{"id":150232,"date":"2025-09-17T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150232\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:33:13","slug":"quantum-computing-is-coming-for-your-data-heres-how-to-stay-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150232\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing is coming for your data. Here\u2019s how to stay secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poses an existential risk for enterprises. Sensitive communications, transactions, intellectual property and even national security data protected by current standards could be exposed. Even more concerning, encrypted data intercepted today could be stored and decrypted years from now \u2014 once quantum computers are capable \u2014 through a \u2018harvest now, decrypt later\u2019 strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of post-quantum cryptography<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the cybersecurity community is preparing. Researchers are developing post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms designed to withstand quantum attacks. These new methods rely on mathematical problems that remain hard even for quantum systems.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a first group of PQC algorithms for standardization, including lattice-based schemes like CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This poses an existential risk for enterprises. Sensitive communications, transactions, intellectual property and even national security data protected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-150232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}