She expects Microsoft and AWS to set similar migration schedules, and CSOs will need to move their PQC transition plans up the priority list.
“It’s not a side project anymore, with an extended time frame that they can just get to whenever they have extra time to work on it,” she says. “They really can’t afford to watch and wait anymore.”
According to Google, some data is already being collected by attackers. In a post last month, Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, wrote, “Malicious actors are not waiting until a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is ready. They are likely already carrying out ‘store now, decrypt later’ attacks and collecting encrypted data, just waiting for the day when a quantum computer can unlock it.”
