The Quantum Briefing

Nation-state adversaries are intercepting and storing your encrypted network traffic right now. They can't read it yet. They're waiting for quantum computers — which current estimates put at 2030 to 2035 — to break the encryption retroactively. This attack is called Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL), and it makes the quantum computing threat an active security problem today, not a future o...

Before Kyon could route any customer's work to quantum hardware, we had to answer a harder question: which hardware actually performs? We ran a systematic head-to-head bake-off across three major cloud quantum providers — IBM Brisbane (127-qubit Eagle), IonQ Forte Enterprise (trapped-ion via AWS Braket), and Rigetti Cepheus-1 (108-qubit via AWS Braket) — using Bell state fidelity as the standa...

In 2026, executive orders began mandating quantum-ready infrastructure across federal agencies and critical industries - with a 2028 target. In this episode, we break down what those mandates actually require, which industries are affected first, and what quantum-ready realistically looks like for a business that isn't a research lab. Topics covered: - What the 2028 quantum mandates require an...