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SoftBank Taps SandboxAQ Toolset to Help Identify Quantum, AI CyberthreatsSoftBank Taps SandboxAQ Toolset to Help Identify Quantum, AI Cyberthreats

AQtive Guard aims to audit existing IT infrastructure and identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Berenice Baker, Editor, Enter Quantum, co-editor AI Business

April 16, 2024

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Telecommunication and IT company SoftBank has deployed SandboxAQ’s AQtive Guard cryptograph management platform to identify AI- and quantum computer-based cyberattacks.

SoftBank’s advanced research group initially carried out a test to ensure AQtive Guard could discover any cryptographic and certificate-based vulnerabilities in IT systems.

The company used AQtive Guard to monitor a local government network for potential cryptographic vulnerabilities, the network itself, endpoints and applications.

It discovered several government servers were using non-recommended encryption methods or sending unencrypted traffic and detected several vulnerable certificates that required updates.

This enabled the SoftBank team to take the appropriate actions to resolve those issues.

NIST initiated a process to solicit, evaluate, and standardize quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms in 2016.  It unveiled the fourth of its first group of algorithms in 2023 and aims to publish the standardization documents this year.

In a related process, in 2022, a U.S. Presidential Executive Order directed government agencies to inventory IT systems using encryption vulnerable to quantum computers.

Other organizations will need to follow suit to ensure they are protected from the threat of quantum computers breaking public key cryptography and other emerging cybersecurity threats.

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Tools like SandboxAQ’s AQtive Guard are designed to automate and simplify this audit process.

SoftBank and SandboxAQ previously partnered on post-quantum cryptography-related projects including successfully testing a hybrid of combined classical and post-quantum cryptography algorithms in early 2023.

About the Author

Berenice Baker

Editor, Enter Quantum, co-editor AI Business, Informa TechTarget

Berenice is the editor of Enter Quantum and co-editor of AI Business. She has over 20 years of experience as a technology journalist, having previously worked at The Engineer and Global Defence Technology.

Before that, she worked as an IT consultant, fuelling her passion for technology and innovation. She graduated with one of the country's first-ever IT degrees so long ago it coincided with Tim Berners-Lee inventing the World Wide Web.

Berenice lives in north London with her cat Huxley. In her spare time, she enjoys going to music gigs, museums and galleries, dabbling in art and playing guitar (badly).

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