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Munich and Paris, March 18, 2021 Atos today announced that it has delivered its Atos Quantum Learning Machine (Atos QLM), the world's highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Atos QLM is installed in the recently opened LRZ Quantum Integration Centre (QIC), Bavarias preeminent computing facility. The center was designed to bring practical quantum applications to the scientific community by advancing the convergence of quantum computing and supercomputing.

The LRZ is among the first computing centers worldwide to focus on the integration of quantum computing in an HPC environment with its Quantum Integration Centre. The hybrid quantum-HPC approach shows significant promises in effectively using todays classical computers to harness the power of near-term quantum applications. Leveraging both the Atos QLM and its collaboration with key players like Atos, the Finnish-German startup IQM and other partners, LRZ will be able to make quantum technologies available to more users. By taking advantage of existing HPC infrastructures, this initiative will allow them to explore and capture the opportunities made possible by quantum computing within a couple of years.

At the LRZ, we are a partner for digitalization in science. We are expanding our portfolio by integrating services for quantum computing. This way we enable world-class researchers to find new approaches to solving grand-challenge scientific problems. However, we are only at the beginning with this technology. At the LRZ Quantum Integration Centre, scientists will be able to learn how to use it and prepare themselves for the future of quantum computing. The collaboration with Atos and the use of the Atos Quantum Learning Machine are an essential building block in our Quantum Computing strategy, explained Prof. Dieter Kranzlmller, Chairman of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre.

LRZ and Atos share a very pragmatic approach to quantum computing that focuses on quantum-accelerated HPC, with the aim of delivering early strategic benefits to users before we fully enter the post-quantum era. The Atos QLM is a direct extension of this approach and we are honored to be one of the first hardware partners of the LRZ Quantum Integration Centre. It is a fantastic project and marks the significant contribution made by LRZ to the quantum computing community, said Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

The LRZ Quantum Integration Centre supports the Munich Quantum Valley, a central element of the Bavarian quantum initiative to drive quantum computing forward at a national and international level. The partnership between Atos and LRZ is a testament to the ambition of the Bavarian authorities to become an internationally competitive quantum location by incorporating international, leading-edge knowledge, skills and technologies. Subject to the approval of the state parliament, the Free State of Bavaria committed to providing a total of 300 million euros.

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About AtosAtos is a global leader in digital transformation with 105,000 employees and annual revenue of over 11 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos operates under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.

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Photograph of a quantum computing chip that a Google team used in their claimed quantum computer. Photo: Nature 574, 505-510 (2019).

The Union finance ministry presented the national budget for 2021 one and a half months ago. One of the prime motivations of a nationalist government should be cyber-security, and it is high time we revisited this technological space from the context of this budget and the last one.

One of the highlights of the 2020 budget was the governments new investment in quantum computing. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharamans words then turned the heads of researchers and developers working in this area: It is proposed to provide an outlay of 8,000 crore rupees over a period of five years for the National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications.

Thanks to the pandemic, it is not clear how much funding the government transferred in the first year. The 2021 budget speech made no reference to quantum technologies.

Its important we discuss this topic from a technological perspective. Around four decades ago, physicist Richard Feynman pointed out the possibility of devices like quantum computers in a famous speech. In the early 1990s, Peter Shor and others proved that such computers could easily factor the product of two large prime numbers a task deemed very difficult for the classical computers we are familiar with. This problem, of prime factorisation, underlies the utility of public key crypto-systems, used to secure digital transactions, sensitive information, etc. online.

If we have a practicable quantum computer, the digital security systems currently in use around the world will break down quickly, including that of financial institutions. But commercial quantum computers are still many years away.

On this count, the economically developed nations are on average far ahead of others. Countries like the US, Canada, Australia and China have already made many advancements towards building usable quantum computers with meaningful capabilities. Against this background, the present governments decision in February 2020 to invest such a large sum in quantum technologies was an outstanding development.

The problem now lies with distributing the money and achieving the actual technological advances. So far, there is no clear evidence of this in the public domain.

A logical step in this direction would be to re-invest a large share of the allocation in indigenous development. This is also where the problems lie. One must understand that India has never been successful in fabricating advanced electronic equipment. While we have very good software engineers and theoretical computer scientists, there is no proven expertise in producing chips and circuits. We might have some limited exposure in assembling and testing but nothing beyond that.

So while Atmanirbhar Bharat is an interesting idea, it will surely take a very long time before we find ourselves able to compete with developed nations vis--vis seizing on this extremely sophisticated technology involving quantum physics. In the meantime, just as we import classical computers and networking equipment, so should we proceed by importing quantum equipment, until our indigenous capability in this field matures to a certain extent.

For example, demonstrating a four-qubit quantum system or designing a proof-of-concept quantum key distribution (QKD) circuit might be a nice textbook assignment. However, the outcome will not nearly be competitive to products already available in the international arena. IBM and Google have demonstrated the use of machines with more than 50 qubits. (These groups have participation from Indian scientists working abroad.) IBM has promised a thousand-qubit machine by 2023. ID Quantique has been producing commercial QKD equipment for more than five years.

India must procure such finished products and start testing them for security trapdoors before deploying them at home. Doing so requires us to train our engineers with state-of-the-art equipment as soon as possible.

In sum, indigenous development shouldnt be discontinued but allocating a large sum of money for indigenous development alone may not bring the desired results at this point.

