Tasmania's Quantum Leap - Three Clouds to Rule Them All

Tasmanian Quantum-Safe Network Project, featuring a keynote presentation by Bruno Huttner, Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives at ID Quantique. Bruno is from Switzerland, bringing his global expertise directly to Tasmania.

Bruno Huttner will share insights on the cutting-edge quantum secure QKD network implemented by IQuantique and SingTel in partnership with the Singapore Government. This groundbreaking project safeguards Singapore’s financial sector, government, and critical infrastructure—a model that Tasmania could replicate to establish itself as a leader in quantum cybersecurity within the National Quantum Ecosystem.

Tasmanian Quantum-Safe Network Project will include a panel of distinguished speakers including Marina Shteinberg and Timothy Slattery from Pentagram Advisory (https://pentagramadvisory.com.au) to discuss the importance of quantum-safe for SOCI, and Dr Seyit Camtepe and Sebastian Kish from CSIRO providing an update on their QKD testbed research and open to collaborate with the Tasmanian community.

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Australia has secured its first quantum key distribution (QKD) testbed, enabling the nation to test and develop cutting-edge cybersecurity innovations.

As quantum computing progresses, traditional systems face rising risks, which highlights the need to develop and implement quantum-secure communication technologies.

A QKD testbed uses quantum properties of light to securely transmit cryptographic keys between two optical devices, ensuring any interception attempts are detected using the laws of quantum physics.

While QKD is highly secure in theory, this testbed will allow researchers at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to turn theory into practice.

CSIRO’s data and digital specialist arm, Data61, is inviting researchers in quantum communications, cryptography, privacy, and security to collaborate.

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Pentagram Advisory, makes claims it's an Australian owned company, offering tailored advice and practical solutions on how best to protect your enterprise, people and assets from world security threats to sustain Australia's sovereignty and society. They partner with FIVECAST and CI-ISAC Australia.

In this episode of the Commercial Disco podcast, CI-SAC CEO David Sandell tells InnovationAus Editorial Director James Riley the purpose of the non-profit critical infrastructure information sharing center, the growing threat to critical infrastructure operators and why cyber needs to be a team sport

CI-SAC is setup for its "members" and when asked who their stakeholders are, they don't name them, but highlight an energy company, telco and renewables.

Everyday, governments and law enforcement agencies are using technology developed by and Adelaide company to trawl through countless online data, Fivecast, is a pioneer in open-source intelligence solutions, providing services at all levels of government in the Five Eyes nations and the US Department of Defence.

Fivecast’s range of technologies, users are able to access and assess critical information from a range of online sources, sifting through this at a scale not possible using only humans. 

Fivecast’s MATRIX tools allow for large-scale and automated risk assessments to be conducted on this data with the help of generative artificial intelligence.

Fivecast has established strategic partnerships across the globe

Meta’s open source Llama models are increasingly being used by a broad community of researchers, entrepreneurs, developers and government bodies. Making Llama available to U.S. government agencies, including those that are working on defense and national security applications, and private sector partners supporting their work. Partnering with companies including Accenture Federal Services, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI and Snowflake to bring Llama to government agencies.

Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its artificial intelligence models for military purposes. Meta's move is an exception to its "acceptable use policy," which forbade the use of the company's A.I. software for "military, warfare, nuclear industries," among other purposes. In a blog post on Monday, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said the company now backed "responsible and ethical uses" of the technology that supported the United States and "democratic values" in a global race for A.I. supremacy. The company said it would also share its technology with members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance: Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand in addition to the United States.