Recently, CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, has featured a piece on cybersecurity and how the CiViQ project aims to strengthen the security of critical information in modern network infrastructures.

CORDIS is the European Commission’s primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU’s framework programmes for research and innovation. It is considered one of the cornerstones of the Commission’s strategy to disseminate and exploit research results and it is governed and funded as part of the Horizon 2020 framework programme.

The aim of the project CiViQ, an initiative within the Communications research pillar of the Quantum Flagship, is to make Qunatum Key Distribution (QKD) a mainstream technology for communications and data transmissions at a global level. “We expect to use these prototypes in field demonstrations in a real optical network in 2020 while we will also continue to develop even more advanced systems with higher integration and performance in laboratory experiments,” Prof. Pruneri says.

The CiViQ (Continuous Variable Quantum Communications) project will run until end-September 2021. It will pave the way for flexible and cost-effective integration of quantum communication technologies, in particular continuous-variable QKD, into emerging optical telecommunication networks.