The US government is bracing for cybersecurity threats to everything from trade secrets to state secrets due to a long-anticipated shift toward smarter, faster computers built around quantum mechanics.
A new US law from late 2022, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, calls on federal agencies to develop strategies to prevent unauthorized access to vulnerable information technology in a future where more powerful devices could breach current defenses. Information protected using today’s methods of encryption will be at risk of exposure with the advance of quantum computing.
“We call it the ‘Y2Q’ moment,” said Denis Mandich, a former ...