Nobody knows when ‘Q-day’ will arrive, but we know it’s coming and likely sooner than most organizations think.  Quantum computers with capabilities to decrypt today’s most popular cryptographic algorithms  could be with us as early as 2030 and this has seen a flurry of activity as nations seek to protect their encrypted data in a post-quantum world. 

Quantum computers will be able to crack the cryptographic algorithms used to encrypt data today in minutes and it’s widely suspected that organised criminal gangs and nation state attackers have already begun harvesting data in the belief they’ll be able to decrypt it later (HNDL). HNDL will allow threat actors to store valuable evergreen data such…