Our world today is more connected than ever. We have our pacemakers, 3D printers, Insulin pumps and even cars connected to the internet. Moore's law states that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every two years. Or in simple terms, the processing speed will double every two years or 18 months or 12 months. With the drastic growth in processing powers, we saw a steep increase in the internet connected systems and software. The millennials are too dependent on internet and apps for personal data storage, banking, studies and even employment. The source code of Apollo 11 Guidance system that took the US to the moon and back was published on GitHub. It contains 145,000 Lines of Code (LOC). Now compare that with a space shuttle that uses a 400,000 LOC, curiosity (rover) 2.5 Million LOC, Android 12 Million LOC and Google services which is at a whopping 2 Billion LOC. Many researches state that, on average, there are around 30 to 50 bugs in 1000 LOC. No...

I have been working the cybersecurity field for many years. I have come across people with different levels of technical knowledge, but very few possess the ability to explain a complex technical concept in simple terms. The funny part is, I have also seen people explaining simple concepts in the most complicated form. Understanding and correlating is the mother of all knowledge No technology remains fixed. Technology starts, develops, persists, mutates, stagnates, and declines. With the ever-growing advancement in technology, the amount of time a person spends in understanding the technology is comparatively lower. Gone are the days when children and teenagers would play around with breaking and reassembling toys. Today's children and teenagers spend most of their playtime on gadgets and social media platforms. The ability to break and reassemble things is slowly fading away from the younger generation. The education pattern in schools and colleges must be upgraded to compl...

Modern cryptography, including  elliptic curve cryptography , is being used extensively for securing our internet payments, banking transactions, emails and even phone conversations. The majority of today’s cryptographic algorithms are based on public-key encryption, which is considered to be secure against attacks from modern computers. Quantum computing can simply break this security by reverse computing private keys faster than a conventional computer. RISK OF QUANTUM COMPUTING Although quantum computers are still in their infancy and non-operational, with publicly known experimental quantum computers too small to attack conventional cryptographic algorithms, many national governments and organizations have begun to understand the risk involved when this technology becomes a practical reality. Military agencies and leading technology companies have already increased fundings and accelerated processes in developing quantum computers because of the fact that ...