Quantum computing: A threat to asymmetric encryption.

Show Notes

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the meaning of quantum computing through a cybersecurity perspective with CyberWire Hash Table guests Dr. Georgiana Shea, Chief Technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Jonathan France, the Chief Information Security Officer at ISC2. Research contributors include Bob Turner, Fortinet’s Field CISO – Education, Don Welch, New York University CIO, Rick Doten, CISO at Healthcare Enterprises and Centene, and Zan Vautrinot, Major General - retired.

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Shea, Dr.G., Fixler, A., 2022. Protecting and Securing Data from the Quantum Threat [Technical Note]. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. URL https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fdd-ccti-protecting-and-securing-data-from-the-quantum-threat.pdf

HOST(S):

Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

Schedule: Mondays (in season)

Credits: Edited by John Petrik and executive produced by Peter Kilpe. Our theme song is by Blue Dot Sessions, remixed by the insanely talented Elliott Peltzman, who also does the show's mixing, sound, and original score

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