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Taking the leap

Recent innovations like the Quantum Xchange CipherInsights tool can provide a strategic advantage.
This solution monitors network activity, discovers cryptographic assets, and assesses risks to bring an
additional layer of defense. Deployed as a virtual appliance, CipherInsights goes beyond traditional
scanning of endpoints only. It analyzes traffic in real-time, pinpointing sanctioned and unsanctioned
encryption. Within 90 minutes, it can evaluate whether networks are compliant with regulations, ensuring
that businesses remain on the right side of the law.

Beyond this, organizations must continually undertake extensive risk assessments if they’re to navigate
the quantum future effectively. This involves segregating data based on protection urgency – classifying
them as "severe," "soon," or "stable." A vital step here is to identify data guarded by quantum-susceptible
solutions.

Here, we refer to solutions like symmetric algorithms with key sizes under 256 bits or traditional
asymmetric cryptography. The strategy of choice merges the principles of diversification, akin to
spreading risk across various investments in a financial portfolio, with crypto-agility. This approach
involves the organization adopting crypto-agility, a flexible system that supports a variety of cryptographic
methods, while simultaneously remaining vigilant to threats by utilizing multiple security techniques.

As the digital landscape evolves, organizations must be proactive. They must look at ways to future-proof
their operations against the known and the unforeseen. Investing in quantum-safe solutions is a building
block for the new world.

About the Author

Eddy Zervigon, CEO of Quantum Xchange. Eddy Zervigon is a seasoned senior
executive with extensive operational, restructuring, and turnaround experience.
Throughout his career in investment banking and corporate advisory, Zervigon
has amassed an impressive track-record working with management teams to
craft, refine, and execute winning business plans; hire highly effective teams;
and lead successful investment monetization via sale or IPO. As a Managing
Director in the Principal Investments Group at Morgan Stanley from 1997-2012,
Zervigon was responsible for technology, media and entertainment and energy
investments throughout Latin America and the U.S. He has been a Special
Advisor at Riverside Management Group, a boutique merchant bank, since 2012
and currently sits on the board of directors at Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and Maxar Technologies (NYSE:
MAXR). Zervigon holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, a
master’s in taxation from Florida International University as well as his undergraduate degree in
accounting.

Eddy can be reached online at our company website Quantum Xchange

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