PinnedShujaatali Badami·Aug 15The Quantum-GUARD Act Is Aimed at the Wrong Layer of the GridA bipartisan Senate bill landed yesterday called the Quantum-GUARD Act, and it would direct federal agencies to evaluate quantum-related…
Shujaatali Badami·Sep 24A Revoked 9.1 Tells Us Where ICS Advisories Are Heading NextThis morning I was scrolling the CISA ICS feed and one entry stopped me. The advisory for Siemens Mendix Runtime, ICSA-26–209–02, came back…
Shujaatali Badami·Jul 16The Crypto-Agility Tax Nobody Wants to PayA few weeks ago I was rereading a vendor whitepaper on securing field devices against the quantum threat, and one sentence stopped me. It…
Shujaatali Badami·Jul 5What Q-CTRL’s Quiet Week Says About NISQ in Eighteen MonthsA few days ago I was reading through Q-CTRL’s Q2B Tokyo write-up and one line kept pulling my attention back. Not the defense sensing…A response icon4A response icon4
InSystem WeaknessbyShujaatali Badami·Jun 20How a Packet Flood Silences a PLC’s Own WatchdogA few weeks ago a CISA advisory landed for the Mitsubishi MELSEC iQ-F Series FX5-ENET/IP Ethernet module, and a small phrase in the summary…A response icon3A response icon3
InCoinsBenchbyShujaatali Badami·Jun 8What a Post-Quantum Blockchain Cannot Fix at the Grid EdgeA few weeks ago I was reading through a batch of CISA ICS advisories that landed on the same day, and a pattern caught my attention. On…A response icon6A response icon6
Shujaatali Badami·May 27When Quantum Advantage Becomes a DistractionLast week I had two browser tabs open on the same monitor. One held the Digital Journal roundup of five quantum computing developments from…A response icon1A response icon1
Shujaatali Badami·May 11What the next eighteen months of federal post-quantum buying will actually look likeA few days ago I was reading the immixGroup piece in Washington Technology on how IT vendors should approach the federal post-quantum…
Shujaatali Badami·Apr 28A twelve-qubit Bell violation, and why I read it as a cryptography paperYesterday a paper landed on arXiv that I want to read like a cryptography paper, even though strictly it isn’t one. The title is…
Shujaatali Badami·Apr 25When a Quantum Advantage Claim Quietly DeflatesA few weeks ago I was reading a fresh arxiv preprint over a long flight back from Chicago to Boston, and a small detail in the abstract…