As if that weren’t enough, quantum computing is coming fast, posing new security risks. Chris Dimitriadis, chief global strategy officer at ISACA, says, “Given recent quantum advancements, we can expect quantum computing to be present in our day-to-day platforms and processes within the next few years. While this will present great opportunities for innovation in several industries, significant cybersecurity risks emerge. Cryptography is present in all businesses, industries, and sectors, and quantum computing has the potential to break the cryptographic protocols that we use, rendering simple services useless.”
What you can do: Organizations need to start preparing now. Hackers are already engaged in so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks in which they steal encrypted data for decryption via quantum at a later date. Staffers need to be trained on both AI and quantum. Security execs need to develop and implement policies, put guardrails in place, and deploy the appropriate tools to make sure that the organization is prepared for these new types of threats.
No matter how good you are, your organization will be victimized
This is a hard one to swallow, but if we take the “five stages of grief” approach to cybersecurity, it’s better to reach the “acceptance” level than to remain in denial because much of what happens is simply out of your control.
