A breach does not always finish when an attacker leaves the network. In the post-quantum era, the more damaging part may arrive years later. Harvest Now, Decrypt Later operates on an uncomfortable premise: encrypted information stolen today may become readable years later when advanced decryption capabilities mature. Adversaries can collect encrypted information today, preserve it quietly, and wait for future quantum capabilities to weaken the cryptography protecting those records. For United States enterprise leaders, this shifts quantum risk from a distant science problem into a present data protection concern. The central issue is not whether a cryptographically releva…

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