Lightning Talk: Developing Quantum-Safe Applications by Paul Schweigert, IBM

Don't miss out! Join us at our next Flagship Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City from November 12 - 15, 2024. Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Lightning Talk: Building Quantum-Safe Applications - Paul Schweigert, IBM Quantum computers pose a unique threat to computer security, as the encryption standards we rely upon are vulnerable to powerful quantum computers. While those computers are still several years away, "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks put all data not proected using quantum-safe security at risk. So what can we do now to protect our applications? In this ⚡ Lightning Talk, Paul will demo how to deploy a quantum-safe application on Kubernetes. He'll provide a brief overview of quantum-safe cryptography and why it's needed, highlight key work being done in the open source community to migrate to quantum-safe cryptography, and conclude with a demo of how to build a quantum-safe cloud-native application. At the conclusion of this session, listeners will have a set of practical steps they can take to help secure their applications in a post-quantum world.