Move to quantum-resistant cryptography in steps you can fund and defend

Horizen Labs helps organizations find where quantum risk sits in their estate, decide what to fix first, and migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography without disrupting the systems they run today. Every engagement can start with the Quantum Threat Assessment, a human-led review delivered in 5 to 10 working days at a fixed fee.

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The four stages of quantum security migrations

A quantum-resistant migration moves through four stages: govern, assess and plan, remediate, and sustain. Horizen Labs offers services at every stage, and each can be commissioned on its own. The Quantum Threat Assessment shows which stage your organization is in and which services you need next.

Select a stage to see its services

Govern

Give quantum risk an owner, a budget and a place on the board agenda.

Usually forBoards, CFOs, chief risk officers and CISOs
  • Executive awareness and business modellingSponsorship and a business case leadership will back.
  • Board risk oversight briefingDocumented, defensible oversight of quantum risk.
  • Quantum risk governance and complianceClear ownership and a structure later work can sit under.
  • Migration readiness maturity assessmentAn evidence-based baseline, benchmarked against your sector.

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Quantum Threat Assessment

What the assessment gives you

The Quantum Threat Assessment is a human-led review of your cryptographic estate by a Horizen Labs cryptographer. In 5 to 10 working days, at a fixed fee, it shows where quantum risk sits, ranks what to fix first and produces a costed roadmap your leadership can fund.

The assessment stands on its own. It doesn’t recommend Horizen Labs products, and you’re under no obligation to work with us afterwards.

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  • A baseline of your migration readiness

    Measured across nine domains, including governance, technical estate, vendor assurance and workforce capability.

  • A prioritized view of cryptographic exposure

    Where the risk sits, ranked, with quick wins you can act on straight away.

  • A costed roadmap

    Next steps broken into modules, so leadership can fund one stage at a time.

  • A board-ready risk snapshot

    A concise summary your board, auditors and regulators can read without translation.

Need a mandate before you can commission an assessment?

A Horizen Labs executive briefing gives your leadership team a shared view of the quantum threat, the cost of waiting and a mandate to act. It is written in plain language, covers current regulatory deadlines and ends with five actions leadership can approve the same day.

Customized to your needs

How we work with you

Every Horizen Labs engagement starts with a joint scoping session and a fixed price. You commission only the services you need, effort scales with your organization’s size, jurisdictions and estate complexity, and work is delivered remotely or at your site. Findings are written for boards, auditors and regulators.

  • Scoped together

    Fixed-price engagements are confirmed after a joint scoping session, so the price reflects your estate rather than a generic band.

  • Only get what you need

    Every service stands alone. Combine them into a program only when it makes sense for you.

  • Sized to your estate

    Effort scales with organization size, jurisdictions and estate complexity.

  • Remote or onsite

    Every service can be delivered remotely or at your site, whichever suits your team.

Our enterprise engagement model

The Horizen Labs enterprise engagement model is a four-step, engineering-led method for moving an organization to quantum-resistant cryptography. It starts with the Quantum Threat Assessment, builds a verified cryptographic inventory, turns that inventory into prioritized analysis, and ends with phased implementation and knowledge transfer to your own teams.

  1. Step 1

    Quantum Threat Assessment

    A human-led review of your architecture and documentation that highlights your most critical risk areas. A Horizen Labs cryptographer analyzes your current security posture, identifies high-value assets and determines your quantum exposure across enterprise infrastructure.

  2. Step 2

    Cryptographic Inventory (CBOM)

    Discovery tooling deployed on your premises catalogs the cryptography in your systems, and our cryptographers verify what it finds. The resulting Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) records every encryption protocol, certificate, key exchange mechanism and cryptographic library across your network, including legacy systems and shadow IT.

  3. Step 3

    Quantum Security Analysis

    We turn the raw technical data from the CBOM into a clear, actionable report with fewer false positives and specific countermeasures. The analysis ranks vulnerabilities by business impact, sets out migration roadmaps, and pairs executive briefings with detailed technical specifications for your engineering teams.

  4. Step 4

    Implementation

    Engineering work to replace legacy cryptography with quantum-resistant standards. We provide hands-on implementation support and phased rollouts that minimize operational disruption, align your systems with the NIST quantum-resistant standards (FIPS 203, 204 and 205), and transfer knowledge to your internal teams for long-term sustainability.

Why us

Your partner for quantum readiness

Horizen Labs is a cryptography company with 20+ cryptographic, AI and quantum security experts, including multiple PhDs, and production systems in operation since 2019. Its quantum security work is human-led: cryptographers review each estate and apply judgment to every finding, rather than handing over automated scanner output.

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    Applied cryptographic expertise

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    Human-led, not tool-led

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    Production-proven since 2019

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    Full-stack delivery

FAQ

Questions we hear most

For background on the threat, see our quantum security resources. For anything specific to your organization, book a free scoping call.

What is “harvest now, decrypt later”?

Harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) is when adversaries copy encrypted data today and store it until quantum computers can break the encryption protecting it. Any data that must stay confidential for years is therefore exposed now, even though the quantum computer that could read it doesn’t exist yet.

Why act before a quantum computer exists?

Moving an enterprise’s cryptography takes years, and data intercepted today is already at risk. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its first quantum-resistant standards, FIPS 203, 204 and 205, in August 2024. Yet ISACA’s 2025 Quantum Computing Pulse Poll of 2,685 professionals found only 5% of organizations have a defined quantum computing strategy.

What is the Quantum Threat Assessment?

The Quantum Threat Assessment is a human-led review by Horizen Labs that shows where your cryptographic exposure sits, what to fix first and what it will cost. It takes 5 to 10 working days at a fixed fee, and you receive a board-ready risk snapshot and a costed roadmap.

How is this different from a cryptographic scanning tool?

A scanner shows where cryptography is used. The Quantum Threat Assessment explains what that means for your business. A PhD cryptographer weighs each exposure against data sensitivity, system dependencies and the regulatory dates that apply to you, and a senior specialist reviews every finding.

Will you recommend Horizen Labs products?

No. Horizen Labs assessments never recommend Horizen Labs products. Recommendations follow your estate and your risk, and you’re under no obligation to work with us after the assessment.

We’ve already started migrating. Can we start partway through?

Yes. Every service can be commissioned on its own, so you can start at the stage that fits. Remediation work starts from a completed cryptographic inventory and an approved target design, which we can produce or take from your existing work.

How is pricing set?

Every engagement has a fixed price agreed after a joint scoping session. The price reflects the size and complexity of your estate and the jurisdictions you operate in. Application and vendor work is quoted in bands of 10, 25 or 50.

Which standards and regulations do you work to?

Horizen Labs aligns work to the NIST quantum-resistant standards (FIPS 203, 204 and 205) and to the guidance that applies to you, such as the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Information Security Manual, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) for financial services, and your sector regulators.

Not sure where you fit?

Tell us what your board, regulator or security team is asking. In one call we’ll map you to a starting point and what it would involve.