Quantum Cryptography, Cybersecurity

Quantum XChange CEO to Lead Cybersecurity Panel at ACT-IAC Summit

Avatar of Ivy Delaney
October 13, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Eddy Zervigon, CEO of Quantum XChange, will moderate a panel at the ACT-IAC 2026 Cyber Summit on October 14 in Reston, Virginia, focusing on the immediate implementation of post-quantum cryptography. The discussion arrives shortly after a U.S. Government Accountability Office report detailed challenges facing federal agencies preparing for this transition. Zervigon notes, “Transitioning to post-quantum cryptography is a complex undertaking, particularly across large government networks.” The panel will also address the escalating risk of “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attacks, where current encrypted data is targeted for future decryption by quantum computers.

Zervigon Moderates PQC Implementation Panel at ACT-IAC 2026

Quantum XChange recently assisted a federal agency in deploying quantum-safe security to its production sites, using existing network infrastructure instead of requiring hardware replacement. The panel, titled “Implementing Enterprise Security for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC),” will focus on moving beyond theoretical readiness to actual implementation of quantum-resistant security measures. The timing of the panel directly follows the release of a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing challenges faced by federal agencies in transitioning to post-quantum cryptography.

Zervigon notes that the report’s findings align with observed difficulties, but also with emerging solutions. “The GAO report highlights some of these challenges, but we’re also seeing meaningful progress firsthand,” said Zervigon. The discussion will center on managing encryption lifecycles, achieving cryptographic agility and deploying security across complex environments, offering actionable insights for government and industry leaders.

This tactic involves adversaries collecting encrypted data with the intention of decrypting it once sufficiently powerful quantum computers become available, representing a proactive threat beyond standard cybersecurity concerns. Eric Hay, Quantum XChange’s Senior Vice President of Field Engineering, will join Dr. Edward Mays, Commissioner for IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Quantum at U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Babur Kohy, Director of the Identity Assurance and Trusted Access Division at the U.S. General Services Administration, in examining these challenges.

The ACT-IAC 2026 Cyber Summit provides a venue for collaborative problem-solving. The panel is scheduled for October 14, 2026, from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. ET in the West Wing (Main Room) at the Carahsoft Conference & Collaboration Center.

The company’s recent addition to the Cisco Networking App Marketplace as a Cisco Technology Partner and partnership with Carahsoft further demonstrate a commitment to expanding access to quantum-safe security solutions through established public-sector procurement channels, Quantum XChange says. The panel aims to accelerate the transition to post-quantum cryptography by sharing practical experiences and approaches.

Transitioning to post-quantum cryptography is a complex undertaking, particularly across large government networks with critical systems and infrastructure.

Eddy Zervigon, CEO at Quantum XChange
More like this
Quantum CryptographyGAO says a cryptographically relevant quantum computer could arrive in the 2030s
Quantum CryptographyNCSC launches pilot to certify quantum-safe cyber advisors
Quantum SecurityLattice Sentry adds quantum security to server platforms
Quantum SecurityLattice Semiconductor wins award for quantum-safe FPGAs
Stay current

See today’s quantum computing news on Quantum Zeitgeist for the latest breakthroughs in qubits, hardware, algorithms, and industry deals.

Tags:
Cybersecurity encryption post-quantum cryptography
Avatar of Ivy Delaney

Ivy Delaney

Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

Latest Posts by Ivy Delaney: