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Rethinking Risk Management and Cybersecurity Strategy in a Post Quantum Era With Dr. Christina Liang-Boguszewicz


Dr. Christina Liang-Boguszewicz, Group Managing Director, BI Consulting Group

Published on October 18, 2021

“Rated as one of the global top leading Cyber Enterprise Solutions and used by world’s leading innovative companies and government agencies – The Quantum Security Safe solutions offered by BI Consulting Group comprises of the latest fourth-generation QKD and world’s leading experts from the field of cyber security, digital transformation, quantum physics with over 30 years experience.” – The Ritz Herald.

Digital transformation has become a buy word now interwoven into people’s minds. Digital Transformation helps to improve current processes, improve customer experience, reduce operating costs and improve performance. A key business driver is how to translate this digital journey into a customer-centric success story. Research & market analysis predicts that the global digital transformation market is expected to grow from US$ 445.4 billion in 2017 to US$ 2,279.4 billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 24.3% between 2018 and 2025.

Digital Transformation as the term implies, leveraging digital technologies to transform the key business processes and even legacy services. The technologies that are boosting this transformation involve artificial intelligence, cloud computing, quantum technology, 3.0 DLT, and the Internet of Things.

Digital Transformation opportunities include both Operational Improvement and Growth Driver initiatives, where the latter is driven largely by improved Customer Experience.  Transformation is driven by 6 Technology Trends:

  • Social Media
  • Mobility
  • Internet of Things
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data
  • Cloud

As digital transformation accelerates, Cyber Security has become an imperative. With the exponential growth of cyber threats, cyber security is now a business mission-critical imperative, traversing the entire organizational landscape. Management must engage in an ongoing dialogue to ensure their Cybersecurity Strategy continually evolves and should be a constant item on the agendas of CEOs and boards. Most large companies have significantly strengthened their Cybersecurity capabilities. Formal processes have been implemented to identify and prioritize Cybersecurity risks and hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested to mitigate these risks. Despite this, Cybersecurity is a bigger issue now than ever.

Over the past decade, we have seen growing threats in cybercrimes and the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified these threats as the most global workforce has been forced to work from home. Ransomware has grown by 35x in comparison to 2020 and cybercrime is projected to hit US$10.5 trillion annually by 2025.

  • Daily cyber threats has grew from 60,000,000 to 100,000,000
  • Targeted Industries: Financial, Education, Government, Healthcare, ISP/MSP
  • Top Global Impact: Botnet, Phishing, Malwares

The financial services industry takes in the highest cost from cybercrime at an average of $18.3 million per company surveyed. The healthcare industry incurs the highest average data breach costs at $7.13 million.

  • The average time to identify a breach in 2020 was 207 days
  • And the average lifecycle of a breach was 280 days from identification to containment

By 2023, the total number of DDoS attacks worldwide is estimated at 15.4 million.

Given the exponential growth of cyber-attacks, risk management and cyber security solutions using conventional data encryption technologies which reply on mathematical complexity would not be secured to protect your data.

With the growth of the cyberthreat landscape, conventional cybersecurity approaches are inadequate to protect your data sovereignty.

As Governments, enterprises, educational systems, social and many others have moved towards AI and with Quantum Computers expected to be commercialized sooner than expected, it is prudent for organizations to relook at their digital and cyber security strategy.

Leverage Science and Technology for Ultimate Security Protection

Understanding Quantum technologies

Quantum technology is an emerging field of physics and engineering, which relies on using the principle of quantum physics. Interest in quantum technologies and computing spurred all the way back to the 1960s with the first working 3 qubit NMR computer in 1998.

Quantum technologies exploit physical phenomena at the atomic and sub-atomic scale. Fundamental to quantum mechanics is that at this atomic scale, the world is ‘probabilistic’ as opposed to ‘deterministic’. This probabilistic paradigm led the way to a better understanding of some key properties of quantum particles that underlie quantum technologies, most notably ‘superposition’ and ‘entanglement’. The improved understanding of these fundamental quantum principles leads to the development of next-generation quantum technologies: quantum sensing, quantum communication, and quantum computing.

Quantum sensing

Quantum sensors are based on ultra-cold atoms or photons, carefully manipulated using superposition or entanglement in specific ‘quantum states’. By exploiting the fact that quantum states are extremely sensitive to disturbances, quantum sensors are able to measure tiny differences in all kinds of different properties like temperature, acceleration, gravity, or time.

Quantum sensing is a transformative potential for risk mitigation and detection. Not only does it enable much more accurate and sensitive measurements, but it also opens up possibilities to measure things we have never been able to cope with before.

