Two waves are arriving together — and they hit the same point: the data
AI adopted by every team creates an invisible risk surface. And whoever steals encrypted data today waits for the quantum computer to open it tomorrow. You need visibility and posture on both.
The AI you don't know you have
Every team adopts models, copilots and agents on its own: it's shadow AI, an invisible risk surface in the cloud, in repositories, in apps with embedded AI. Guardium AI Security discovers it automatically, assesses vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, scans inbound and outbound prompts and governs risk with watsonx.governance.
The gap is huge: 82% of companies consider secure AI essential, but only 24% of generative AI projects are secured (source: IBM). An ungoverned AI agent isn't innovation: it's a risk with the right credentials.
Stolen today, decrypted tomorrow
"Harvest now, decrypt later": attackers collect long-lived encrypted data today — patents, health, banking data — and wait for quantum to open it. NIST already published the PQC standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, partly born in IBM labs). But inventorying and replacing a company's cryptography takes years: that's why you start now.
Guardium Quantum Safe / Cryptography Manager starts from the cryptographic inventory (only 30% of organizations have completed it), measures post-quantum risk, prioritizes and migrates with crypto-agility.
How we start
You don't need to do everything at once: you need to know where you stand. The rest is a roadmap by priority.
- Double assessment: AI inventory + cryptographic inventory
- Activation on cloud, repositories, databases and core systems
- Remediation by risk priority
- Continuous compliance in the YoctoIT Managed Services