Quantum Security Awareness (Banking Edition): Trust Anchors at Bank Scale – PKI, Signing, and Long‑Lived Evidence

About This Event

This complimentary webcast is designed for banking security leaders who need a clear, no‑nonsense understanding of the quantum threat – and what to do about it now.  The session avoids generic “PQC 101” and goes straight to what makes banking different: institutional identity and long‑lived evidence are the real blast radius.

In a bank, cryptography isn’t just protecting data in transit – it is the foundation of trust at scale: CA hierarchies, enterprise PKI, service‑to‑service mTLS, customer and workforce authentication, signed tokens (e.g., OAuth/JWT ecosystems), document and transaction signing, code‑signing in CI/CD, and the regulated archives that prove what happened, when, and under which authorization. The uncomfortable banking‑specific reality is that “confidentiality later” is only half the story: if signatures and PKI trust anchors become forgeable in the future, the bank’s ability to prove integrity, provenance, and non‑repudiation comes under pressure.

This is also why the industry drivers are accelerating. The G7 Cyber Expert Group released a roadmap specifically to coordinate the transition to post‑quantum cryptography in the financial sector, explicitly positioning PQC as a systemic resilience issue (not an isolated technical upgrade).  FS‑ISAC has likewise urged global coordination and milestones for financial services migration, framing the transition as an interdependency problem that can’t be solved bank‑by‑bank in isolation. 

On the regulatory side, the EU’s DORA technical standards don’t mention “PQC” by name – but they effectively force the behavior you need for it: a documented encryption/cryptographic controls policy, provisions to update cryptographic technology based on developments in cryptanalysis, and (critically for banks) stronger discipline around certificate and key lifecycle management, including maintaining a certificate register for critical systems. And while NIS2 raises governance expectations for “banking” as a highly critical sector, many banks will experience DORA as the sharper operational driver in practice (and the directives explicitly acknowledge that overlap). 

The session is intentionally practical: how to start with “trust anchors first,” how to sequence changes without detonating production dependencies, and how to pressure‑test vendor roadmaps so “PQC‑ready” becomes a measurable engineering claim rather than marketing.

Format: Free live webcast (multiple sessions available)

Duration: Awareness-level briefing – 1.5 hours

Cost: Free

What Will You Learn

• A bank‑specific trust map: where quantum‑vulnerable crypto sits across PKI, token signing, mTLS, signing services, CI/CD, and regulated archives.
• How to translate sector signals into action: using the G7 roadmap and FS‑ISAC milestones to set internal timelines and vendor expectations. 
• How to turn “DORA compliance” into quantum readiness: using required crypto policies, cryptanalysis‑driven update expectations, and certificate lifecycle controls as forcing functions for crypto agility. 
• Trust‑anchor‑first sequencing: what it means in practice (CA modernization, certificate inventory, signing key governance, rollover planning, hybrid boundaries).
• Vendor and third‑party reality checks: what to ask cloud providers, HSM/KMS vendors, core banking platforms, identity stacks, and managed service partners – and how to spot hand‑wavy roadmaps.
• A pragmatic “first pilots” playbook: which banking domains are most pilotable, how to contain blast radius, and what success metrics to track.

Who Should Attend

CISOs, CISO‑1 cyber leaders, PKI and IAM owners, platform security leads, crypto engineering teams, cloud/KMS/HSM owners, and third‑party / outsourcing risk leaders in banks and banking service providers.

Prerequisites

General familiarity with quantum security concepts, PQC, and large‑scale migration challenges is helpful – but not required. If you want a fast, executive‑level refresher before attending, you can optionally join Applied Quantum’s free “Quantum Security Awareness for Executives” briefing. See Applied Quantum Events. 

This Session

Wednesday, 18 Sep 2026

• Time: 7:00 AM CEST | 9:00 AM GST | 10:30 AM IST | 1:00 PM SGT | 3:00 PM AEST | 10:00 PM PDT (17 Sep)

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