Security News > 2022 > May > Protecting data now as the quantum era approaches

It's unclear when quantum computers will easily crack classical crypto - estimates range from three to five years to never - but conventional wisdom is that now's the time to start preparing to ensure data remains encrypted.

QuSecure, which is launching this week after three years in stealth mode, will offer a fully managed service approach with QuProtect, which is designed to not only secure data now against conventional threats but also against future attacks from nation-states and bad actors leveraging quantum systems.

"The current and near-term capability in quantum computing, which would allow for the decryption, is the big threat," Mike Brown, a retired Navy rear admiral and former senior cybersecurity specialist with the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, told The Register.

A bipartisan bill - dubbed the Endless Frontiers Act - calls for spending $100 billion on emerging technologies, including quantum computing and artificial intelligence, to close the innovation gap with China.

Another bill, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, is also finding bipartisan support to ensure that government systems adopt post-quantum cryptography by securing systems with algorithms and encryption that will be difficult for even quantum computers to break.

Quantum computers promise to solve problems that are out of reach of today's supercomputers.

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