All news with #quantum computing tag

🔒AWS says long-standing infrastructure and cryptographic choices position it to address emerging AI and quantum threats. The company highlights the Nitro hardware platform — enabled by a 2015 semiconductor acquisition and deployed from 2017 — to provide strong isolation, confidential compute, and a 'zero humans' maintenance model. By favoring symmetric cryptography in KMS (launched 2013) and adding S3 controls like an 'active defense' that returns 'Bucket not found', AWS argues most customer data will not require immediate mass re-encryption while it pursues public-certificate post-quantum authentication by 2028–2029.

🛡️ Quantum computing is moving from theoretical risk to an imminent threat that undermines current cryptographic protections. Advances in algorithms and reduced qubit requirements mean timelines once measured in decades are now years, prompting Gartner in late 2025 to elevate Post-Quantum Cryptography migration to a board-level priority ahead of 2030. Organizations must inventory sensitive assets, prioritize store-now-decrypt-later risks, and begin crypto-agility planning immediately.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to Rigetti's Cepheus-1-108Q, the first 100+ qubit superconducting QPU available on the service. The device uses a modular 3×4 array of twelve 9‑qubit chiplets with tunable and intermodule couplers and introduces CZ gates with an adiabatic implementation to reduce phase and leakage errors. Customers can run deeper circuits for chemical simulation, combinatorial optimization, and machine learning via the Braket SDK or frameworks such as Qiskit, CUDA‑Q, and Pennylane, and researchers can use pulse‑level control. Cepheus-1-108Q is available in the US West (N. California) Region.

🔐 Google announces a company-wide timeline targeting 2029 for migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against future quantum threats. The timeline reflects advances in quantum hardware, error correction, and factoring estimates, and prioritizes PQC for authentication services to guard digital signatures. Google cites ongoing integrations — including Android 17 using ML-DSA, Chrome support, and Cloud offerings — as concrete commitments and urges other teams and organizations to accelerate their own migrations.

🔒China is planning to develop national post-quantum cryptography standards within three years, prioritizing finance and energy for early migration. Chinese experts say they favor structureless lattice algorithms over the algebraic lattice designs adopted elsewhere, arguing better long-term security. Organizations should begin hybrid deployments now to reduce 'harvest now, decrypt later' risk and to maintain flexibility for future compliance.

🔬 The author expresses skepticism and notes they are not qualified to fully evaluate a newly announced claim of improved quantum factoring. If validated, the finding would represent a theoretical improvement in the speed of factoring large integers with a quantum computer. The post emphasizes that the result is currently unverified and that practical consequences for deployed cryptography remain uncertain. Further expert review, replication, and analysis are necessary to determine any real-world impact.

⚛️ Quantum computing paired with AI promises transformative gains in processing speed and machine learning capacity, enabling tasks—such as real-time climate modelling and instant financial simulations—that classical infrastructure struggles to deliver. At the same time, the article warns that quantum-enabled attacks could undermine widely used cryptosystems like RSA, ECC and AES, creating a disruptive Q-Day when encrypted confidentiality is at risk. Governments and enterprises are already staging migrations to post-quantum cryptography and updating governance and observability, but the piece stresses that building trust, ethical AI oversight and resilient frameworks will be essential to preserve digital privacy and integrity.

🔐 Fortinet warns that "harvest-now, decrypt-later" attacks make long-term confidentiality vulnerable now and urges organizations to begin quantum readiness today. The company identifies four essential capabilities for enterprise-grade quantum-safe solutions: minimal performance impact, mandatory crypto-agility, adherence to standards, and deployment flexibility. Fortinet highlights hardware acceleration (NP7 ASICs) to preserve throughput, a required Hybrid Mode to combine classical and PQC key exchanges (e.g., DH + ML-KEM), NIST-approved PQC algorithms for interoperability, and optional QKD for highest-assurance links.

🧠 The convergence of AI and quantum computing is poised to redefine computing, cybersecurity and geopolitical power. Quantum machine learning can accelerate model training and enable real-time simulation by exploiting qubits' parallelism, while quantum key distribution promises communication that is far more resistant to interception. At the same time, this synergy raises risks: quantum-capable adversaries could undermine current cryptography and enable advanced cyberattacks.