Quantum communication

The potential of quantum communication relies on its promise to enable ‘ultra-secure’ data communication, potentially even completely future proof. ‘Quantum Key Distribution’ (QKD) or Quantum cryptography is a technology that uses quantum particles for the exchange of cryptographic keys. While ‘Quantum Random Number Generator’ (QRNG) is a technology that creates unpredictable quantum random numbers without patterns by utilizing the characteristics of protons. This technology greatly improves security by using the most complete random number to generate cryptographic keys, allowing more secure encryption of customer information.

Currently, the exchange of encrypted data relies on streams of electrical signals representing ‘1s’ and 0s’ running through optical fiber cables. In quantum communication, the transmitted information is encoded in a quantum particle in a superposition of ‘1’ and ‘0’, or known as ‘qubit’. Because of the sensitivity of quantum states to external disturbances, whenever a hacker tries to capture what information is being transmitted, the qubit ‘collapses’ to either a ‘1’ or a ‘0’ – thereby destroying the quantum information and leaving a suspicious trail.

Embrace Quantum security safe cybersecurity and risk management ecosystem

Embracing the use of quantum technologies for cybersecurity and risk management ecosystem, could set organizations ahead of their competitors and also, providing a risk and security safe environment.

“Our ultimate security safe solutions use quantum-safe technology, quantum random number generator and quantum sensing helps to integrate and safeguard networks, data at rest and in transit, public key infrastructure (PKI) and its environment. The technology is immutable and it is embedded with enhanced trusted security components such as unclonable functions, real-time, and tamper detection. Most importantly, it is resilient to new attack algorithms, upcoming quantum computers and it easily interfaces with link encryptors. It also improved operating efficiency by 10x and reduced Capex and Opex costs by 30%, above all, our solutions are easily deployed without having assembly a quantum team.

Our Quantum products have been around for more than 20 years and we have recently launched the fourth generation QKD system. Our solutions have been well received by innovators from the fortune 500 clients, financial, insurance, telecommunications, chips makers, supply chain, the energy just to name some. One of the world’s leading phone makers is using our quantum chip for their next-generation mobile phone.” – Dr. Christina LB, Group Managing Director of BI Consulting Group.

The Quantum race is on!

“Some of the world’s leading companies like Tesla, are embracing the use of quantum technologies for innovative transformation, such as new product development, resolve previously unsolved problems and increase efficiency, processes, productivity, revenue and profitability of an organization. Being a proud Singaporean, and Singapore being a regional digital and financial hub, we have to stay innovative and ahead of the technology curve. We need to leverage both science and technology to stay competitive, to secure and protect our interests.

Technology is moving at a lightning speed, I urge leaders, cyber practitioners, and policymakers not to be complacent and underestimate cyber threats. Securing your data, network, and infrastructure with quantum technology is the way to move forward against cybercrimes and to also lead us into the quantum era. Quantum technologies are here to stay and will bring new profound capabilities to academia, military, and commercial world.”

Dr. Christina Liang-Boguszewicz, Group Managing Director, BI Consulting Group

Dr. Christina Liang-Boguszewicz, Group Managing Director, BI Consulting Group

About Dr. Christina Liang-Boguszewicz

Christina is a seasoned strategy and transformation executive with over 15 years of experience in management consulting and corporate monetization strategy development. As a trusted adviser, she works with senior business leaders to turn complex problems, distressed businesses into clear winning strategies.

As the group managing director in BI Consulting, she is the driving force in the firm’s strategic initiatives and revenue generation. She oversees clients acquisition, project development, government relations, public relations, press & media, marketing, operations, finance and has expanded the firm’s presence across Asia, Europe, The Middle East, and South Africa within 15 months.

Christina receives education from The Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Wesleyan University. She holds a Doctorate of Business Administration in Management, is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner, Charter Member of ICOR, and Association of British Business Psychology. Member of Stanford Philosophy, International Society for Performance Management, Social Psychology Network, and NAHA. Christina is often featured in major technology, business, and social publications

Profile

  • Executed over 200 advisory and consulting projects
  • Successfully raised a combination of >USD 1 billion capital for clients
  • Chief Corporate Affairs Officer / Group Chair (CyPSYCH) and a Policy Expert, at the Global Foundation of Cyber Security Studies & Research Think Tank Washington DC (GFCYber) where she provides strategic counsel to the group CEO and oversees marketing, public relations, public affairs, government relations, and corporate donors.
  • An advocate in Wellbeing and Cyberspace Mental Wellbeing, She founded dR CLB – a knowledge hub dedicating to improving the mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing of people through education, empowerment, and community-based support.
  • Author of “Fostering The Wisdom of Resilience” and co-written two white papers.
  • Known for her UAMIE techniques and also the creator of “Regenerative Sustainability for Mental & Wellbeing” a circularity model which is known as the next wave of sustainable wellbeing.

About BI Consulting Group

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