Quantum-Safe and Quantum-Unsafe Secrets: Discovery with Ground Labs

About this course

A practical follow-on to PrivacyBuilt's [Sensitive Data Discovery with Ground Labs Enterprise Recon](/courses/sensitive-data-discovery-ground-labs-enterprise-recon). Designed for security, privacy, infrastructure, application, cloud and governance teams. No quantum physics or programming background is required; familiarity with files, access controls and basic encryption is helpful.

## Why this matters for global organisations

Confidential records can outlive the cryptography protecting them. Keys and credentials also spread through exports, shared folders, deployment files and backups. Organisations need evidence of what exists, who can access it, which services depend on it and how changes will be tested without interrupting operations.

## What you will learn

The course separates two questions: can the cryptography resist the relevant threat, and is the asset handled securely? A post-quantum private key still needs protection. A public certificate is not automatically a leaked secret. A discovery match needs validation, ownership and context before it supports a risk decision.

Eight teaching modules contain sixteen written lessons, four numbered guided labs, a capstone, worked examples and thirty-two module questions. A twenty-question final assessment follows. Allow approximately five hours: 240 minutes for lessons and exercises, 32 minutes for module quizzes and 28 minutes for the final assessment. Installation and extended organisational pilots take additional time.

## Ground Labs at the core

Ground Labs Enterprise Recon is the featured discovery platform. The course uses its documented Quantum-Unsafe Secrets and Quantum-Safe Secrets data types, then connects findings with application, certificate, key-management and supplier evidence. Product coverage must be tested against the installed version, edition, encoding and target. Discovery alone cannot certify an entire service as quantum safe.

Explore [Enterprise Recon](https://groundlabs.com/enterprise-recon) or [request a Ground Labs demonstration](https://go.groundlabs.com/request-demo). Ask for a demonstration using your agreed asset formats and success criteria. This is independent PrivacyBuilt training featuring Ground Labs; it does not imply vendor endorsement, a commercial partnership or official certification.

## Two learning paths

The hands-on path requires separately arranged licensed or vendor-approved Enterprise Recon access, an authorised isolated sandbox and administrator support. Use disposable training keys that are never trusted by a real service. No licence, hosted scanner, executable lab or software installation is included.

The worksheet path is complete within the lessons: use the explicitly fictional inventory, scan observations, validation calculations and capstone. It teaches investigation and decision-making; it does not demonstrate live software proficiency. Copyable inventory, scan-validation, remediation and migration templates are embedded in the lessons.

## Assessment and review

PrivacyBuilt's course player uses an eighty-percent quiz pass requirement. The final assessment has twenty scenario questions. Practical exercises are self-reviewed using the supplied criteria and are not automatically graded. Any certificate is a PrivacyBuilt completion certificate, not a professional accreditation, Ground Labs certification or proof of cryptographic compliance.

Technical sources and product documentation reviewed 20 October 2026. Next editorial review: 20 January 2027, or sooner after a relevant standard, erratum or product change. Current Ground Labs documentation identifies Enterprise Recon 2.16.1. Examples are educational and require organisation-specific security and change approval before production use.