Title: 

Navigating Enterprise Risk in the Quantum Age

Synopsis: 

Quantum computing is transforming cryptographic risk from a distant concern into a present‑day strategic issue. While large‑scale quantum attacks may still be years away, sensitive data encrypted today can already be harvested and stored for future decryption, threatening long‑term confidentiality and trust. This session reframes quantum risk as an enterprise‑wide governance challenge rather than a purely technical problem, explaining why quantum threats strike at the foundations of digital trust—public key infrastructure, identities, certificates, firmware, and secure update mechanisms—upon which modern digital economies rely.

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The talk places enterprise quantum readiness within a broader regulatory and geopolitical landscape, highlighting differing national approaches and their implications for compliance, vendor ecosystems, and interoperability. As post‑quantum algorithms emerge but supporting infrastructure and hardware lag behind, organizations must navigate trade‑offs between early adoption risks and delayed exposure. The session concludes with a pragmatic, phased transition framework that helps leaders prioritize visibility, manage hybrid complexity, and plan a sustainable path toward quantum‑resilient trust—emphasizing that the most critical decisions must be made well before quantum disruption becomes visible.