Quantum cryptography is one field where Europe can claim to be in the vanguard, and now Orange has joined in with a product designed to prevent current encryption methods from being broken by future quantum computers. Following the launch of Orange Quantum Defender on July 1st, the French operator has been busy evangelizing its benefits to enterprises. At first sight, this is a hard sell, given that commercially available quantum computers (QCs) capable of cracking public key cryptography are probably 10 to 15 years away. But the operator insists that enterprises should prepare now, especially those in critical sectors such as healthcare, banking, and defense, which could be caught out by a sudden breakthrough in QCs. To ram home the…