On June 22, 2026, the President signed two quantum executive orders, and EO 14412 set hard federal deadlines for post-quantum cryptography: key establishment by December 31, 2030 and digital signatures by December 31, 2031. AxiSentinel evaluates whether an organization's AI systems, evidence chains, and infrastructure meet the cryptographic standard each deadline actually requires.
Last verified: 23 October 2026
0 industry-specific mandates and 61 that apply across all industries, worldwide.
Next date for this industry: 1 Nov 2026, Egypt PDPL compliance period ends.
See all 61 mandates →For 30 years, RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography protected everything from TLS sessions to signed audit records. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer breaks both. The government's answer arrived not as a single law but as a stack of deadlines, standards, and acquisition rules, most of them binding now, some on a clock that starts the day a system is built, not the day it's attacked.
A cryptographic inventory is a point-in-time spreadsheet. AxiSentinel is built for the years between now and 2030, while migration is actually happening system by system.
From NIST's finalized standards to the executive orders enforcing them, AxiSentinel tracks the full stack of quantum-security obligations bearing down on AI infrastructure.
The finalized key-encapsulation and digital-signature standards every federal PQC deadline is measured against.
Signed June 22, 2026. Directs federal agencies and their contractors onto a hard PQC migration schedule running through 2031.
The NSA's phased quantum-safe timeline for National Security Systems, with the first acquisition deadline already in force.
All remaining FIPS 140-2 certificates moved to Historical status on September 21, 2026; only FIPS 140-3-validated cryptographic modules are acceptable for new federal procurement.
Requires federal agencies to inventory IT systems vulnerable to quantum decryption and prioritize migration once NIST standards are published, the standards are now published.
Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/1101 (11 April 2024), operationalized by the NIS Cooperation Group's roadmap. Non-binding on member states but sets the EU-wide reference timeline.
Published 20 March 2025 by the National Cyber Security Centre. Not mandatory, but the reference timeline UK organizations are measured against.
General-purpose AI risk-management frameworks that already apply to any AI system whose cryptographic posture is part of its own risk profile.
From a single cryptographic module to an entire federal system portfolio, AxiSentinel evaluates the software and evidence continuously, not just at audit time.
Organizations use AI to inventory cryptography, prioritize post-quantum migration and plan quantum investments. Federal migration timelines make these long-running decisions that must be revisited as standards and threats change.
Quantum progress threatens the encryption that protects AI models, training data and signed evidence today. AxiLayer AI works hand in hand with your cybersecurity team to test, monitor and evidence that these AI systems stay secure, under your written authorization.
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Status as of 28 October 2026. General information, not legal advice. Certifications, CE marking and regulated assessments named here are issued by the bodies the law designates.
Nothing about AxiSentinel's core architecture changes for post-quantum evidence. What changes is which RegDef packages are switched on and what telemetry the agents capture from a system's cryptographic configuration.
Agents capture cryptographic-configuration and key-management telemetry on the cadence you configure, Always On or scheduled, in full rather than sampled, and never limited to a quarterly cycle.
Every telemetry event evaluated against the applicable post-quantum standard, per configuration change.
Every audit record is linked to the one before it in a signed, tamper-evident evidence chain, verifiable from the first event.
A compliance state change on one system or an entire portfolio propagates network-wide as it happens.
Nothing becomes a compliance finding until a qualified AxiLayer AI auditor reviews and signs it.
AXI-Node agents deploy on isolated federal and defense networks, with the .axibatch format available for environments with no external connectivity.
Tracks human involvement in migration decisions and sign-off, feeding into AxiSentinel's oversight-gap scoring model.
The same agents generating compliance evidence watch for weak-algorithm fallback, misconfigured hybrid deployments, and unauthorized use of deprecated ciphers before a re-certified release reaches production.
New standard, deadline, or jurisdiction-specific rules are added by encoding new RegDef packages. Deployed agents are never rebuilt.
Scoped to your organization during onboarding, not hard-coded into the platform.
A threshold breach becomes a flagged, timestamped, evidence-linked Provisional Alert, reviewed by a qualified AxiLayer AI auditor before anything counts as a finding.
The same architecture monitoring a cryptographic migration monitors a trading desk's model or a hospital's diagnostic AI. What changes is which RegDef packages are switched on.
NIST finalized FIPS 203, 204 and 205 in August 2024, the standards every post-quantum deadline is measured against. Executive Order 14412, signed 22 June 2026, requires federal high-value systems to move to PQC key establishment by 31 December 2030 and PQC digital signatures by 31 December 2031. Since 21 September 2026, only FIPS 140-3-validated modules are acceptable for new federal procurement.
From 1 January 2027. Under CNSA 2.0, new National Security System acquisitions and networking equipment must be quantum-safe from that date, and operating systems and web and cloud services must use quantum-safe algorithms exclusively by 2033. Contractors should also watch for a FAR rule, to be proposed by about 19 December 2026, extending PQC requirements to contractors, subcontractors and cloud providers.
It is the risk that encrypted data stolen today is decrypted once a quantum computer can break RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography; for sensitive data, the harvest may already have happened. Federal agencies must already inventory quantum-vulnerable systems under the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act. Expect to show a continuous inventory of the algorithms in use and which data classes remain exposed.
It is a third-party assessment of whether an organization's AI systems, evidence chains and infrastructure use the cryptography each deadline requires. It covers algorithm inventories, FIPS 140-3 module validation, key management, model-weight encryption and whether signed audit records can switch algorithms without losing integrity. A qualified AxiLayer AI auditor reviews and signs every finding.
AxiLayer AI evaluates cryptographic posture continuously with AxiSentinel against the rules that apply in each market, from NIST FIPS 203, 204 and 205 and EO 14412 to CNSA 2.0, the EU PQC roadmap and the UK NCSC timeline, tracking migration system by system. Every finding is reviewed and signed by a qualified AxiLayer AI auditor. Request a briefing to review your migration status.
Last verified: 23 October 2026. See every mandate for this industry on the AI Audit Mandates Map.
Whether it's a single cryptographic module or an entire federal system portfolio, AxiSentinel evaluates it the same way it evaluates any AI system: on the cadence you configure, Always On or scheduled, with full evidence, and with a human signature before anything counts as a finding.
