Towards quantum-resistant security
Ashish Kundu
Head of Cybersecurity Research, Cisco

Abstract: Quantum computing capabilities are evolving rapidly. With that increasing are the security risks especially to the public key ciphersuites widely used in day-today lives as well as in protecting and safeguarding national and international secrets; primarily due to Shor’s and Grover’s algorithms. Adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography is a hard problem given the complexities of today’s internet and computing stack. In this talk, we will talk about what we are doing about this problem of adoption at Cisco Research and give a demo of the research prototype of this work.
Bio: Dr. Ashish Kundu is currently at Cisco Research as its Head of Cybersecurity Research. Ashish’s current research interests are centered around holistic security, quantum-resistant security and applied cryptography, and trustworthiness of AI and synthetic code. He worked at Nuro as its Head of Cybersecurity, and as Research Staff Member at IBM T J Watson Research Center, and has been honored with the prestigious Master Inventor recognition multiple times by IBM Research. He has led security, privacy and compliance of self-driving cars, cloud platforms for healthcare, education based on AI/ML. His research has led to more than 180 patents filed with more than 150 patents granted, several publications, and influenced a number of products in the industry. Ashish received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2010, and he was awarded the prestigious CERIAS Diamond Award for his outstanding contributions to cybersecurity. He is an IEEE Fellow.