By drafting a plan in the 2020 Union budget to spend Rs 8,000 crore, the government showed that it was farsighted. While the COVID-19 pandemic has made it hard to assess how much of this money has already been allocated, we can hope that there will be renewed interest in the matter as the pandemic fades.

This said, such a huge allocation going to academic institutes and research laboratories for trivial demonstrations might be imprudent. In addition, we must begin by analysing commercially available products, made by international developers, so we can secure Indias security infrastructure against quantum adversaries.

Serious science requires deep political thought, people with strong academic commitment in the government and productive short- as well as long-term planning. I hope the people in power will enable the Indian community of researchers to make this quantum leap.

Subhamoy Maitra is a senior professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interests are cryptology and quantum computing.

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Lets face it: reusing the same password over and over puts your personal data at serious risk. Its why you need to use a password management app now.

Part of our philosophy is that basic password management should be free for everyone, started Michael Crandell, CEO of Bitwarden. I met up with him at a beachfront hotel in Santa Barbara, near the companys headquarters.

Bitwarden makes a popular, open source password management software that also happens to be free.

Thats good to know, especially at a time when another popular password management app called LastPass is making changes on March 16 that have many users looking for a new option. LastPass will begin charging for some features that used to be free. This includes the ability to sync your passwords across all of your devices, including tablets, mobile phones and computers at the same time.

One key aspect of a password manager is that it be available to you on every device on every platform that you use, said Crandell, well aware of the changes happening at the competition.

Password managers work by generating strong, unique and random passwords for every site you visit (14 characters seems to be the sweet spot for maximum security, according to Crandell). The app also stores all of the information, so when you come back to the website, the password manager fills in all of the info for you.

You just have to choose one master password to secure your account and enable two-factor authentication to be sure no one else can get in.

Bitwarden as a company as a service can never, ever see your passwords, theyre only available to you, explained Crandell.

There are also some other free password manager options remaining. Dashlane has a free product that is excellent, but again, you can only access your passwords on one device. This means that you would be typing or copying and pasting passwords from your phone to computer or vice versa every time you wanted to use them. Also, Dashlanes free tier is limited to 50 passwords.

Google has a basic password management feature called Password Manager, but its mostly useful only if you stick to Chrome browser, a Chromebook and Android.

Apples iCloud Keychain is also a good choice but this is even more limited in that it only works well across Apples devices. If you only use Apple products, like an iPhone and Mac computer, this could be a free and easy way to get started with more secure passwords.

No matter which password manager you choose, its a step in a secure direction. Just be sure to also enable two-factor authentication everywhere you can.

As for Bitwarden, the free plan really is free, including syncing across all devices and as many passwords as you want to store. The main thing you dont get is the ability to securely share passwords with another family member. Youll have to upgrade to a paid personal plan for that.

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Attendees will explore the mind of a hacker, role play and share real-world experiences at the free two-day event hosted by Huntress.

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On the heels of the exploitation ofMicrosoft Exchange servers and the SolarWinds hack, managed detection and response provider Huntress is hosting its second annual freehack_it event on March 23-24. The two-day virtual event is designed to let attendees sharpen their trade, network with security professionals and get hands-on training.

For the first time, Huntress is also offering a "Hacking Windows" pre-day on March 22, a four-hour virtual hands-on hacking lab with the goal of preparing IT staff to defend against threats to their networks.

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"We're going to let folks get hands-on and bring them into a virtual room and play pretend hacker," said John Hammond, senior security researcher at Huntress. Attendees will learn how hacking works and the opportunities for threat actors when they assess a target. They will learn how the offense works, he added.

"The real mission is to get folks educated," Hammond said. The two-day conference will offer three presentations, "and we don't want it to be boring people to death with slideshows, so we're trying to keep it simple."

Some of the content will be repeated on the second day in the event that people can't attend day one, he said.

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The event is "by the MSP community, for the MSP community with members of the MSP community onstage with us,'' Hammond said. That said, it is open to all security professionals at all levels of expertise.

"We want to make hack_it approachable for anyone," he said. "We want to make sure whether you're an absolute beginner and don't know the difference between a mouse and a keyboard, or you're an uber lead hacker and doing pen tests left and rightwe want to bring something to the table."

The most enjoyable thing from this event is that it will be audience-centric, Hammond said. The idea is to "have them drive the ship."

For example, the "Making the Malware: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" session will allow attendees to "break out your hacker hoodie and prepare to get shady" while planning a big cyberattack.

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Another session, "Cooking up Cybercrime: You Choose the Recipe for Ransomware," imagines the attendee is the "head chef, and malware is on the menu." The audience chooses "what ingredients go in our inject," and they will learn about all the components involved in pulling off a big hack.

In the "Tales from the Trenches: Hacker Horror" session, members of the IT and small business communities will be able to share actual events they have worked through and provide insights and lessons learned.

Hammond stressed that beginner sessions are designed to be high level and offer role play, but a session he is participating in, "Under the Radar: Bypassing Antivirus," gets technical, and attendees will craft a payload for offensive operations, and then refine it to bypass detection by antivirus software.

The SolarWinds and Exchange incidents "raise a lot of concerns about on-premises software I use and trust," Hammond said, and "how come those indicators of compromise were not picked up by my antivirus software and my [extended detection and response] EDR?"

Huntress is tying hack_it "to real-world events and the activity we're seeing in the industry and in the cybersecurity space," he added. "We play with the mentality that understanding offense and knowing how the bad guys work is the best defense."

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