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TechTalk: Is the cyber insurance world prepared for quantum computing?

By 2025-01-28T08:00:00

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’This is an incredibly complex area and the industry is going to have to spend a lot of time and energy to properly understand the risk factor that quantum may pose to business operations and security – and thus the impact on cyber insurance,’ says global head of cyber

Quantum computing certainly sounds like it belongs in the world of science fiction to the lay person, but as this technology advances from theoretical promise to practical reality, it will create a seismic shift in the cyber security landscape – and require the attention of the cyber insurance market.

The ins and out of the technology are astronomically complex – and mostly unneccessary to lay out here – but, essentially, quantum computing represents an exponential leap forward in compute power.

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