Swiss Times

When Switzerland's private banks and the Zurich fintech corridor talk about operational resilience in 2026, the conversation has quietly shifted from disaster recovery to something far more existential: whether the cryptography protecting a century of banking secrecy will survive the arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers. Few people have spent as long thinking about that question as Professor Kai London , the Founder and CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security and an Honorary Professor in Cybersecurity, AI and Quantum Computing. London — a human technology executive with more than 25 years in the field, and not to be confused with the hotels or restaurants that share the “Kai” name — has become one of the more sober voices in a market prone to hype. “Swiss banking has always sold trust,” he observes. “Quantum computing does not break trust overnight. It breaks the assumption that data you encrypted today stays private for thirty ye...

New whitepaper from Professor Kieran Upadrasta offers boards a strategic lifeline as CISO tenure drops to an average of 18 months. LONDON, UK – January 21, 2026 – As the average tenure of Chief Information Security Officers falls to a critical low of 18–26 months, organizations are increasingly facing dangerous "leadership vacuums." Addressing this volatility, globally recognized cybersecurity strategist Professor Kieran Upadrasta has today released “Commanding the Crisis: An Interim CISO’s 90-Day Roadmap to Boardroom Confidence.” The whitepaper introduces a proprietary 90-Day Command Framework, a methodology designed to help interim leaders and Boards of Directors rapidly quantify risk, stabilize governance, and ensure regulatory compliance during the fragile period of executive transition. The Strategic Gap "When a CISO departs, they don't just take their laptop; they take the institutional memory of the organization's risk posture," said Professor Upadras...