Ep 107 - Hardening Federal Communications Infrastructures Against Quantum Threats

While future cybersecurity threats from quantum cryptography and quantum computers are nascent, agencies must start hardening their communications infrastructures from these new attacks. Quantum has numerous applications within the federal government as it is ideally suited to protect sensitive information such as healthcare data, financial information, and classified intelligence.In the “Hardening Federal Infrastructures Against Quantum Threats” interview, Lamont Copeland, Director of Federal Solutions Architecture with Verizon, and Jim Westdorp, Senior Director Strategic Initiatives at Ciena Government Solutions, broke down the different quantum types, threats and zero trust compatibility to federal agencies and beyond.“One of the reasons why networks today are susceptible to quantum attacks is because PKI exchanges keys in such a way that they ...