Quantum Cyberattacks Are Now A CIO Deadline, Not A Research Topic

Adi Karisik, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Intelligence & Cyber, Amentum. ​​The enterprise cybersecurity playbook is facing an impending mathematical cliff. Chief information officers (CIOs) have operated under a comfortable assumption: While encryption algorithms will eventually need upgrading, the sheer computational shielding around our current data architectures would buy us years, if not decades, to adapt. That assumption is no longer valid. Driven by massive nation-sponsored investments and a series of historic engineering breakthroughs, quantum computing is accelerating at a rate that catches many leaders off guard. The quantum threat to public-key cryptography is transitioning from a theoretical future to an immediate…