G7 tells businesses to get ready for quantum cybersecurity threats
- G7 urges governments and organizations to begin transitioning to quantum‑resistant encryption
- Warning highlights risk from future quantum computers able to break current standards like AES
- Guidance: inventory cryptographic assets, prioritize critical systems, and adopt phased PQC strategies
The G7, a collection of some of the world’s most powerful economies, is urging organizations to adopt quantum-resistant encryption as soon as possible and minimize the risk of losing sensitive data to technologically advanced threat actors.
Virtually every industry in the world today relies on encryption (the process of converting readable data into scrambled, unreadable data so that only someone with the correct key can decode and access it) to protect sensitive information. Banks, telecommunications providers, defense organizations, and practically everyone else are using some form of encryption - most probably AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).
Decrypting the protected data without the encryption key is considered almost impossible, since the computational effort necessary to...
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