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Beyond Cryptography: The Strategic Dilemma of Post-Quantum Readiness

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Author: Altan Tugay Bulut, CISA, CISM, CCNA, CCSP, CISSP, OSCP, OSWE
Date Published: 14 October 2026
Read Time: 12 minutes

Cybersecurity leadership today often takes the form of triage with constant resource exhaustion. Numbers from Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) show that known-vulnerability exploitation became the most common initial access vector in breaches, rising to 31% of cases, while ransomware increased to 48% of all breaches and third-party involvement rose to 48%...

 

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