Cybersecurity
Quantum Computing to Spark ‘Cybersecurity Armageddon,’ IBM Says
- IBM’s general manager of EMEA sees quantum era by 2030
- Quantum computers to make existing encryption systems obsolete
A section of a quantum computer at the Leibniz Computing Center in Germany.
Photographer: Sven Hoppe/picture alliance/Getty Images
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Governments and businesses are not prepared for the havoc quantum computers will sow in cybersecurity by the end of the decade, according to an International Business Machines Corp. executive.
“Is quantum going to really create a cybersecurity Armageddon?” Ana Paula Assis, IBM’s general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa, said on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. “It’s going to.”