At the New Year's reception of our partner M-net Telekommunikations GmbH, where the new hyperspeed network access with 5 Gbit/s for private customers was presented, the focus was on another forward-looking topic: quantum security.
In his presentation “New speeds - new challenges”, our colleague Thomas Lebeth, VP Advanced Technologies & Innovation, demonstrated the threats that the rapid development of quantum computers already poses to information security and data sovereignty.
In front of around 200 attendees - including customers, partners and political representatives - he particularly highlighted the threat to data with a long information lifecycle. Traditional encryption methods will soon no longer offer any protection here: secret information that is intercepted and stored today can be decrypted in the future using quantum computers - a scenario known as the “Store Now, Decrypt Later” (SNDL) principle.
Its central message: companies and authorities must act now. Existing IT systems should be checked for vulnerable cryptographic processes at an early stage, the need for action identified and measures introduced to secure data sovereignty in the long term. Step by step, a secure future can be guaranteed.
You can find out more about quantum security here.
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