Tech Barometer · 2026-08-03 · 9 min
Data harvest is already underway as bad actors await the description power of quantum computers. In this Tech Barometer podcast, technology experts Marco Graziano, Steve McDowell and Don Gentile explain why IT organizations must implement quantum-resistant encryption now, not later. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter. Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast . Transcript: Marco Graziano: All infrastructure today, inter-company communication and on the internet, is possible because you can protect this communication channel with encryption. It's all secure because of encryption. Steve McDowell: I can take a key that would take, you know, however many hundreds of years on a GPU today and solve it in hours on a quantum computer. Marco Graziano: Overnight, communication becomes insecure. Don Gentile: When you think about the bad actors, they have access to harvest now, decrypt later, which means they're collecting your data today and it can be broken with tomorrow's quantum computing decryption capabilities. Jason Lopez: Three technologists, Marco Graziano, Steve McDowell, and Don Gentile are saying pretty much the same thing.
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