Utimaco says quantum crypto dependency knowledge is step one

Organizations with data requiring confidentiality for a decade or more are already at risk from “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, even before powerful quantum computers arrive. Utimaco, a provider of cybersecurity and compliance solutions specializing in hardware security modules, emphasizes that the critical step isn’t predicting when quantum computing will break encryption, but calculating how long it would take to replace it, the company says. “Your clock started before the quantum computer,” the company asserts, framing quantum readiness as the sum of data lifetime and cryptography replacement time, a calculation many organizations haven’t begun.…