Manassas-HQed SylLab is Building Post-quantum Cybersecurity

The leadership of Manassas, Virginia-based SylLab Systems doesn’t want you to think about quantum as a far-off, hard-to-understand technology. It instead wants other company heads to think about how the tech will impact their security systems when it arrives.

Founder and CEO Bart Slowik created SylLab Systems, which is based on post-quantum cryptography — more on that below — to push peers into considering that exact future. Slowik started the post-quantum security startup, his second company, in late 2019 because he and his four-person team are “essentially privacy and cryptography enthusiasts” who recognized the challenge ahead once quantum systems reached their full potential. He expects that development within the decade, with computers still relying on existing security that’s not designed to defend against quantum threats. He thus created SylLab to secure the internet of today against future quantum threats by helping companies transition their cyberinfrastructure to a post-quantum world.

Post-quantum cryptography differs from cybersecurity through quantum key distribution; Quantum key requires quantum computers, which are still being fully built out. Quantum cryptography, on the other hand, is about securing the computers of today against future quantum attacks with algorithms.

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