On June 22, 2026, the federal government signed twin executive orders accelerating the migration to post-quantum cryptography, with hard deadlines running through 2033. AxiSentinel evaluates whether an organization's AI systems, evidence chains, and infrastructure meet the cryptographic standard each deadline actually requires.
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 move to Historical status 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.
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 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 certified human 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.
PQC migration reaches every AI vendor with a federal or defense customer, whether or not they've noticed. AxiSentinel's evidence-chain architecture already generates continuous proof for regulated AI; cryptographic-posture evidence is a new RegDef surface on the same platform, not a new product.
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.
