Protecting your most important business assets takes a proactive security approach. Modern encryption is currently sufficient because it would take classical computers hundreds of years to reverse engineer mathematical factorization to crack codes. Quantum computers don’t have these limitations, as they could attain exponential parallel computing capabilities using quantum mechanics. This makes them faster at solving certain complex computations while at the same time posing a threat to modern encryption.
With quantum computing power, adversaries could break the strongest asymmetric encryption we currently use to secure our data. While we don’t know exactly when, we know it will happen and put unprepared organizations at risk. This poses a great challenge to organizations' overall cybersecurity posture. In a method called “harvest now, decrypt later,” cybercriminals are stealing and storing encrypted data, intending to decrypt it once quantum computing capabilities make that possible. Assess the risk and plan for it now to prepare.
Drawing on crypto expertise, post-quantum cryptography services at Unisys can help you modernize before the threat is imminent and talent with crypto expertise is scarce. Acting now will give you a first mover business advantage.
