At Least Your Data Is Protected

You can protect the target of potential attacks while your inventory is underway.

By Brian Siegelwax posted 10 Nov 2026

I normally turn one conversation into one article, but Certes gave me ideas for three distinct dragons. It would be a disservice to you, dear reader, to shove them all into one article, so please enjoy this three-part series.

A well-balanced team of adventurers found an entrance to The Quantum Dragon’s cave. As the article “The” indicates, there can be only one. Therefore, he can’t guard every entrance himself, and he can’t close any of them off, because he needs to be able to come and go. Protecting his entire cave infrastructure, therefore, is proving to be quite challenging.

Hope is not lost, though. While he tries to map his cave and create an inventory of passages, the one thing he can do in the meantime is to protect his treasure himself. The adventurers found his treasure alright, but I assure you they didn’t leave with any.

Protect your treasure. I mean your data.

In a similar vein, pardon the pun, there are two schools of thought to becoming Quantum-Safe. The first is coming up with a multi-year inventory plan, akin to The Quantum Dragon mapping out all of his cave entrances and tunnels. But the second approach is simply protecting your data.

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The second approach, the Certes approach, acknowledges that bad actors are trying to steal your data, your treasure. But you can protect your data today. That’s not to say that your infrastructure should not be protected, because it absolutely should be. However, don’t forget that you can protect the very target of potential attacks while your inventory is underway.