{"id":155742,"date":"2023-01-18T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ibm-quantum-computing-poses-an-existential-threat-to-data-encryption"},"modified":"2023-01-18T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:22:19","slug":"ibm-quantum-computing-poses-an-existential-threat-to-data-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ibm-quantum-computing-poses-an-existential-threat-to-data-encryption","title":{"rendered":"IBM: Quantum computing poses an \u2018existential threat\u2019 to data encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-quantum-computing-poses-an-existential-threat-to-data-encryption2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit <a href=\"https:\/\/avolio.swapcard.com\/intelligentsecuritysummit2022\/registrations\/Start?utm_source=vb&utm_medium=boiler&utm_content=ondemand&utm_campaign=IS22_BoilerPlates\">here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For years, encryption has played a core role in securing enterprise data. However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/quantum-computing-faces-the-ghosts-of-its-past-present-and-future\/\">quantum computers<\/a> become more advanced, traditional encryption solutions and public-key cryptography (PKC) standards, which enterprise and consumer vendors rely on to secure their products, are at serious risk of decryption.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/thought-leadership\/institute-business-value\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IBM Institute for Business Value<\/a> issued a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/thought-leadership\/institute-business-value\/en-us\/report\/quantum-safe-encryption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> titled Security in the Quantum Era, examining the reality of <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/security\/quantum-risk-cryptography\/\">quantum risk<\/a> and the need for enterprise adoption of quantum-safe capabilities to safeguard the integrity of critical applications and infrastructure as the risk of decryption increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. For years, encryption has played a core role in securing enterprise data. However, as quantum computers become more advanced, traditional encryption solutions and public-key cryptography (PKC) standards, which enterprise and consumer vendors rely on to secure their products, are at serious risk of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1625,12,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-encryption","category-existential-risks","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}