By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
With
the massive hack of T-Mobile’s user database fresh in everyone’s minds,
Verizon announced Thursday that it is testing new technology to protect
data from hackers. Using a quantum-safe virtual private network (VPN),
the carrier is looking to cryptographic ciphers to provide a higher
level of protection, essentially, enhancing encryption methodologies to
make them future proof.
Quantum-safe cryptography refers to efforts to identify algorithms that
are resistant to attacks by both classical and quantum computers, to
keep information assets secure even if a large-scale quantum computer is
built in the future, according to ETSI, the European standards
organization. Continue Reading
Written for the wireless tower industry.
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