Markets
Understanding the Problem
We understand the urgency. Quantum computing will have the power to break traditional cryptographic methods, and it is important to be ready for the impact. In every single industry, the cryptography that keeps data, devices, connections, and components secure, needs to be modernized in order to align with the new global standards. This modernization needs to begin today, in every industry that uses cryptography.
Below are just a few of the priority markets that urgently need to focus on migration.
Semiconductors & Manufacturing
Semiconductors are a fundamental component of modern electronics and are essential to the production of hardware in complex global supply chains. Ensuring the security and integrity of data and devices in these supply chains is vital, and PQC is essential when it comes to protecting the sensitive information required for semiconductor design, distribution, and manufacturing.
Military and Aerospace
PQC solutions can help upgrade hardware (such as vehicles, sensors and hardware security modules) and software (such as public key infrastructure, TLS and virtual private networks) to become crypto-agile and quantum-resistant. Classified data held by defence and aerospace organizations can have a long shelf-life, and even now is at risk of interception and future decryption.
Identity & Paymentech
With the development of online financial transactions, integrity and security are essential to the way the world does business. In the next few years, the technology that keeps organizations and financial data safe online will be under threat due to classical asymmetric encryption techniques. With financial institutions particularly at risk, modernization to PQC is essential.
Systems Integrators
Many industries and manufactured products require components and assets integrated from the world’s technology supply chain. In addition to having the confidence of integrating components with a secure platform, the design, process of manufacture, and deployment of integrated products require protecting from malicious attackers, particularly in the post-quantum era.
Network & Telecommunications
In an increasingly connected world, it’s important to be able to continue to protect the world’s communications and data networks from malicious interception, or attack from the latest threats. Migrating to PQC requires updating existing network infrastructure, protocols, software and authentication methods, identity management mechanisms, and user provisioning.
Automotive
With advances in technology, the production of vehicles now involves processes and components that rely on data security and integrity of communications. In addition, vehicles use components that may have a long shelf-life, meaning that in the decades to come, today’s technology will still be on the road. Migration to PQC must become a priority for the automotive industry.
Industrial IoT
Automated systems, monitoring equipment, environmental controls, and interconnected devices often rely on certain security protocols to communicate, and as such are perpetually at risk of interception by malicious attackers. With the advent of quantum-computing, it is possible that many of these IoT systems could become entry points to an organization’s network of operation.
Enterprise Platforms
Almost every organisation runs efficiently because of tools and applications that serve as the foundation for their business operation. It’s increasingly important to recognise whether these solutions are quantum-resilient. Enterprise platforms need to be protected so that data, business operations, intellectual property and sensitive information are not compromised.