A strategic partnership for cybersecurity modernisation

TDT | Manama

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The The National Cyber Secutiry Center of the Kingdom of Bahrain and SandboxAQ, a global leader in AI-driven cybersecurity and cryptographic management, yesterday announced a landmark partnership, aimed at establishing a nationwide cybersecurity modernisation framework.

The partnership marks one of the world’s first large-scale commitments to transitioning towards a quantum-safe economy.

As a founding member of the UNICC AI Hub on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), SandboxAQ will support Bahrain in securing sovereign data, critical infrastructure and sensitive government and private-sector systems against rapidly evolving cyber, cryptographic, and quantum computing threats.

The announcement comes as governments worldwide prepare for “Q-Day”, the point when cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) will be capable of breaking today’s widely used encryption.

While experts now estimate CRQCs to be feasible by as early as 2029, the threat is already present through “harvest-now, decrypt-later” attacks, where adversaries steal encrypted data today with plans to decrypt it once quantum capabilities mature.

For governments, this includes classified communications and diplomatic cables.