Entropy Matters: What You Need to Know

Internet security is at risk. Quantum technologies, private and state-sponsored hacking, poor software maintenance practices and weak cryptography are on track to cost $2.1 trillion in data breaches globally by 2019. Strong cryptography is required to secure the Internet, but it is less about the choice of algorithm and more about generating unpredictable keys and keeping them secure. High quality entropy is required to generate the digital keys that provide organizations with the capabilities for secure transactions and storage of sensitive information. It is an important cornerstone of security in an era of complex cloud-computing deployments, machine intelligence which is coming on-line at an accelerating rate and the near advent of quantum computers.