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The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
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Quantum computing poses a fundamental cybersecurity threat
The biggest threat of them all
While the focus tends to be on the positive impact QC might have, the technology poses a fundamental threat, too: It has the power to break cryptographic keys in an extremely efficient way. This could expose businesses and governments to major cybersecurity threats, and potentially cause complete mayhem. Think about it: All the data that we believe is so safe could be out there on the streets if the supposedly “secure” systems operated by banks and governments are hacked. Hence, the first thing the world needs to focus on, is making encryption methods entirely quantum-proof. Closer to home, efforts towards building the first secure Dutch quantum network are currently underway. Recently, KPN Nederland and QuTech (a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and TNO) signed a cooperative agreement to work together to make quantum internet a reality. Quantum internet is a network of smaller, connected quantum computers that promises “unhackable”, and therefore secure, communication, with privacy being guaranteed. For KPN and QuTech, improving online safety is a top priority, especially since, as they say, the arrival of quantum computers will ultimately render much of today’s encryption unreliable.