Global Expert Network
Senior advisors and expert members embedded into your team for the decisions that shape a programme. Strategy, architecture, vendor selection, policy, regulatory positioning, board reporting.
We help teams adopt quantum technologies safely.
QSECDEF is the global membership practice for professionals and organisations working on safe quantum adoption. We work with defence ministries, governments, central banks, critical infrastructure operators - find us chatting to boards, security teams, innovation teams, investment teams and the vendors building out the quantum supply chain.
Our community is shaped by 1,200+ friendly international members representing over 600 companies across 40 countries.
How we work
Three engagement models, drawing on the same independent expert network.
Capability Mapping
Practical delivery support. Support drafting policy, defining QKD architectures, mapping a quantum sensing supply chain, or training teams in quantum fundamentals. Plus the unglamorous middle of a programme, where most quantum initiatives stall.
Enablement Programs
Structured workforce, channels and leadership development from board-level briefings to engineering certifications, delivered online and in person via our global member network.
Overview of Members Capabilities
Quantum Risk & Strategy
Board-ready positioning on quantum risk. Threat-timeline calibration, business-impact modelling, crypto-agility strategy, and the executive narrative that gets a programme funded.
Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cryptographic discovery, prioritisation, and migration planning across complex estates. PKI impact, protocol and library upgrades, hybrid deployments, assurance against NIST and equivalent national standards.
Quantum Key Distribution & Quantum Networks
Architecture review, vendor evaluation, integration with classical networks, ETSI alignment, and the operational reality of running QKD links in production.
Quantum Sensing & Emerging Capability
Capability assessment for quantum sensing, timing, navigation, and imaging. Plus the supply chains that make them deployable inside real operating environments.
Supply Chain & Procurement Assurance
Vendor capability validation, source-of-supply mapping, dual-use and export-control review, and procurement frameworks that hold up under audit. Grounded in direct working relationships with the leading vendors in the global quantum supply chain.
Standards, Certification & Regulatory
Active positioning across NIST, ETSI, ISO/IEC, and sector-specific frameworks. Building procurement standards, certification frameworks, and education initiatives for quantum-safe transitions from inside the bodies setting the rules.
Governance & Assurance
Risk frameworks, board reporting, third-party assurance, audit readiness, and the executive education that lets leadership ask the right questions.
Workforce Capability & Executive Education
Over 150 hours of expert education designed for business leaders, researchers, and technical teams, plus custom learning programmes and a curated practitioner library. Built for boards, security teams, engineering, procurement, and sales.
Who we work with
Defence & national security. Quantum-secure communications, sovereign supply chain, NATO and Five Eyes alignment.
Government & public sector. Policy development, procurement frameworks, critical national infrastructure resilience.
Financial services & central banks. Crypto-agility, PQC migration of payments and settlement, custody, and CBDC security.
Telecoms & critical infrastructure. Network-level quantum security, operator certification, and integration with existing OT and IT estates.
Quantum vendors & integrators. Standards alignment, procurement readiness, and route-to-market with serious buyers.
Research & academic institutions. Translation of research into procurement-ready capability, co-publication, and consortium formation.
600+ organisations across 40+ countries are represented in our member community, including defence ministries, NATO institutions, and Five Eyes government agencies.
Why QSECDEF
- Independent. We do not sell hardware, software, or services in the quantum stack. Our advice is not conflicted by a product line.
- Networked. 60+ expert members and 100+ expert contributors across cryptography, photonics, networks, policy, export control, and programme delivery. The disciplines that actually determine whether a quantum programme succeeds.
- Operational. Members include CISOs, heads of cryptography, and national security advisors from 40+ countries. The questions we answer are the questions they are asking.
- Vendor-fluent. Direct working relationships with the leading quantum vendors globally. We know what is shipping, what is roadmap, and what is marketing.
- Standards-active. Inside the bodies setting the rules, not waiting for the final draft to land.
Engagements typically begin with one of four conversations
“We need to train our team on quantum.”
A structured capability programme calibrated to the people you have and the decisions they need to make. Foundations for the board, working knowledge for security and engineering, deep certification for specialists, commercial fluency for sales and procurement.
Output: A team that can hold its own in vendor conversations, scope programmes credibly, and stop deferring decisions because no one in the room speaks quantum.
“We need to know where we stand.”
A structured quantum readiness diagnostic, calibrated to your sector and threat profile.
Output: A board-ready position, a credible roadmap, and a defensible budget request.
“We've made decisions; we need them validated.”
Independent review of strategy, architecture, vendor selection, or migration plan.
Output: Confidence, or course correction, before commitments are locked in.
“We need capability we don't have.”
Embedded expert support across programme delivery, training, and standards.
Output: A team that knows what it is doing. And a roadmap that survives contact with reality.
Talk to us
Engagements begin with a confidential scoping conversation. We will tell you honestly whether QSECDEF is the right route. If not, who is.
Request a scoping conversation