COMPANIES NEED TO ENSURE THEIR CYBER-SECURITY SYSTEMS ARE QUANTUM RESISITANT, WARN EXPERTS
March 2nd, 2020
CYBER-SECURITY specialists are already considering how to make IT systems resist a hack based on a quantum computer, an emerging technology that is starting to demonstrate its potential to calculate problems that elude current digital computers, let alone humans. Keith Nuthall reports
QUANTUM computing is here. Google last October (2019) announced it had developed a 53-qubit (the unit of quantum information) device, nicknamed Sycamore, which it claimed in an article in scientific journal Nature (see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5) took ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.