How to use this knowledge base
This base serves three audiences — employees, IT and security teams, and leadership. Here are the reading paths so you land on the material written for you.
Post-quantum readiness touches everyone in an organization, but not in the same way. Rather than read every article, follow the path that matches your role. Each article is tagged with an audience (everyone, IT, or leadership) and a level (intro, working, or deep), so you can gauge fit before you commit.
If you are an employee
You do not need to understand lattices or key exchange to keep the organization safe. Your leverage is everyday security hygiene — strong unique passwords, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, spotting social engineering. Start in the Security awareness collection, and take the Account Security Essentials course. The single most valuable thing most people can do this month is turn on a passkey or hardware second factor on their important accounts.
If you run IT or security
Your path is the operational one: understand the threat precisely in Foundations, then move into the Migration playbook and IT & security playbooks. The core sequence is discover, assess, prioritize, plan, execute, validate — and it begins with a cryptographic inventory, because you cannot migrate cryptography you have not found. The Post-Quantum Practitioner course maps to this path end to end.
If you are a leader or decision-maker
You need the risk framed in business terms and a defensible plan to fund. Read Why post-quantum, and why now and The road to quantum-readiness for the shape of the journey, then the Governance & program collection for roles, budget, metrics, and how to brief an executive team. The headline you need is that this is a multi-year migration driven by data that is being recorded today — so the cost of waiting is not zero.
Levels at a glance
"Intro" assumes no background and explains the why. "Working" is for people who will make or apply decisions. "Deep" gets into mechanism and edge cases. If an article feels too shallow or too dense, check its level tag and follow a related link up or down.
Every article links to related terms in the Glossary and to relevant courses. When a term is unfamiliar, follow it — the definitions are written to be read cold. When you want to go deeper on a topic, the related-articles links are curated to be the sensible next step.