Post-Quantum Market Sizing and Transition Costs: Fact Vs Fiction

Post-Quantum Market Sizing and Transition Costs: Fact Vs. Fiction.

There is an argument that the transition to post-quantum encryption is going to be costly. It would seem that this assumption is all wrong.

The transition to post-quantum encryption will only be more costly if we Frankenstine it to the current telecom and IT infrastructure we already use—old, slow, and expensive technology past its time, designed 30 years ago.

There is an opportunity however to deploy post-quantum encryption with new hardware and software that writes overtop of everything we currently use, replacing every part and component of every company, every fiber optic connection, with newer less expensive, more secure, technology that is more streamlined and modern. This in terms of total cost of ownership will be less than fitting post-quantum encryption to existing technology redesigned with post-quantum encryption integrated into it.

The transition to post-quantum encryption should involve reducing overall IT costs for organizations. If we are unable to reduce cost as a part of the transition then we are not leveraging modern technology—with modern defined as developed within the last seven years.

The transition to post-quantum encryption is an opportunity to redesign enter IT systems, to redesign the Internet and security over it. It is an opportunity to reshape supply chains, to eliminate waste, to eliminate 1990s technology cost centers with vendor locks ins.

The good news is that big change is coming that will benefit customers. On the other hand if history is a guide, some companies in IT will not be here in 5 years. Those who fail to adapt, who do the minimum to survive, will end up like Kodak ahead of the invention of digital cameras.

Post-quantum encryption paves the way for all of IT to transition to software defined networks that are that new digital camera, with fixed custom hardware for security being the old film cameras. The change ahead is not limited to Software Defined Networks. Advances in technology allow us to streamline nearly every aspect of Internet Security, making it faster, less expensive to operate, and more secure.

Nothing is better for the customer than this kind of radical change. This is how we meet unmet needs that vendor lock-ins and hardened supply chains prevent from being solved. What is more, if the customer gets what they want then we are doing what is right by the most important person in the world—the customer. Nothing else matters.

Ask us how we lower your IT costs, secure your cloud storage data, while meeting today's encryption standards and with the ability to deploy post-quantum encryption across your entire network with one API call.