US President Biden signed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act into law on 21 December 2022. The law is designed to secure the federal government systems and data against the threat of quantum-enabled data breaches ahead of ‘Q Day,’ the point at which quantum computers can break existing cryptographic algorithms. Experts believe quantum computing will advance to this stage in the next five to 10 years, potentially leaving all digital information vulnerable to cyber-threat actor
