This work is led by active practitioners who saw the need for independent, credible intelligence in the post-quantum space — without a commercial agenda.
Moona Ederveen-Schneider
Lead Practitioner · Founder
Moona Ederveen-Schneider has shaped cybersecurity strategy for global banks and financial institutions for over 20 years, before founding her advisory practice dedicated to securing the digital future of our critical systems. As former Executive Director EMEA at FS-ISAC, she brings a cross-sector network spanning global financial services security leadership.
Her research focuses on post-quantum preparedness, AI security, and emerging risk. She holds faculty status at the University of Cambridge PACE and, as founder of Resilia Connect, published the Practical Post-Quantum Transition Framework™ (PQF). She is the author of Practical Quantum Mechanics™ (PQM) and runs the Quantum Security Connection: a quantum preparedness tabletop exercise series for senior practitioners.
A multilingual international speaker who has engaged with security conferences since age 16, Moona makes complex topics accessible and actionable at events including Davos and Gartner. Awarded Most Inspiring Women in Cyber 2026, she is widely recognised as a leading voice in quantum preparedness today.
FS-ISAC EMEA · Cambridge PACE · Davos Speaker · Most Inspiring Women in Cyber 2026
Karel De Kneef
Strategic Adviser · Practitioner
Karel De Kneef is the former Chief Security Officer of SWIFT — the critical financial messaging infrastructure used by more than 11,000 institutions globally. Over nearly three decades at SWIFT he was among the early voices raising the quantum threat as a strategic priority, presenting on post-quantum cryptography and championing crypto agility long before it reached mainstream security agendas.
Since leaving SWIFT, he works as an independent strategic security adviser through Karleef Cyber, helping boards and executive teams understand and act on emerging threats — with a particular focus on the post-quantum transition. He authored the foreword to Practical Quantum Mechanics™ and built the Quantum-Safe Readiness Assessment tool.
Former SWIFT CSO · Independent Strategic Adviser · Post-Quantum Security · Karleef Cyber
Why independence matters in this space
In a market where vendors benefit from selling solutions and timelines are genuinely uncertain, independent practitioner voices serve a different function. They help organisations make sense of the threat without the commercial filter.
🚫 No vendor funding
The research, the assessment tool, PQM, and PQF are funded by the practitioners themselves — not by vendors who sell post-quantum products or services.
✍️ Practitioner-authored
Everything published here is written by people who have led security programmes at scale, not by marketing teams.
🔍 Vetted methodology
The assessment methodology was developed by Karel De Kneef and refined through the Quantum Security Connection tabletop exercise series.
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