The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

Ashish Kundu - Cisco

Students: Spring 2026, unless noted otherwise, sessions will be virtual on Zoom.

Quantum Secure Networks

Mar 11, 2026

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Abstract

Quantum threats to cryptography has been fueled by Shor's and Grover's quantum algorithms and their derivatives. That has led a decade-long development of post-quantum cryptography algorithms and standards. While there are question lies about when Cryptanalytically Relevant Quantum Computers (CRQC) will be realized practically, they're imminent threats. In the meantime, Quantum computers and networks are evolving faster to take us closer to their realization in a practical and scalable manner, which will also help advance the development of CRQCs. In this talk, I will present how evolution of cryptography is shaping up, how to achieve quantum resistant security in a holistic manner and the development of quantum secure networks.

About the Speaker

Ashish Kundu
Ashish Kundu is currently Head of Cybersecurity Research at Cisco Research. Ashish is an IEEE Fellow. He has also worked as: Head of Cybersecurity at Nuro.ai. During 2011- 2019, he worked as Research Staff Member, and Master Inventor and at the IBM T J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He has led the Research and Development efforts for Security and Compliance for IBM Watson Health Cloud, IBM Watson Education, and IBM Watson Genomic Analytics. Dr. Kundu served on the IBM Research AI Ethics committee during 2015 - 2016. Dr. Kundu received Ph.D. from Computer Science at Purdue University and then he joined IBM T J Watson Research Center after that. He has been affiliated with CERIAS. Ashish is an ACM Distinguished Member, an ex-ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a Master Inventor (at IBM Research).


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