Feb 12, 2021

Vikram Sharma is the founder and CEO of Canberra Australia based
QuintessenceLabs. His company provides solutions based on quantum
technology to strengthen cryptographic key creation and management
at scale. This is an urgent need in this era of increasingly
sophisticated cyberattacks, and key to protecting data now and into
the future.

Q-Labs uses the world’s fastest random-number generator to
create the strongest possible encryption keys, and integrates them
into advanced key management and encryption capabilities,
protecting banks, governments, and other enterprises around the
globe.

In this OODAcast we ask Vikram for his views on what every CEO,
including non-technical CEOs, need to know about the world of
quantum effects. He provides explanations in very clear ways that
can help inform business strategies. For example, years of theory
and research followed by decades of scientific experiments show
these four unusual concepts at play at the quantum level:

• A particle can be a wave and a wave can be a particle.
• Two particles can behave as if they know what the other is
  doing, even when separated
• Measuring a particle changes it
• At totally random, unpredictable intervals, sometimes small
  bits of matter come into existence and then go away again

Vikram provided an easy to follow description of many other
aspects of this nature of reality at its lowest level, and then led
us to a deeper understanding of how quantum computers leverage
physics of the real world to change the ways humans can
compute.

For more see:

Quantum
Computing Sensemaking: Guide to other OODAloop research on
Quantum Computing and Quantum Security.

The Executive’s Guide To Quantum Computing: What business
decision-makers need to know now about quantum superiority

The Executive’s Guide To Quantum Safe Computing: Take
these steps to make your enterprise quantum proof

Is Quantum Computing Ushering in an Era of No More Secrets?:
Context from OODA’s Matt Devost on the very near future of quantum
computing.

What To Do About Quantum Uncertainty: Guess what, besides
uncertainty at a quantum level there is great uncertainty among
business and policy makers regarding Quantum Computing.

AI, quantum computing and 5G could make criminals more dangerous
than ever, warn police: Quantum is one of many emerging
technologies that law enforcement professionals are tracking

Intel offers AI breakthrough in quantum computing: This article
is more about quantum simulations for AI, but shows the ecosystem
that is developing around the technology

Quantum Computing That Can Crack Modern Encryption More Than a
Decade Away: When we see reports like this we wonder what
qualifies the experts to say this. But in this case the experts are
the National Academies of Sciences.

Could quantum computers render current bitcoin and most blockchain
cryptography powerless?: There is a worry that new algorithms
that could run on quantum computing could attack blockchain and
asymmetric encryption.