Industry Sectors
Know your sector's quantum risk. Leave with a plan.
Free guides for 18 sectors. Score your readiness in two minutes, see what your regulators can ask for, and take a 90-day plan to your board.
How it works
From first question to board-ready plan
- 01
Score your readiness
Answer eight questions in two minutes and get your top three priorities.
- 02
See what is expected
Learn which mandates apply to your sector and what regulators can ask for.
- 03
Get your 90-day plan
Take a first-90-days plan to your team, written for how your sector works.
- 04
Compare with peers
Test your plan with people solving the same problem across the network.
Open to everyone
Choose your sector
Each guide covers the systems, mandates and deadlines that apply to you.
-
Financial services
What DORA and PCI DSS require, which records are already exposed, and a 90-day plan your board can sign off.
Open the guide -
Energy and utilities
Operational technology, long-lived control systems and the harvest-now, decrypt-later exposure of grid and plant data.
Open the guide -
Government and public sector
Citizen records, identity systems and procurement mandates against the national post-quantum timelines.
Open the guide -
Automotive and transport
Vehicle lifetimes, over-the-air signing, rail and aviation systems against the post-quantum timeline.
Open the guide -
Defence and national security
CNSA 2.0 timelines, classified data lifetimes and supplier flow-down for defence programmes.
Open the guide -
Healthcare and life sciences
Patient and genomic data, medical devices in service for decades, and the regulators that now expect a plan.
Open the guide -
Telecoms, media and broadcasting
Core, signalling and subscriber keys, broadcast and content protection, against the networking equipment deadlines of 2030.
Open the guide -
Cloud and data centres
Key management, HSM roots, PKI and tenant data at rest, and what federal and EU customers will require of providers.
Open the guide -
Water and wastewater
Treatment works, telemetry and SCADA protocols that run for decades, and the NIS2 and AWIA obligations on utilities.
Open the guide -
Manufacturing
Plant control systems, firmware signing and supply chain access, against the Cyber Resilience Act and NIS2.
Open the guide -
Space
Satellites with keys fixed at launch, ground segment command links and the EU Space Act, CNSA 2.0 and NATO timelines.
Open the guide -
Emergency services
TETRA, LTE and 5G mission-critical networks, control rooms and incident records that stay sensitive for decades.
Open the guide -
Chemicals
Process control, safety systems and formulations that stay secret for decades, against NIS2, Seveso and the Cyber Resilience Act.
Open the guide -
Food and agriculture
Plants, farms and cold chains with connected machinery, traceability records and retailer links, against NIS2 and the CRA.
Open the guide -
Smart cities and local government
Resident records, street sensors and city platforms, against NIS2, eIDAS 2 and the connected places principles.
Open the guide -
Mining and critical minerals
Remote sites, autonomous fleets and resource models, against the Critical Raw Materials Act, SOCI and the PQC timelines.
Open the guide -
AI security
Model weights, training data and inference APIs as long-lived secrets, against the AI Act, NIS2 and the PQC timelines.
Open the guide -
Boards and executives
Directors' duties, disclosure, the balance sheet and the questions a board should ask each quarter.
Open the guide
Membership
Turn your plan into skills your team can use
The guide shows you what to do. Membership gives you the training and the people to get it done.
Included courses
Train your team on the courses included in membership.
170+ expert lectures
Learn from practitioners in the member lecture library.
The weekly call
Bring questions to the network every week.
25% off partner events
Save on partner training and events.
Questions
Before you start
Are the sector guides free?
Yes. Every guide, including the two-minute readiness check and the 90-day plan, is free and open to read.
What does membership add?
Membership adds the courses, the lecture library of 170+ expert sessions, the weekly call and 25% off partner training and events. The guides stay free either way.
Is QSECDEF selling a migration product?
No. QSECDEF is a vendor-neutral membership network. We train people and connect them with peers and peer-reviewed experts. We do not sell migration software or services.
What if my sector is not listed?
Start with the guide closest to your operations, then tell us what is missing. We use those requests to decide what to publish next.
Your next step takes two minutes
Find your exposure today. Join the network when you are ready to act on it.