Print Email Facebook Twitter Deriving Government Roles for directing and supporting Quantum-safe Transitions Title Deriving Government Roles for directing and supporting Quantum-safe Transitions Author Kong, I. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Engineering, Systems and Services) Bharosa, Nitesh (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Contributor Liao, Hsin-Chung (editor) Cid, David Duenas (editor) Macadar, Marie Anne (editor) Bernardini, Flavia (editor) Department Engineering, Systems and Services Date 2024 Abstract Ensuring the secure provision of data and services using critical information infrastructures amidst the evolving technology landscape is a crucial yet recurrent task. However, these infrastructures can become vulnerable due to developments in quantum computing and modifying the infrastructures with quantum-safe (QS) technology is unlike regular control and maintenance. Organizations need to modify their cryptographic layers, which act as the fundamental building blocks of infrastructures. For organizations, many uncertainties pose challenges across technological, organizational and ecosystem areas. While QS technology is new and not yet available for implementation and adoption, changes in critical information infrastructures require collaboration among multiple public and private organizations spanning industries and borders. By understanding the roles, organizations may better understand what should be done for QS transitions. Until now, there has been no academic research examining the roles that government could or should play in QS transitions. This paper reveals 12 different roles, showing the diversity and breadth of actions needed. While there are many possible roles that still need to be allocated for coordinated efforts, there is a high reliance on the government, and organizations are waiting for and expecting governments to take more active roles in QS transitions. The results also signals that QS transition research is at its early stage with a clear governance void and lack of collective urgency in the ecosystem. Subject information infrastructurepolicy-makingQuantum-saferolesecuritytransition To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f5d0fbdc-8127-4c13-94d0-3536329bd829 DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3657054.3657114 Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ISBN 9798400709883 Source Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, DGO 2024 Event 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, DGO 2024, 2024-06-11 → 2024-06-14, Taipei, Taiwan Series ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2024 I. Kong, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen, Nitesh Bharosa Files PDF 3657054.3657114.pdf 284.61 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f5d0fbdc-8127-4c13-94d0-3536329bd829/datastream/OBJ/view