Gartner: The quantum threat is already behind schedule

For years, quantum computing lived in a strange place in the cybersecurity conversation: important enough to worry about, but sufficiently distant to leave for another day. When we asked CISO what's keeping them up at night, quantum computing rarely made the top five. It still feels distant, theoretical, someone else's problem for 2030-something.

That calculation is starting to look wrong.

Director Analyst within the ITL Application and Data Security research team at Gartner.

Gartner predicts that by 2030, advances in…