Fundamentals of Encryption & Quantum-Safe Techniques

Fundamentals of Encryption & Quantum-Safe Techniques, course code SE0101EN, is a short beginner course on Cognitive Class, IBM's free learning platform, with an estimated effort of 3 hours in English and a certificate offered on completion. It has three modules. The first introduces encryption: why IT infrastructure needs it against today's and tomorrow's attackers, the types of encryption, the history of the field and IBM's contributions, what happens when encryption is broken, and encryption keys and key management. The second covers the quantum era: what quantum computers are, how they will change the world for better and worse, how they are expected to break the encryption in use today, and what quantum-safe cryptography is. The third is practical: cataloguing and classifying data, building a cryptographic inventory, creating cryptographic agility and keeping visibility, closing with IBM's own quantum-safe solution.

Each section ends with a short quiz and there is a final quiz covering the slides, speaker notes and videos. The course is built from videos and slide presentations with full speaker notes. IBM says it is meant for people who want to understand the move to quantum-safe cryptography; general knowledge of systems and applications is assumed, but the key ideas of encryption and quantum computing are explained inside the course. The page lists healthcare, IT, insurance, manufacturing and telecoms as target industries.