Orange Business and Cisco have announced a collaboration to deploy Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) secured solutions across Orange’s global network infrastructure. Orange becomes the first European service provider to offer PQC-secured global network services utilizing the Cisco 8000 Series Secure Routers, which are specifically engineered for quantum-safe connectivity. This initiative is designed to mitigate the “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” threat, where sensitive data intercepted today could be decrypted in the future once sufficiently powerful quantum computers become available.

The technical integration focuses on making the Cisco SD-WAN infrastructure—including both its control and data planes—quantum-safe. By…