{"id":44197,"date":"2025-09-26T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:43:10","slug":"experts-warn-against-unpreparedness-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44197\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn against unpreparedness for quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">DigiCert<\/a>\u2019s CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicert.com\/blog\/author\/amit-sinha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dr Amit Sinha<\/a>, warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurecio.tech\/impact-of-ai-workload-scalability-and-sovereignty-on-data-centre-operations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quantum computing<\/a> may trigger a breakthrough moment similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ChatGPT<\/a>: \u201cOne day you\u2019ll wake up and realise the disruption has already happened. The big tech firms like Google, Microsoft, and AWS are racing for quantum supremacy, and the pace of advancement is staggering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Dr-Amit-Sinha-150x150.png\" alt=\"Dr Amit Sinha\" class=\"wp-image-38701\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Dr Amit Sinha<\/p>\n<p>Cost of unpreparedness<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving to quantum is a huge change for organisations, and whenever people and organisations are faced with a big change, they usually go through the five stages of grief: denial, bargaining, anger, depression, and acceptance,\u201d shared Sinha during the 2025 World Quantum Readiness Day held on 10 September.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that 24% of organisations today are in denial about the risks of quantum computing, stressing that the shift to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurecio.tech\/bdx-data-centres-unveils-southeast-asias-first-hybrid-quantum-ai-testbed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quantum readiness<\/a> must happen this year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lakshmi-Hanspal-150x150.png\" alt=\"Lakshmi Hanspal\" class=\"wp-image-38702\"   loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Lakshmi Hanspal<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery month you delay the transition, the risks compound. The expense of emergency migration under pressure will far outweigh the investment of starting early,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicert.com\/news\/digicert-welcomes-lakshmi-hanspal-as-new-chief-trust-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lakshmi Hanspal<\/a>, chief trust officer at DigiCert, highlighting the potential cost savings of early action.<\/p>\n<p>Transitioning to quantum readiness<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Deepika-Chauhan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Deepika Chauhan\" class=\"wp-image-32705\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Deepika Chauhan<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digicert.com\/blog\/author\/deepika-chauhan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Deepika Chauhan<\/a>, chief product officer at DigiCert, organisations must focus on three practical steps to begin the transition: \u201cFirst, focus on creating a thorough inventory of your <a href=\"https:\/\/futurecio.tech\/the-future-of-enterprise-is-outcome-based\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cryptographic assets<\/a>, but don\u2019t wait for that process to be complete before getting started. Second, assign clear owners to those assets, as they will be the ones responsible for driving the transition. And third, begin thinking about automation from the outset, as it will be critical to managing the scale and complexity of migration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DigiCert\u2019s CEO, Dr Amit Sinha, warned that quantum computing may trigger a breakthrough moment similar to ChatGPT: \u201cOne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[241,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-44197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}