Certified Post-Quantum Risk & Compliance Professional (CPQRCP)

Certified Post Quantum Risk and Compliance Professional CPQRCP prepares governance, risk, and compliance practitioners to navigate the disruptive shift to quantum safe cryptography. The program focuses on mapping cryptographic assets, assessing exposure across business processes, and translating post quantum requirements into actionable risk treatment plans. Participants learn how to interpret emerging standards from global bodies and turn them into practical control frameworks, policies, and assurance activities.

The course emphasizes the cybersecurity impact of quantum threats on confidentiality, integrity, and long term retention of sensitive data. You will learn how to protect current communications and archives against harvest now decrypt later adversaries, and how to embed quantum aware controls into enterprise cybersecurity programs, audits, and third party oversight.

Learning Objectives

• Understand post quantum threats and their impact on enterprise risk and assurance
• Build and maintain a comprehensive cryptographic asset and dependency inventory
• Perform PQC readiness and gap assessments aligned to business processes and controls
• Translate NIST, ISO, and ETSI guidance into practical policies, standards, and procedures
• Integrate quantum related risk into governance, reporting, and board level communication
• Strengthen cybersecurity posture by embedding quantum safe thinking into risk, compliance, and audit workflows

Audience

• GRC Professionals
• Auditors
• Risk Managers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• Compliance Officers
• IT Governance Leaders

Program Modules

Module 1: Foundations of Post Quantum Risk

• Classical versus post quantum cryptographic basics
• Quantum threat timeline and key misconceptions
• Harvest now decrypt later attack patterns
• Data classification and long term sensitivity analysis
• Business impact mapping for quantum exposed assets
• Linking quantum risk to enterprise risk registers

Module 2: Crypto Inventory and Exposure Mapping

• Identifying cryptographic assets across applications and systems
• Discovering certificates keys protocols and libraries in use
• Mapping data flows and cryptographic dependencies end to end
• Prioritizing high value and long lived data targets
• Documenting technical and business owners for crypto assets
• Building and maintaining a living crypto inventory repository

Module 3: PQC Readiness and Gap Assessment

• Defining PQC maturity levels and assessment criteria
• Evaluating algorithm agility in current architectures
• Assessing vendor product and platform PQC roadmaps
• Identifying technical policy and process gaps
• Building a prioritized quantum risk remediation backlog
• Reporting assessment results to executives and boards

Module 4: Standards and Regulatory Alignment for PQC

• Understanding NIST PQC standardization outcomes and timelines
• Applying ISO information security and risk standards to PQC
• Reviewing ETSI and industry specific PQC guidance
• Aligning PQC efforts with existing compliance frameworks
• Incorporating quantum considerations into policies and procedures
• Preparing defensible documentation for regulators and auditors

Module 5: Third Party and Supply Chain Assurance

• Identifying quantum relevant third party dependencies
• Designing PQC clauses for contracts and security addenda
• Questionnaires and due diligence for vendor PQC posture
• Assessing managed service and cloud provider readiness
• Monitoring ongoing third party quantum related obligations
• Escalation paths for high risk or non compliant suppliers

Module 6: Audit Evidence and Migration Governance

• Defining audit objectives for quantum safe transformations
• Evidence requirements for crypto inventory and risk decisions
• Tracing PQC migration changes through configuration records
• Integrating PQC controls into internal audit programs
• Metrics and KRIs for post quantum migration governance
• Ensuring cybersecurity and compliance alignment in migration plans

Exam Domains

1. Understanding Harvest Now Decrypt Later Threats
2. Enterprise Cryptographic Asset Discovery Techniques
3. PQC Preparedness and Maturity Assessment Methods
4. Applying Global PQC Standards and Frameworks
5. Managing Third Party and Supply Chain Quantum Risk
6. Designing Quantum Safe Audit and Evidence Programs

Course Delivery
The course is delivered through a combination of lectures, interactive discussions, guided case studies, and project based learning, facilitated by experts in post quantum risk and compliance. Participants gain access to curated online resources, including readings, reference templates, and practical tools to build crypto inventories, risk registers, and migration governance artifacts that can be adapted to their own organizations.

Assessment and Certification
Participants are assessed through quizzes, structured assignments, and a capstone style migration and risk governance proposal. Upon successful completion of the course and final assessment activities, participants will receive the Certified Post Quantum Risk and Compliance Professional CPQRCP certificate from Tonex as recognition of their specialized expertise.

Question Types

• Multiple Choice Questions MCQs
• Scenario based Questions

Passing Criteria
To pass the Certified Post Quantum Risk and Compliance Professional CPQRCP Certification Training exam, candidates must achieve a score of 70% or higher.

Elevate your role in governing quantum era risks and protecting long lived sensitive information by enrolling in the Certified Post Quantum Risk and Compliance Professional CPQRCP Certification Program by Tonex today.