QKD as a Secu­ri­ty Tool at the G7 Sum­mit

2024 is the year of the Ita­li­an Pre­si­den­cy of the G7, the annu­al inter­go­vern­men­tal forum con­sis­ting of Cana­da, France, Ger­ma­ny, Japan, Ita­ly, the United King­dom, the United Sta­tes and repre­sen­ta­ti­ves from the Euro­pean Uni­on. From 13 to 15 June, the G7 Sum­mit was held at Bor­go Egna­zia, in the city of Fasa­no, Apu­lia. The Sum­mit is the lar­ger gathe­ring in the con­text of the one-year Forum, fea­turing the par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on of the Pre­si­dent of the Euro­pean Coun­cil and of the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on repre­sen­ting the Euro­pean Uni­on and of a num­ber of Sta­tes and Inter­na­tio­nal Orga­ni­sa­ti­ons invi­ted by the host coun­try, in addi­ti­on to the Heads of Sta­te and Govern­ment of the G7 Count­ries.
One of the main the­mes of the Sum­mit was inno­va­ti­on, to the ext­ent that the G7 Ita­li­an Pre­si­den­cy published a call for expres­si­ons of inte­rest for the sup­p­ly of inno­va­ti­ve pro­ducts and ser­vices cha­rac­te­ri­sed by signi­fi­cant tech­no­lo­gi­cal con­tent. The TIM Group, through Tel­sy, the cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and cryp­to­gra­phy com­pe­tence cen­ter of TIM Enter­pri­se, and QTI, pro­vi­ded quan­tum secu­re con­nec­ti­vi­ty for sen­si­ti­ve com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons during the Sum­mit. The com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons bet­ween the Press Cent­re loca­ted at Fie­ra di Bari in Bari and jour­na­lists at Bor­go Egna­zia in Fasa­no, at a distance of around 80km, were secu­red by QTI’s Quan­tum Key Dis­tri­bu­ti­on sys­tems and Telsy’s encryp­tors. Rather than a public demons­tra­ti­on, this repre­sen­ted a real-world appli­ca­ti­on, whe­re QKD tech­no­lo­gy was used as a tool to address the need to uncon­di­tio­nal­ly secu­re live com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons and main­tain accu­ra­te report­ing in the con­text of the media covera­ge of the G7 Sum­mit.
Back in 2021, QTI’s QKD sys­tems per­for­med the first public demons­tra­ti­on of an inter­go­vern­men­tal quan­tum com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on bet­ween three count­ries – Ita­ly, Slove­nia and Croa­tia.  At that time, three musi­cal quar­tets per­for­med a pie­ce in each of the three count­ries, exploi­ting the quan­tum cryp­to­gra­phy estab­lished for the demons­tra­ti­on. In 2021, the main focus was intro­du­cing the tech­no­lo­gy to a wide high-level audi­ence and the matu­ri­ty of QKD by show­ca­sing a quan­tum secu­re video­con­fe­rence as one of the many alre­a­dy tes­ted appli­ca­ti­ons. In the 2024 G7 Sum­mit, the quan­tum secu­re con­nec­tion was used as a tool for gua­ran­te­e­ing the secu­ri­ty of sen­si­ti­ve com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons, testi­fy­ing the grea­ter matu­ri­ty and trust in QKD tech­no­lo­gy and the defi­ni­ti­ve shift from demons­tra­ti­on to prac­ti­cal appli­ca­ti­ons. Click here for more infor­ma­ti­on about the Sum­mit.

Source refe­rence: https://www.qticompany.com/qtis-qkd-systems-to-secure-communications-at-the-g7-summit-2024/