Keeping data confidential forever
with Quantum Security.
The cybersecurity world is evolving. So should your cryptography.
Today, we are reaching a paradigm shift: the quantum threat forces us to fundamentally rethink our cryptography. Increased geopolitical and commercial pressure, technological advancements and malicious actors are putting our data confidentiality and sovereignty at risk.
Ensuring everyone can communicate and exchange information safely. For the long run.
In a world where the quantum threat will render current public key cryptography obsolete, and bring long-term uncertainty to the next generation of post-quantum algorithms, we leverage quantum technologies to protect data and communications, keeping society, businesses and people safe now and in the long-term future.
The Quantum threat: why banks must act now
The era of quantum computing is approaching faster than expected, posing a significant threat to the cryptographic systems that protect financial transactions, customer data, and core banking operations. Cybercriminals are already intercepting encrypted information in anticipation of breaking it later with quantum capabilities – a strategy known as “harvest now, decrypt later” (HNDL).
Leading organizations, including NIST, the G7, the BIS, and the World Economic Forum, warn that HNDL attacks are a critical threat to data security, particularly for the financial sector. Sensitive information intercepted today may be decrypted in the future, exposing years of financial records and personal data to exploitation.
Banks must act now to protect their infrastructure with quantum-safe solutions.
Use cases for banking and financial services
Cross-border transactions
Mitigating risks in SWIFT-based interbank payments and cross-border transfers, which are high-value and mission-critical.
Benefits: stronger financial stability, reduced fraud, and the potential for global security standards.
Physical infrastructure
Backbone securing high-capacity links between data centers and disaster recovery sites.
Benefits: improved security, redundancy, low latency, and continuous availability, with potential for broad adoption and minimal implementation time.
Quantum Security as a Service
Use of a service provider’s quantum-safe network.
Benefits: cost efficiency, transferring risk, maintaining high security for data transmission and storage, and simplifying the adoption of quantum security measures.
Protecting against today’s cyber threats and tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks
Quantum computing will break public key cryptography as we know it today.
Internet will never be the same. A quantum computer’s ability to solve complex problems like factorization means that it will also have the power to break keys – the same keys that we rely on to protect our cryptographic systems.
In fact, quantum computers pose a very real threat to data security today. The long-term value of much of today’s data means it is vulnerable to a ‘download now, decrypt later’ attack, where cyber criminals steal data and store it for decryption when quantum computers become available.
Quantum Key Distribution technology ensures unconditional data protection.
As quantum computing matures, organizations must move towards a quantum-safe stance to protect themselves and ensure business continuity. This will likely require the adoption of multiple technologies and approaches.
Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Random Number Generation provide the cornerstone of a long-term quantum-safe strategy.