Inside the 2026 State of Crypto Agility Report: Learnings from 500 security leaders

Crypto agility has entered its execution era. One year after our inaugural State of Crypto Agility report found high awareness but lagging action, our 2026 research with 500 senior IT and cybersecurity leaders across North America, EMEA and APAC shows organizations moving from planning to execution.

Quantum assessments have nearly tripled. Certificate visibility has more than doubled. Yet 61% still experienced a certificate-related outage last year, only 4% are fully automated, and 78% expect today's PKI to change substantially to support post-quantum cryptography. Meanwhile, agentic AI is introducing an entirely new class of identity to secure.

Join Sectigo's Jason Soroko and Nick France as they unpack what changed since 2025, what the 200-day certificate era is revealing about operational readiness, why Merkle Tree Certificates point to the architectural choices ahead, and how to build one digital trust foundation for continuous change, before validity drops to 100 days in March 2027.

• One year on: from awareness to execution. What changed between the 2025 and 2026 research, and why the samples (and the story) grew
• The 200-day era in practice: visibility up, outages persist. Inventory (28% → 62%), the 61% outage stat, and automation beyond renewal
• PQC becomes an architecture project: 38% fully assessed, 78% expect PKI to change, Google/Cloudflare 2029, EO 14412, and Merkle Tree Certificates
• Agentic AI and the next identity challenge: authenticating, constraining and revoking autonomous agents
• Building one foundation: confidence vs evidence, and the capabilities that serve all three pressures
• Live Q&A