Customer conversations, management said, increasingly open not with what quantum computing can do, but with how to protect sensitive data once quantum machines can break today’s encryption. If that trend holds, quantum security could grow into a driver as significant as IonQ’s core computing business.
Chief Operating Officer and CFO Inder Singh noticed the change in discussions with enterprise customers and government agencies.
“A year ago it was about computing. Now it’s about computing,” Singh said. “But equally, how can you protect me from the inevitable?”
Security Becomes A Recurring Theme In Customer Meetings
“Quantum security now enters into the discussion,” Singh said, adding that organizations increasingly want to understand not only how quantum computing can create new capabilities, but also how it could expose them to future cybersecurity threats.
