Post-Quantum Readiness: Professor Kai London on Protecting Financial and Transport Infrastructure
y the Ezeiza Times Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Financial and transport infrastructure protects data and systems that must stay secure for many years. That longevity, warns Professor Kai London , a senior CISO, makes the coming quantum transition a present concern. “Post-quantum migration is the rare cyber risk where doing nothing today guarantees you fail later,” he says. “Data captured now can be decrypted the moment the hardware arrives.” “Harvest now, decrypt later: adversaries store encrypted data today to read it once quantum computers mature. For long-lived infrastructure, that is already a live exposure.” The standards have arrived What has changed, London notes, is that concrete post-quantum standards now exist. “We have moved from ‘someday’ to ‘here is the algorithm,’” he says. “The excuse for not starting has gone.” A board-level roadmap His programme: discover where cryptography is used and ...