An Open-Source Scanner That Tells You Exactly How to Get Quantum-Ready
Hackers Are Already Stealing Your Data — They Just Can't Read It Yet October 2026 was brutal. Sony Network Communications leaked 2.5 million customer records. Hackers exploited a VMmanager zero-day at FirstVDS to walk out with passwords, cloud credentials, and crypto wallet files. The University of Copenhagen exposed 525,000 people through a compromised test environment. Japan Airlines bled…
In October 2026, Sony, FirstVDS, the University of Copenhagen, Japan Airlines, and other companies suffered data breaches after hackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. The attackers stole customer records, passwords, cloud credentials and crypto wallet files. These breaches occurred while data was encrypted using classical Transport Layer Security (TLS).
CISA released an emergency directive after attackers combined a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure to steal credentials at scale. This highlights the fact that attackers can intercept and store encrypted traffic until quantum computers can decrypt it. The U.S. Department of State has confirmed that nation-state actors actively intercept and store encrypted information to decrypt later.
61% of organizations consider the "harvest-now-decrypt-later" approach as their top quantum-related concern. Therefore, the window to protect sensitive data is now, not when quantum computers arrive. The good news is that the tools to protect this data already exist. However, most teams struggle with knowing where to start the migration to post-quantum security.
Post-quantum algorithms (FIPS 203/204/205) are already standardized, and modern versions of OpenSSL, Node.js, and .NET support necessary cryptographic primitives. The bottleneck is not in the cryptography itself but in understanding what to change, where to change it, and in what order. Most teams get stuck on questions such as where TLS actually terminates in their system, what changes upgrading a dependency would make, and what the smallest and safest change they can make right now is.
pqmap is an open-source command-line interface (CLI) that addresses these questions. It scans your codebase, provides a readiness score and a concrete remediation plan, focusing on the right layer rather than guesswork. pqmap is language-agnostic and supports 50+ frameworks across seven languages. The CLI resolves imports, aliases, and dependency-injection wiring to identify the actual TLS owner in production deployments.
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