Bahrain

Engaged

Bahrain's posture is adoption-led. The National Cyber Security Center entered a strategic partnership with SandboxAQ to transition the national government toward a quantum-safe economy, with post-quantum cybersecurity to be deployed across roughly sixty ministry environments in anticipation of cryptographically relevant quantum computers and harvest-now decrypt-later risk.

Governance credibility

Governance credibility scores for Bahrain, each out of two. Hover or focus a row to highlight its axis.
Criterion	Score	Confidence
Relevance	0.5 / 2	Medium
Coherence	0.5 / 2	Medium
Effectiveness	0.0 / 2	Medium
Efficiency	0.0 / 2	Medium
Governance	1.0 / 2	Medium
Impact	1.0 / 2	Medium

Regulatory basis

No governing instrument identified.

Legal status: No instrument

No binding post-quantum obligation is on record. Engagement to date is limited to awareness or research activity, with no national standard, instrument, or migration timeline adopted.

Standards and algorithms

No standards or algorithms specified.

Hybrid stance

None stated

Migration timeline

No published migration timeline.

Governmental and standards bodies

NCSC National Cyber Security Center, leads the national transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity across government

Key institutional documents

Bahrain partners with SandboxAQ to build quantum-safe economy BNA (Bahrain News Agency) · 2025 · T1

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