Post-Quantum Security: Threads and Strategic Actions
Beside showing a lot of benefits, quantum computing imposes a significant threat: it has the potential to break today’s security infrastructure midterm. The talk sketches the origin of this thread, and the reactions of the cryptography community. To counter this threat, organizations must take measures that are briefly touched on.
Speakers
Frank, the WSO2 Technology fellow, has been a full professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany since 2004. He is also the founder and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems. His research interests include middleware, cloud computing, quantum computing, and pattern languages. Before joining the university, he worked at IBM, serving in software development roles. He was also the main co-inventor and chief software architect of IBM's business process management and workflow products. He has received recognition for his technical contributions from leading organizations and is an elected member of the Academy of Europe as well as the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He holds appointments as a member of the Expert Council for Quantum Computing of the German Government and as a Kurt Gödel visiting professor for Quantum Computing at TU Wien.