Introduction
The Q-TR Proof of Concept & Simulation Environment is QSD’s internal validation track for turning platform concepts into testable workflows. It is designed to demonstrate how cryptographic assets can be discovered or registered, prioritised, moved through migration states, tested in sandbox scenarios and reported through a shared governance layer.
2026 Strategic Relevance
PQC guidance is maturing from standards into implementation practice. NIST’s final KEM guidance and 2026 crypto-agility work both emphasise secure operational use and repeatable change mechanisms, while European timelines are pushing organisations toward concrete transition planning. A PoC environment is therefore valuable when it proves governance and engineering assumptions before enterprise rollout: discovery data quality, hybrid patterns, performance, policy controls, evidence capture, rollback and dependency tracking. The purpose of the Q-TR PoC is to turn those questions into observable workflows and measurable results.
Project Objective
- Validate the Q-TR data model for cryptographic assets, dependencies and ownership.
- Demonstrate risk-based transition prioritisation and migration-wave tracking.
- Test hybrid migration, rollback, exception and evidence workflows.
- Create realistic dashboards for technical teams, programme owners and executives.
Proposed Workstreams
- Discovery data and asset modelling
- Risk scoring and prioritisation
- Sandbox / transition simulation
- Governance and evidence workflows
- Dashboard and reporting validation
QSD Contribution
QSD owns the PoC concept and uses it as an internal validation environment for the Q-TR operating model. The work concentrates on asset and dependency modelling, prioritisation logic, migration-state workflows, sandbox scenarios, exception and rollback handling, evidence capture and audience-specific dashboards. External pilot organisations may be invited to contribute representative use cases without implying production deployment readiness.