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Guidelines to help S’pore businesses shield themselves from quantum threats from 2025: CSA
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Experts say quantum computers are advancing enough to eventually break current encryption standards.
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SINGAPORE – Organisations will start getting guidelines from the national Cyber Security Agency (CSA) from 2025 to prepare for the day when hackers start using quantum computers to decrypt stolen and current data.
Quantum computers are rapidly progressing to the point of having enough computational power to break encryption standards underlying most of the world’s data and infrastructure today, say experts.