Quantum Risk Explained

Recorded Future warns that quantum computing is moving toward early practical use and poses strategic cyber risks: cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) could break widely used public-key algorithms, enabling decryption of historical collections and forgery of signatures. The report highlights an active near-term threat model—"harvest now, decrypt later"—supported by documented large-scale routing manipulation, outlines additional risks from Grover-accelerated search and quantum/AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, reviews regulatory drivers for post-quantum migration, and provides phased mitigation guidance and a utilities-sector risk scenario.