research and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.

Featured speakers

Executives and industry experts from DigiCert, Microsoft, AWS, evolutionQ, Atea and Thales, among others, will participate in theCUBE interviews during the Sept. 17 event. Discussions will cover how security leaders are evaluating cryptographic risk, planning their migration paths and getting ready for the quantum era.