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CISA urges organizations, governments to prepare for the post-Quantum Era

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group are urging organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography to protect data, systems and assets from quantum computing threats.

The G7 Cyber Security Working Group consists of CISA and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment; France’s National Cybersecurity Agency; Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security; Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency; Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity; the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; and the European Union’s The European Commission and the EU Agency for Cybersecurity. The group said quantum computing poses a real threat to public-key cryptography, and the security of both public and private organizations. While the group said the timeline for the threat is uncertain, the possibility that quantum computers will be able to break widely used public-key cryptography mechanisms and threaten the security of digital infrastructure is possible.