Your Suppliers Aren't Ready: PQC Supply Chain Readiness
· 09:05 – 10:15 Amsterdam time · Red hall
You have mapped your internal cryptographic assets, you have a migration plan, and you know which algorithms you are moving to. Then you open a ticket with your HSM vendor, your cloud key management provider, your identity platform, your network appliance manufacturer, and the answers range from vague to contradictory to silent. Your suppliers are the gap between your migration plan and your migration reality.
The challenge is not limited to hardware security modules. Every product and service that uses cryptography (software libraries, CAs, signing services, authentication platforms, enterprise SaaS, embedded firmware) is a dependency in your PQC migration. And most of them are somewhere between Level 0 (nothing implemented) and Level 2 (production-ready but no inventory, no agility, no roadmap transparency). This session opens with a ten-minute introduction to how the PKI Consortium's PQC Maturity Model (PQCMM) works in practice, then the panel takes over: what does it actually look like to mandate PQC supplier requirements at a large institution, what do assessors find when they start evaluating products against a structured framework, and what would accelerate adoption of a common standard across the supplier ecosystem.
Attendees leave with a practical starting point: how to introduce the PQCMM into procurement for high-priority suppliers today, what to put in contracts, and how to handle the inevitable exceptions.
Speakers
- Chair · PKI Consortium
Paul van Brouwershaven is a distinguished leader in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience specializing in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). He is the owner and CEO of Digitorus and chairs the PKI Consortium and leads its Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Working Group, driving collaboration and innovation in digital trust and cryptographic agility.
- Security Architect · ING
Fred Roos is a Security Architect at the Global CISO team of ING. For more than 20 years he has been closely involved with PKI, key management and applied cryptography within ING, combining operational excellence and on-going developments with strategic approaches and focus on improving INGs security posture and compliance. Next to work, Fred is passionate about (model) trains and hiking in the mountains with the family.
- quantum safe strategy advisor · IBM
Lory Thorpe is an executive technology leader and board advisor with more than 20 years of experience shaping the strategy, commercialisation and adoption of emerging technologies across global industries. Her expertise spans advanced connectivity and communication, quantum readiness, cybersecurity, and deep tech, with a proven track record of leading innovation from research and incubation through to market adoption and industry-scale deployment, bridging the gap between breakthrough innovation and commercial outcomes. As a Senior Strategy Advisor within IBM, Lory leads the Quantum Safe agenda for industries, helping organisations prepare for the risks and opportunities of the quantum era. She is the Chair of the GSMA Post Quantum Telco Network Task Force, the first global telecom industry forum dedicated to post-quantum cryptography adoption, driving industry collaboration on quantum readiness and security. With a background in engineering and cybersecurity, Lory is a recognised speaker on emerging technologies, innovation and quantum readiness. She is passionate about responsible innovation and a champion for diversity in STEM.
- Head of Quantum Tech / Co-Founder · DB Systel
Manfred Rieck is Co-founder of the German Federal Quantum Alliance, a partnership of the government owned organizations and federal authorities Deutsche Bahn/ DB Systel, Bundesdruckerei, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Federal Employment Agency (BA), German pension insurance and BWI, the IT service provider German Armed Forces. The group is focusing on the progress quantum computing, quantum sensing and on quantum cybersecurity aspects (PQC, QKD). It is their goal to act as a Think Tank for German government and to support the industrial usage of HPC and quantum computers as well as the structured introduction of PQC in government and industry. Mr. Rieck is well embedded in the international quantum ecosystem. He is covering the industry/ business perspective and therefore he is in the board of directors of BITKOM HPC & QC, Quantum AdHoc Group of The Federation of German Industries (BDI), the Quantum Research Committee of the Münchner Kreis, the Quantum Tech World Advisory Board and re-elected as member of the Governance Board of the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC. Manfred is working in IT departments since more than 20 years in senior management positions at Deutsche Bahn, IBM and BASF. He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Bonn and an MBA from the University of Reading (UK) and is a certified Information Security Officer.
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