Senetas at MilCIS 2026: Protecting defence data in motion for the post-quantum era
Senetas will join the defence and technology community at MilCIS 2026, at the National Convention Centre Canberra, 17–19 November.
MilCIS brings together military and government organisations, academia and defence industry to shape the future of military communications and information systems.
Why encryption comes first
NIST has just finalised its roadmap for the move to post-quantum cryptography, NIST IR 8547. It draws a clear line between authentication and encryption.
Authentication can keep using today’s algorithms until there is a quantum computer able to break them. At that point it must switch straight away. Encryption is different. Data captured from a network today can be stored and decrypted later, once that computer arrives. This is “harvest now, decrypt later”, and for defence data that must stay secret for years, the exposure has already begun.
In Australia, ASD expects organisations to have a refined post-quantum transition plan in place by the end of 2026.
That makes data in motion the first place to act. Senetas network encryptors support the NIST post-quantum standards today. They are designed in Australia, protect government and defence networks in more than 60 countries, and are upgraded in the field as standards evolve, not replaced.
Hear from Senetas at MilCIS:
The AI Is Not the Security Boundary: Governing AI Agents on Defence Networks
Julian Fay, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, and Rob Linton
Tuesday 17 November | 1:30pm – 2:30pm| Bradman Theatre
Not on My Network: Saying Yes to AI on Classified Data
Rob Linton
Thursday 19 November | 10:30am –11:30am | Swan Room
Visit us on the stand
Talk to the Senetas team about post-quantum network encryption, find us near the ground-floor expo entrance.
MilCIS 2026: Cyber Domain and Space Domain Systems Conference and Expo
17–19 November 2026, National Convention Centre Canberra
Visit the MiLCIS website: https://www.milcis.com.au/
