DigiCert's quantum readiness event to showcase enterprise cryptography gap

Across the enterprise landscape, post-quantum cryptography work is underway at most organizations, yet the actual deployment of quantum-safe protections remains far behind. Digital trust provider DigiCert Inc. recently released survey data revealing this disconnect: 87% of companies reported they were in the planning, testing or implementation phases of post-quantum cryptography initiatives, but a mere 7% had rolled out quantum-safe or hybrid cryptography solutions across the majority of their digital certificates.

The findings underscore a critical challenge facing enterprises as they work to safeguard systems in an era where current cryptographic algorithms could become vulnerable to attack. According to theCUBE Research's Krista Case, "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."

DigiCert's World Quantum Readiness Day 2026 will take place as a virtual event on Sept. 17, with coverage provided by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming platform. The event will bring together security leaders and public key infrastructure teams to discuss inventory management of cryptographic assets, migration prioritization, quantum-safe algorithm evaluation and preparation strategies for the quantum era.

AI agents add new security layers

As enterprises accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence, DigiCert has been developing an AI Trust architecture designed to secure AI systems, their outputs, autonomous agents and AI models. 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 expansion of AI agents within enterprise environments has introduced additional complexity to the security landscape, particularly as organizations prepare for post-quantum cryptography demands. The growing reliance on agents to handle critical business functions has created a need for identity-based governance of autonomous systems and mechanisms to verify model integrity.

DigiCert's AI Agent Passport offering enables organizations to establish precise boundaries around agent capabilities—defining what resources an agent can access, what actions it can perform and where it can operate. This approach creates enforceable, auditable limits on autonomous behavior.

According to theCUBE Research's John Furrier, "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."

Moving from strategy to execution

As organizations modernize applications and integrate AI into software development workflows, cryptographic dependencies are becoming increasingly distributed, automated and difficult to track. Research from theCUBE shows that 75% of enterprises operate with multiple separate tools across their development lifecycle, illustrating the existing complexity and inefficiency in managing contemporary software environments.

This year's DigiCert World Quantum Readiness Day carries the theme "From Blueprint to Build," reflecting a transition from quantum awareness toward concrete implementation efforts. 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."

Event coverage and viewing options

TheCUBE will conduct interviews throughout DigiCert's World Quantum Readiness Day virtual event on Sept. 17, with on-demand access to exclusive content available after each session. Viewers can access the interviews through theCUBE's dedicated website and YouTube channel, with full coverage also published on SiliconANGLE.

SiliconANGLE produces "theCUBE Pod," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube, where hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante discuss major trends in enterprise technology including AI, cloud infrastructure, regulation and workplace dynamics. The outlet also publishes "Breaking Analysis," a weekly program where Vellante reviews top enterprise technology stories, combining theCUBE insights with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research, available across the same podcast platforms.

Participating organizations

TheCUBE's interview series during the Sept. 17 event will feature executives and industry specialists from DigiCert, Microsoft, AWS, evolutionQ, Atea and Thales, among others. Discussions will focus on how security leaders are evaluating cryptographic risk, planning migration strategies and preparing for the quantum computing era.