Cloudflare recently announced that its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform has completed the required upgrade to modern post-quantum encryption standards, effectively future-proofing enterprise connectivity before quantum computers pose a real-world threat.
This comes as the National Institute of Standards and Technology has already warned organizations to upgrade their cryptographic algorithms by 2030, as quantum computers could eventually break traditional encryption. While that deadline might sound far off, attackers are already running so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” campaigns – collecting encrypted data today with the intention of cracking it once quantum systems mature. In other words, the clock is already ticking.
The upgrade for SASE is also a match for Cloudflare’s cloud-native post-quantum Secure Web Gateway and Zero Trust solution introduced last year, and with that, wide-area networking use cases through Cloudflare IPsec and the Cloudflare One Appliance, down to Zero Trust access and WAN-as-a-Service, are fully protected under updated cryptographic standards.
Additionally, the updated Psec stack now supports high-availability routing across its global infrastructure, automatically rerouting traffic to healthy data centers if one goes down, while also securing network flows with post-quantum encryption to guard against future decryption attempts. Importantly, the implementation adheres to modern Internet standards, allowing interoperability across vendors rather than locking enterprises into a closed ecosystem.
CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince stated that the goal has always been to make post-quantum security seamless rather than disruptive, and he emphasized that customers won’t need new hardware, complex configurations, or added costs to get this protection. Instead, the company is embedding post-quantum standards directly into the fabric of its network so that security upgrades don’t fragment the web or slow down adoption.