🌐 Check Point's 2026 analysis warns that an unprecedented convergence of AI, quantum computing, and an immersive Web 4.0 will reshape digital risk. Autonomous systems and hyper-automation will blur boundaries between cloud, networks, and physical infrastructure, expanding attack surfaces and changing the nature of digital trust. The report calls for updated cryptography, enhanced detection, and cross-industry resilience planning.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to IBEX Q1, a 12-qubit trapped-ion QPU from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) featuring full all-to-all connectivity that eliminates the need for intermediate SWAP gates. The device is available on-demand and via Hybrid Jobs, and customers can reserve dedicated capacity through Braket Direct with hourly pricing and no upfront commitments. IBEX Q1 runs in the Europe (Stockholm) Region with launch access Tuesdays and Wednesdays 09:00–16:00 UTC. Accredited researchers may apply for AWS Cloud Credits for Research to support experiments.

🔒 Google Cloud has been migrating its infrastructure toward post-quantum cryptography for nearly a decade to mitigate Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL) risks. The company has deployed the standards-based ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key exchange across internal traffic and the Google Cloud networking stack, and introduced ML-KEM capabilities in Cloud KMS (preview) for key generation, encapsulation, and decapsulation. It also added native support for ML-DSA and SLH-DSA in Cloud KMS to protect long-lived digital signatures, and is phasing quantum-safe certificate support into Certificate Authority Service to enable future PQC-ready PKI. Administrators will receive tooling to opt in, audit cryptographic assets, and manage transitions to hybrid or pure PQC deployments as standards mature.

🔐 Signal has rolled out a quantum-safe update that adds a third ratchet, branded SPQR, to its secure messaging protocol. Instead of replacing the existing Double Ratchet, Signal runs a parallel KEM-based ratchet and derives encryption keys by mixing outputs from both ratchets with a KDF. Developed with PQShield, AIST, and NYU, the design preserves familiar behaviors while adding post-quantum resilience for forward secrecy and post-compromise protection.

🔐 Cybersecurity must evolve to meet rapid advances in agentic AI, quantum computing, low-code platforms and proliferating IoT endpoints. The author argues organizations should move from static defenses to adaptive, platform-based security that uses automation, continuous monitoring and AI-native protection to match attackers' speed. He urges early planning for post-quantum cryptography and closer collaboration with partners so security enables — rather than hinders — innovation.

🔐 Enterprises acknowledge that quantum computing threatens current public-key cryptography, yet progress toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is uneven and slow. A PwC report finds fewer than 10% prioritize PQC in budgets, only 3% have fully implemented leading measures, 29% are piloting, and 49% have not started. Financial services, government, telecom and cloud are moving faster, while manufacturing, healthcare and industrial sectors lag due to legacy systems, skills shortages, and standards uncertainty. Experts advise inventories, pilot programs, crypto agility, and investment before the 2030 deprecation deadline to avoid 'harvest now, decrypt later' risks.

🔐 The arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers will create a "silent boom" where adversaries can capture encrypted traffic today and decrypt it later, making intrusions neither observed nor observable. This undermines traditional incident response and shifts responsibility to engineering teams, not a vendor checkbox. Organizations must pursue quantum readiness by engaging developers to inventory algorithms and data, assess internet-facing assets for PQC support, and build testing capability for new ciphers within their release cycles.

🔒 A PwC survey finds AI-based security is the top cybersecurity investment priority for the next 12 months, with 36% of business and technology executives ranking it among their top three budget areas. Security leaders prioritized AI threat hunting (48%) and agentic AI to boost cloud and operational efficiencies (35%). While 78% expect cyber budgets to rise, organizations report significant knowledge and skills gaps and low readiness for quantum threats.

🔐Quantum computing is moving from theoretical possibility to an actionable concern for cybersecurity professionals. The article highlights the immediate risk of "harvest now, decrypt later," where adversaries capture encrypted traffic today to decrypt it when quantum-capable machines arrive. It notes that in 2024 NIST finalized initial post-quantum standards, including FIPS 203 for ML-KEM key establishment, and emphasizes the need for organizations to begin migration planning. The piece outlines current quantum-safe tools, migration challenges, and practical steps to improve readiness.

🔐 Quantum computing poses a long-term threat to public-key cryptography, with the potential to break RSA, ECC and Diffie-Hellman once scalable quantum machines exist. Although practical attacks on RSA-2048 are commonly estimated to be eight to fifteen years away, organizations with long-lived confidential data must act now. CISOs should begin a crypto-agility assessment, engage vendors about post-quantum cryptography, and brief leadership and boards to build a migration roadmap.

🔒 This upcoming 60‑minute webinar examines how quantum computing and AI are jointly reshaping cybersecurity and accelerating new attack vectors. Top experts will cut through the hype to explain quantum-safe cryptography, practical defenses against AI-driven phishing and "harvest now, decrypt later" risks, and industry-specific controls for finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. Attendees will leave with a concrete roadmap for assessment, deployment, and ongoing resilience. Seats are limited.