"Light Might Be the Answer to Our Data Security Issues, Quantum Researcher Says"
In a world driven by data, protecting digitized lives and resources is crucial, especially as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technologies mature. Therefore, University of Calgary alum Jordan Smith and his team in the Faculty of Science are developing an AI-resistant and quantum-secure cybersecurity solution through their company, Quantized Technologies Inc. (QTI), to prevent the decryption of customer data. QTI's technology encrypts data with quantum photons (light particles) that rely on physics rather than mathematics to protect against data threats. This hardware and software combination distributes encryption keys to legitimate users so that even the system's other parts cannot read the key (zeroes and ones), preventing hackers from gaining access to the key and decrypting data. In addition, QTI's hardware is more cost-effective than existing Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) approaches to encryption because multiple users can be connected to a single photon detection device, as opposed to each user requiring their own. This article continues to discuss QTI's work on an AI-resistant and quantum-secure cybersecurity solution.