QIZ Security and Google Cloud partner on quantum-safe encryption

The race to protect sensitive data from future quantum computers just gained fresh momentum. QIZ Security, a cryptographic posture management startup, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud designed to help enterprises accelerate their migration to quantum-resistant cryptography, a shift that regulators and technologists increasingly regard as urgent.

The partnership combines QIZ’s platform, which discovers and inventories cryptographic assets across hybrid environments, with Google Cloud’s global infrastructure and security tooling. Together, they aim to give organisations unified visibility into cryptographic risk spanning cloud workloads, on-premises systems, applications, databases, and broader infrastructure.

At the heart of the initiative is a problem the security community has warned about for years: quantum computers are expected to eventually break widely used public-key cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. That prospect has given rise to so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, in which adversaries intercept and stockpile encrypted data today with the intention of decrypting it once sufficiently powerful quantum machines become available.

The timeline for that scenario appears to be shrinking. In March 2026, Google shortened its internal deadline for completing a full migration to post-quantum cryptography, targeting 2029, years ahead of the US government’s own benchmarks. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finalised its first three post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024, codifying algorithms such as ML-KEM and ML-DSA that are designed to withstand quantum attacks. Regulatory pressure is mounting in parallel: the NSA’s CNSA 2.0 suite mandates quantum-resistant algorithms for new national security system acquisitions from January 2027, and the European Union published a coordinated implementation roadmap in mid-2025 aiming for critical infrastructure resilience by 2030.

QIZ’s platform addresses the operational complexity of that transition. It performs enterprise-wide cryptographic discovery, identifies quantum-vulnerable encryption, prioritises risk, generates migration roadmaps, and supports ongoing governance and regulatory compliance. Deployed within Google Cloud environments, it analyses cryptographic posture across distributed systems, giving security teams a single pane of glass for what can otherwise be a sprawling, opaque problem.

The collaboration targets regulated sectors, including financial services, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure, where the consequences of a cryptographic breach would be especially severe and where compliance deadlines are tightest. For these organisations, the challenge is not merely adopting new algorithms but understanding where legacy encryption lives, how it interacts with other systems, and which assets carry the greatest exposure.

Industry momentum behind post-quantum cryptography has accelerated sharply in the past year. Research published between May 2025 and March 2026 dramatically reduced estimates of the quantum resources needed to break RSA-2048, compressing timelines that once seemed comfortably distant. Major cloud providers, government agencies, and standards bodies are now moving in concert, making crypto-agility, the ability to swap cryptographic primitives without rebuilding entire systems, a baseline expectation rather than a theoretical ambition.

For enterprises that have yet to begin their cryptographic inventory, the QIZ and Google Cloud partnership offers a structured entry point. For those already on the journey, it promises the kind of centralised management that a patchwork of manual audits and spreadsheets cannot provide. Either way, the window for preparation is narrowing, and the cost of inaction is becoming harder to ignore.