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Caute_cautim
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Cybersecurity's Future: Facing Post-Quantum Cryptography Peril

Hi All

 

If bad actors get their hands on quantum computers, could the market plunge off a cliff into vulnerabilities worse than Heartbleed?

 

Google published a threat model recently for the coming era of post-quantum cryptography (PQC), putting into perspective potential vulnerabilities that may surface if there is not a migration from “classical cryptographic algorithms to PQC.” The risk of “store-now-decrypt-later” style attacks, where bad actors harvest data they cannot read currently with the intent of breaking the encryption in the future, intensifies with the expected advent of quantum-grade resources at their disposal.

 

It begs the question of how vulnerable organizations will become if they do not make such a transition fast enough?  Will it be open season on their data without quantum encryption? Does the post-quantum future mean quantum encryption will be mandatory for even the most basic forms of cyber resilience?

 

https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/cybersecurity-s-future-facing-post-quantum-cryptogr...

 

Regards

 

Caute

 

 

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Kyaw_Myo_Oo
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I appreciate your sharing this information @Caute_cautim.

 

 

Kyaw Myo Oo
Manager , CB BANK PCL
CCIE #58769 | PCNSE | CCSE | CISSP | PMP