Publication: Dark Reading

Published: December 5, 2025 | 5 Min Read

Contributor: Rut Lineswala, Founder & CTO, BQP

As quantum methods quietly move beyond lab experiments and into production workflows, security, compliance, and engineering teams are being forced to adapt. This is not a pitch for new hardware, but an examination of how security operations must evolve as quantum-inspired software becomes embedded in mission-critical environments.

Most enterprises are not running quantum computers. Yet quantum-inspired algorithms are already deployed across defense, aerospace, and advanced engineering programs, delivering significant performance gains today while being architected for future quantum hardware. These tools integrate seamlessly with existing workflows such as MATLAB, Python, and traditional simulation platforms, often without SecOps teams realizing that fundamentally different computational methods are in use.

This seamless integration creates a challenge. Quantum software does not fit neatly into existing cybersecurity and compliance frameworks. While standard questions around data storage, encryption, and access control remain relevant, they do not fully capture how quantum and quantum-inspired software operates, especially when designed to transition from classical CPUs and GPUs to quantum processors in the future.

Industry research, including Deloitte’s 2025 Tech Trends, highlights the growing risk of "harvest now, decrypt later" scenarios as cryptographically relevant quantum computers advance. For sectors such as defense and aerospace, where sensitive workloads are often kept on-premise, the eventual need to access external quantum data centers introduces new operational security questions that existing SOPs do not yet address.

Quantum computing is no longer theoretical. Production-style deployments are already underway, and organizations that develop quantum-aware security frameworks now will be better positioned as adoption accelerates. Those that delay risk retrofitting security onto systems that have already become mission-critical.

Source: Dark Reading

Link:https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/cisos-should-be-asking-these-quantum-questions-today