Why Waiting for Q Day Fails: Quantum, AI and Getting Security Done Now | An On Location Conversation at ISC2 Security Congress with Jaya Baloo, COO & CISO

Everyone wants a date. If quantum computing is far enough away, the quantum work can wait, along with the backlog and the outdated asset inventory. Jaya Baloo says that comfort is the problem. Sean Martin talks with Jaya Baloo, COO & CISO at AISLE, after her afternoon keynote at ISC2 Security Congress in Denver. Baloo has worked on quantum for years, including the EU Quantum Flagship, which organizes the field into four pillars: computing, communication, simulation, and sensing and metrology. The conversation turns to her keynote message: stop fixating on numbers and artificial boundaries, and do not say you have until 2029. Baloo says AI is an accelerant to a potential break of RSA, which is why she urges people to keep marching forward, potentially at a faster clip. Sean raises the usual excuses, a backlog of old systems and a configuration management database that is not current. Baloo's reply is that ignoring them will not bring the database up to date. They also cover why teams put the urgent ahead of the important, and whether not understanding AI or quantum excuses inaction. Baloo says it does not, and offers starting points: security protections on open-weight models, knowing what a frontier large language model is authorized to do, hunting shadow AI usage, an AI asset register, and visibility into third-party suppliers already using AI. She also says waiting for governments will be too little, too late, and closes on observability for AI systems. For security leaders, the takeaway is a place to start now rather than a year to wait for. Read the full story on ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/blog?p=waiting-for-q-day-is-the-wrong-plan-and-ai-removes-the-date Resources ISO/IEC 42001:2023 - AI management systems | https://www.iso.org/standard/42001 Quantum Flagship (EU) | https://qt.eu/