From “Encrypt Everything” to “Encrypt for the Quantum Era”: The Upwind Cloud Cryptography Framework
For most of the last decade, cloud security teams have lived by a simple slogan: encrypt everything. Encrypt at rest. Encrypt in transit. Use customer-managed keys. Rotate them. Pass the audit. Move on. That slogan just expired. In August 2024, NIST finalized the first three post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards and explicitly told organizations: start using […]