Critical Infrastructure
Protect the cryptography that keeps the lights on
Energy, utilities, transport and telecom run long-lived systems whose cryptography must outlive the quantum transition. EQCore™ discovers it, prioritises the migration and keeps watch - on-prem and air-gapped, without leaving your boundary.
The threat
Long-lived systems, cryptography that has to outlast the quantum transition
Industrial and OT-adjacent estates are built to run for decades. The keys, certificates and protocols protecting them today were chosen long before a cryptographically relevant quantum computer was on the horizon - and replacing them across a live grid or network is a multi-year programme, not a patch.
01 · Lifespan
Assets outlive their crypto
Substations, control systems, metering and signalling stay in service for 15 to 30 years. The classical cryptography embedded in them has to remain trustworthy for that whole window.
02 · Harvest now
Captured today, broken later
Data and authenticated sessions intercepted now can be decrypted once quantum capability matures. For infrastructure with long confidentiality and integrity requirements, that risk is already live.
03 · Blind spots
Can’t migrate what you can’t see
Crypto is scattered across OT, IT and the seam between them - in firmware, gateways, certificates and integrations no single team fully owns. The first job is an honest inventory.
Regulatory context
The bar for operators of essential services is rising
Across jurisdictions, critical-infrastructure mandates (Australia's SOCI Act, the EU's NIS2, India's CERT-In and NCIIPC, the UAE's DESC and IAR, and sector regulators worldwide) are converging on the same demand: demonstrable cryptographic risk management, supply-chain assurance and incident readiness. Together they are a powerful driver to start your post-quantum programme now, while you still have years to do it methodically.
01
The floor is rising
Regimes like the EU's NIS2 and Australia's SOCI Act widen scope and stiffen expectations on risk management and accountability for operators of essential services across energy, transport and digital infrastructure.
02
Sector mandates stack on top
National and sector regulators add their own cryptographic and resilience requirements. A defensible inventory and migration plan is the evidence those obligations increasingly ask for.
03
Map to the frameworks you report against
EQCore maps findings to established frameworks today, so the work you do for the quantum transition doubles as evidence for the audits you already face.
Why now
The migration is multi-year; the regulatory clock has already started. Treating these mandates as the trigger to begin discovery gives you a calm runway instead of a rushed, audit-driven scramble later.
How EQCore helps
Discover, plan and watch: inside your boundary
EQCore is built for sovereign estates. Discovery is posture and inventory detection: it maps what you run rather than exploiting it, so you can survey OT-adjacent networks without the intrusiveness of a penetration test.
Discover
See across the estate
CipherScout™ surveys the cryptography across your network, certificates, applications and data layer. Scans are target-bound and egress-guarded, so discovery stays measured and within scope.
Deploy sovereign
On-prem & air-gapped
Deploy EQCore as a sovereign on-prem appliance or run it fully air-gapped alongside isolated OT-adjacent segments. The on-prem box walks and maps topology from inside your own network, so your keys and data stay within your boundary.
Prioritise
Plan and execute the migration
Each finding is scored for quantum risk and mapped to a NIST control, then classified as a key-exchange or signature swap. EQCore turns the CBOM into a prioritised, framework-filtered plan, and CipherForge performs the swap with its own formally verified implementation.
Monitor
Keep watch over time
CipherWatch™ raises alerts on every scan and on your schedule, so new or changed cryptographic exposure surfaces as your estate evolves - routed to the tools your SOC already uses.
Built for uptime
Discovery runs on a schedule, target-bound, with egress guards on every scanner socket. EQCore plans and orchestrates the migration; the post-quantum algorithm operations run through our own CipherForge PQC service - so the platform that surveys your estate is not the one swinging crypto in production.
Compliance mapping
Findings mapped to the frameworks you report against
Every finding carries a NIST control reference and EQCore maps your cryptographic posture to the established frameworks below today. Sector and regional mappings, including NIS2, are on the roadmap.
How it works
Your governance framework selects a post-quantum compliance regime, and recommendations are filtered to the approved algorithms for that regime. EQCore maps findings against compliance regimes across the US, Australia, the UAE, India, Malaysia and international standards. If the framework you report against isn't covered yet, we can map it quickly.
Start the quantum transition before the clock forces it
Book a discovery scan and get a Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) of the cryptography running across your infrastructure - sovereign by default.