F5 Study: 56.7% of UAE Websites Use Post-Quantum Encryption
F5 Labs finds 56.7% of UAE websites have adopted post-quantum encryption, above the 54% global average, though adoption varies widely by sector.
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giftdetect· the right gift in minutesMore than half of websites in the United Arab Emirates now use post-quantum encryption, according to a study by F5 Labs. The 2026 report puts UAE adoption at 56.7%, compared with a global average of 54%.
The report is based on a scan of the world's top one million websites, plus a detailed country and sector analysis of the top 100,000 domains. Its aim is to gauge readiness for cryptography that can withstand future threats from quantum computing.
Sharp gaps between sectors
Within the UAE, adoption is uneven. Consumer services lead at 58.8%, followed by technology at 56.1% and consumer goods at 49.8%. Critical sectors trail: 34.5% in oil and gas, 35.2% in telecoms, 35.4% in government and 39.4% in utilities.
The UAE also ranks ahead of Denmark (48.79%), the Netherlands (46.44%) and Germany (35.78%). It sits behind Ukraine (65.12%), Australia (63.11%), the United States (62.05%) and the United Kingdom (60.95%).
A few platforms drive the numbers
F5 says much of the increase stems from edge computing and content delivery platforms, notably Cloudflare, which enabled hybrid post-quantum key exchange by default. Excluding Cloudflare-hosted domains, the global figure falls from 54% to 22%. The report also found that 10.51% of responding sites do not support TLS 1.3.
David Warburton, director of F5 Labs and the report's author, cautioned that protecting external connections does not necessarily secure internal systems, APIs and databases.
The percentages cover only the websites included in the scan. They are not a comprehensive measure of readiness for every organization or information system in the country.
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