{"id":66016,"date":"2025-08-07T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66016\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:07:07","slug":"hardware-security-seen-as-key-to-combating-quantum-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66016\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Security Seen as Key to Combating Quantum Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal agencies are boosting <a href=\"https:\/\/fedtechmagazine.com\/article\/2025\/08\/hardware-security-protecting-data-quantum-era-perfcon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hardware security<\/a> as they begin to adopt post-quantum cryptography, a stronger encryption standard designed to withstand quantum computing, which could crack traditional encryption, according to an opinion piece published on FedTech on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>What Hardware Security Does<\/p>\n<p>Hardware security, or hardsec, protects the physical components of devices and helps guard sensitive data and cryptographic keys by blocking unauthorized access or tampering. Unlike software tools, hardsec provides security at the core of devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/articles\/executive-spotlight-interview-with-tommy-gardner-cto-of-hp-federal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tommy Gardner<\/a>, chief technology officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivebiz.com\/?s=HP+Federal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HP Federal<\/a>, said people immediately focus on software when it comes to cybersecurity due to several vulnerabilities. \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand the same principles and the same attack vectors reside in hardware,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need to build trust in your system, and in your network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hardsec can be implemented using trusted platform modules and hardware security modules.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner stressed that hardware security should come first. \u201cThat\u2019s the first decision in the security chain: Are you evaluating the hardware?\u201d he said. \u201cIf it\u2019s not secure, the rest of the features don\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hardsec, however, is challenging for agencies responsible for protecting sensitive information and critical government systems. \u201cThe problem is that procurement should be based on true best value, but it is often relegated to the lowest cost technically acceptable,\u201d Gardner stressed. \u201cIn certain parts of government, you just can\u2019t live with second rate. You have to demand the best on the market, especially in the intelligence community and Department of Defense, the Department of State for critical infrastructure, and Homeland Security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal agencies are boosting hardware security as they begin to adopt post-quantum cryptography, a stronger encryption standard designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-66016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}