China has officially kicked off the quantum space race, becoming the first country to launch a satellite designed for highly secure quantum communications. The 600kg Micius satellite, was launched from the Gobi desert on 16th August on a two year mission to help China
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In May the ID Quantique team attended Quantum Europe; the first conference of this scale in Europe intended to promote Quantum Technologies across the region. Opened by Günther Oettinger (European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society) and Henk Kamp (Minister of Economic Affairs for the
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The European Commission has quietly announced plans to launch a €1-billion (US$1.13 billion) project to boost a raft of quantum technologies — from secure communication networks to ultra-precise gravity sensors and clocks.
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Encryption is used to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation of data. In layman’s terms, it ensures that your data remains secret, that nobody has tampered with it, that it was sent to the right person in the right order and that you
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For the first time ever, the main programme included a session on quantum technologies applied to cyber security applications. The panel session featured industry leaders from across the world; including Jaya Baloo, Simon Brown & Jeff Hunt.
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At the security industry’s main annual event- the RSA conference in San Francisco – one of the keynotes stood out from the crowd; a panel debate on “Beyond Encryption: Why We Can’t Come together on Security & Privacy”. This session addressed some of the issues
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There was a time, not all that long ago, when quantum computers seemed like a pipe-dream. The stuff of science fiction, not science fact. Why are quantum computers such big news? Well, the computational potential of a quantum computer poses a genuine threat to
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In January the 8th Annual Winter School on Quantum Cyber Security took place at the Swiss resort of Les Diablerets. IDQ were joined by 25 delegates from around the world for a week of intensive study, hands-on demonstration - and a bit of fun.
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Gordon E Moore, co-founder of Intel, is arguably more famous for his observations in the late 1960s that computer processing speeds double every 2 years. He initially predicted that this phenomenon would continue for a decade but, over the next 40 years, it has
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Data Breach Wednesday The pre-Christmas retail boom officially kicks off with Black Friday. Originally a US phenomenon, Black Friday is the day after the traditional Thanksgiving Holiday (the last Thursday in November in the US) and has expanded over
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