42 lessons · ~15 hours · PQCMM Levels 0→5

From Zero to Quantum-Ready

A plain-language course in post-quantum cryptography, PKI migration, and the PKIMM

Start with a working picture of the quantum threat, then move through the NIST standards, vendor evaluation, inventory, and migration. Official PQCMM assesses products and services; this course also uses those six levels as a personal learning scaffold.

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Who this course is for

Persona A

Motivated learner

You are building from a first security cert or adjacent IT work toward PQC migration literacy. Security+ is one example of that baseline, not a required identity.

Persona B

SMB decision-maker

You own budget and risk for a small or mid-size organization. You need plain-language stakes, vendor questions, and an honest picture of cost and timing.

Persona C

IT professional / migration executor

You run certificates, TLS, VPN, or PKI operations. You need checklists, hybrid designs, and a year-by-year path you can actually carry out.

Unit overview

Your progress

0 of 42 lessons complete

Estimated time remaining: ~15 hours

Current PQCMM level: Pre-level 0

What you will be able to do

Explain what quantum computing means for cryptography in use today, and why Harvest Now, Decrypt Later makes waiting expensive.

Describe the three NIST PQC standards — ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA — in plain language, including what they replace.

Read a vendor PQC claim critically and tell standards-compliant from marketing.

Use CBOM, crypto-agility, and discovery ideas before you rewrite infrastructure.

Sketch a hybrid-certificate and PKI-hierarchy migration that an under-resourced team can sequence.

Place your learning against the PQCMM scaffold and the PKIMM 2.0.0 organizational model.