Cloudflare Achieves Complete Secure Access Service Edge for Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

Cloudflare announced it has achieved a complete secure access service edge to support modern post-quantum encryption standards. The company said, "By integrating advanced post-quantum encryption across all its major network configurations, the Cloudflare One SASE platform now provides the most secure bridge between corporate environments and its global network-which is one of the largest in the world. This allows any organization to protect its most sensitive data against the next generation of cyber threats, ensuring a seamless transition to new cryptographic standards. As the possibility of quantum computing nears, the encryption that protects our most sensitive healthcare, banking, personal data, and more, faces a reckoning that could render current security measures obsolete. To preempt this, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a clear warning: upgrade cryptographic algorithms by 2030, or fall victim to the powerful quantum computers that will be able to break traditional cryptography. While that deadline may seem distant, upgrading global infrastructure is a massive undertaking. Threat actors are already exploiting this lag time through "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks-collecting encrypted state secrets, financial records, and health data that they can unlock in the future, once quantum computers mature. As the gap between legacy encryption and the power of quantum computing fades, organizations must implement immediate protection, or risk leaving their most valuable assets exposed."