Guest Post by Andrew Gault, CEO, ZeroTier.

The financial services industry depends on cryptography to move money, protect customer and transaction data, verify digital identities, and connect banks with processors, cloud providers, and other third parties. This protection, Quantum computing puts that protection at risk.

A sufficiently capable cryptographically relevant quantum computer, or CRQC, will be able to break much of the public-key cryptography that protects those functions, exposing sensitive data, disrupting trusted communications, and undermining the digital signatures financial systems rely on.

The risk doesn’t begin at Q-Day, [explain what this means]. Adversaries can collect encrypted financial and personal…