DigiCert has announced the general availability of DigiCert Quantum Central, designed to help enterprises move beyond post-quantum cryptography (PQC) planning and establish a measurable programme for quantum readiness.
The urgency is growing. According to DigiCert’s 2026 Quantum Readiness Outlook, 87% of organizations are planning, testing or implementing PQC initiatives, yet only 7% have deployed quantum-safe or hybrid cryptography. This exposes a significant execution gap between recognizing quantum risk and actually mitigating it.
Quantum Central addresses one of the biggest challenges: fragmented cryptographic visibility. It consolidates information from DigiCert ONE, network scans, certificate lifecycle platforms, key vaults, CSV files and software or cryptographic bills of materials into a unified inventory.
Organizations can then define cryptographic policies, identify violations, prioritize remediation and assign ownership. Integration with workflows including Jira and DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager helps translate identified risks into operational action.
An inventory-aware AI assistant helps teams interpret cryptographic exposure and identify appropriate next steps. Centralized dashboards provide visibility into remediation status, policy compliance and overall cryptographic posture, while APIs allow additional systems and cryptographic data to be connected.
The broader challenge is that migrating to quantum-safe security will be a multiyear transformation, particularly for enterprises operating complex legacy applications, infrastructure and PKI environments. Organizations therefore need crypto-agility—the ability to discover, replace and manage cryptographic algorithms without disrupting business operations.
This is particularly important against the “harvest now, decrypt later” threat, where encrypted information captured today could potentially be decrypted when sufficiently capable quantum computers become available.
The significance of Quantum Central is therefore its attempt to make PQC operational rather than theoretical. For CISOs, the priority is shifting from asking when quantum computing will become a threat to understanding where vulnerable cryptography exists today, who owns it and how quickly it can be migrated.
Quantum readiness is no longer only a future-security discussion—it is becoming a present-day cryptographic engineering and governance programme.
Resources:
· Organizations can deploy PQC today to protect their network traffic from harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Read ourwhite paper, Recommendations for Quantum Safe TLS, for more details.
· Check the quantum readiness of your organizations and others’ websites with our online PQC Checker.
· Learn the basics about post quantum cryptography and understand the urgency to start quantum readiness now in DigiCert’s PQC for Dummies Guide.
