Quantum Computing Fundamentals

Quantum Computing Fundamentals for Cybersecurity

The Quantum Computing Fundamentals Course by Cyberfox provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum computing and its impact on modern cybersecurity. This course covers the essential principles of quantum mechanics, quantum cryptography, and post-quantum cryptographic solutions, equipping IT professionals with the knowledge to protect their organizations against emerging quantum threats.

Who Is It For?

This course is designed for:

• CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers)
• Cybersecurity professionals
• IT managers
• Security architects
• IT infrastructure and network engineers
• Anyone interested in understanding the impact of quantum computing on cybersecurity

What You’ll Learn

• Core concepts of quantum computing and its potential to break classical encryption algorithms
• The threat quantum computing poses to current cryptographic techniques
• Quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptographic methods
• How to develop and implement a quantum readiness plan
• Best practices for protecting sensitive data in the post-quantum world

Course Objectives

• To introduce participants to the fundamentals of quantum computing and its implications for cybersecurity
• To provide actionable strategies for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography
• To enable participants to build a quantum readiness plan tailored to their organization’s cybersecurity needs

Outline

Introduction to Quantum Computing

• Introduction of the course
• Motivations behind quantum computing
• Description of a Quantum Phenomenon

The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

• Four postulates
• Quantum bits (qubits)
• Quantum registers (quregisters)
• Quantum gates
• Extracting information from quantum registers (Measurements)

IBM Quantum

• Entanglement
• Implementation examples for qubits

Elements of classical digital technology

• Logical gates and circuits
• Synchronous Sequential circuits

Quantum Gates

• One Qubit Gates
• Two (or more) Qubits Gates

Quantum Circuit Model

• Quantum Circuit: Overview
• The beam-splitter experiment

How to prepare a superposition?

• Preparing an arbitrary quantum state

No cloning theorem

• No Cloning Theorem – Proof

Quantum Algorithms

• Receipt of quantum algorithm design
• Initialization
• Quantum parallelism
• Amplitude amplification
• Measurement
• Classical post-processing
• Algorithms with polynomial speedup
• Grover’s algorithm

Quantum Algorithms

• Algorithms with superpolynomial speedup
• The Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithms
• Quantum Fourier Transform
• Phase estimation
• Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm and phase estimation
• Quantum Counting
• Shor’s Algorithms
• Quantum optimization

Programming Quantum Computers

• The main approaches
• Qiskit
• Q#
• IBM Quantum
• Xanadu Quantum Computer

Summary and outlook

• Post quantum cryptography
• Quantum communications