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AI Tops Cybersecurity Investment Priorities — PwC Report

🔒 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-Safe Cybersecurity: Current Capabilities and Roadmap

🔐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.

Security Implications of Quantum Computing for CISOs

🔐 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.

Preparing Organizations for the AI and Quantum Threat

🔒 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.

Amazon Braket local device emulator for verbatim circuits

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers a local device emulator to test verbatim circuits with device-specific constraints and realistic noise models before running on quantum hardware. The emulator validates qubit connectivity, native gate sets, and topology while applying depolarizing channels to one- and two-qubit gates using device calibration data and local density-matrix simulation. It supports both real-time and historical calibration snapshots and can be instantiated from AWS quantum devices or custom device properties via the Amazon Braket SDK, integrating into existing workflows so developers can catch compatibility and performance issues early without incurring hardware costs.