This month’s Cyber Security Meetup took place at RBC Waterpark Place on August 24th. This was a special month for us as QEYnet’s Cordell Grant was one of the two speakers. In his talk, he gave the audience an overview of the threats of quantum computers to current encryption schemes and an introduction to QKD. 

This month’s Cyber Security Meetup took place on March 18th at the Toronto Public Library’s Northern District branch. Ed Dubrovsky gave a presentation on cyber security lessons from the field and Jamie Baxter gave a talk on why joining a “capture the flag team” is a great way to develop “fingers-on-keyboard” skills. We highly recommend the Cyber Security Meetup events to anyone in the Toronto area who is interested in cyber security as the event draws a large and diverse crowd.

ID Quantique hosted their annual winter school last week (January 14th to 20th) in the beautiful town of Les Diablerets, Switzerland. The winter school is a great introduction to the QKD and the state of the field. The winter school is presented as a series of lectures on different topics ranging from the background of QKD, an introduction to quantum computing, QKD in space, quantum hacking and includes some hands-on work with ID-Quantiuque’s QKD systems. All of this takes place alongside fun winter activities like skiing and curling.