Bain & Company announces strategic collaboration with IBM to deliver post-quantum cryptography assessment to private equity and corporate clients

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[{"type":"text","content":"Collaboration pairs IBM Consulting's quantum safe transformation expertise with Bain's market leading capabilities in due diligence ","length":139,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"BOSTON, March 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today announced it will work with IBM to deliver expertise to private equity and corporate clients on post-quantum cryptography risks and strategic mitigations.","length":218,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"image","alt":"(PRNewsfoto/Bain & Company)","displaySize":"","headline":null,"caption":"(PRNewsfoto/Bain & Company)","className":"","disableSlideshowImg":false,"size":{"original":{"width":400,"height":187,"url":"https://media.zenfs.com/en/prnewswire.com/402af75a54314fa6c75c6ca839359a93"},"resized":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ChoS4HlsPFPT1PfTQXHGNg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTMzMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/prnewswire.com/402af75a54314fa6c75c6ca839359a93","width":400,"height":187}},"href":"https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/818197/Bain_and_Company_Logo.html","hrefExternal":true,"rel":"nofollow"},{"type":"text","content":"The strategic collaboration brings together the companies' deep cybersecurity expertise including IBM Consulting's quantum-safe transformation services and Bain's market-leading capabilities in diligence to provide clients a state-of-the-art assessment of resilience in the fast-emerging post-quantum world. This will enable clients to take vital mitigation measures and integrate PQC into strategic and operational plans.","length":434,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"With quantum computing advancing rapidly from theoretical research to commercialization of real-world applications, the technology poses a credible and growing risk to current encryption standards that protect companies' sensitive data, proprietary expertise, and intellectual property. In turn, this could create substantial and material business and investment risks for private equity and corporate buyers.","length":413,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) solutions can effectively mitigate these fast-evolving cybersecurity risks. However, recent Bain research found that while corporate tech leaders see PQC becoming an urgent necessity, few currently have a clear strategy in place to deliver the complex ...

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