There’s a lame-duck session before Dems take over, but the leaders of the homeland security panels are already teeing up their agendas.

As advances lower the barrier to breaking current encryption, Washington must move with equal urgency on post-quantum defenses.

The nations warn that governments and industry can no longer treat quantum codebreaking as a distant or theoretical possibility.

Under the bill, FERC would consider cyber threats from quantum computers and post-quantum cryptography in its reliability standards for the energy sector. 

Brad Blakestad, director of the National Quantum Coordination Office, also said encryption and measuring progress would pose challenges.

Ellen Boehm, SVP of Strategy and AI Operations at Keyfactor

The orders accelerate the federal government’s transition to post-quantum encryption and will boost the domestic quantum computing industry. 

The shift suggests the tech titan is worried that 2035 is too late to wait to protect their systems, devices and data for the quantum age.

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The administration also released an executive order on cybercrime and fraud.