Quantum Security Governance for City Authorities: What Urban Leaders Need to Know About IoT Infrastructure and Public Data Risk
Peer conversation for city leaders on quantum threats to IoT infrastructure, urban mobility systems, and public data security.
Event Details
- Who else is in the room
- Senior level executive peers, industry leaders, experts in risk, technology and business. Specifically: city managers, CISOs, and senior technology officials at municipal authorities, urban transport operators, and smart city programme teams with governance accountability for IoT infrastructure security and public data.
- Access
- Members only. Bundled with Expert Membership. Included with Expert Member tier
- Sponsor
- Organised by QSECDEF
- Facilitator
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Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard Quantum Security Defence - Rules of engagement
- Chatham House Rule Chatham House Rule. Discussion is on the record; attribution is not. Participants may share what was said but not who said it.
- Format
- Structured Q&A Flexible between roundtable, structured Q&A or in-person hosted dinner
- Who Should Join
- This conversation is for city managers, CISOs, and senior technology officials at municipal authorities, urban transport operators, and smart city programme teams where IoT infrastructure security and public data governance sit at the strategic level. It is most relevant to officials responsible for large-scale IoT deployments, mobility data systems, or public safety communications networks. It is not for IT operations teams without strategic authority. Participants are expected to carry governance accountability for their city's digital infrastructure security.
About This Conversation
Why this matters now
Smart city infrastructure presents a specific quantum security challenge: IoT device populations with operational lifetimes of 10-15 years, cryptographic libraries that are difficult to update in the field, and data sets, mobility patterns, utility consumption, public safety feeds, that carry long-term sensitivity under harvest-now-decrypt-later attack. The EU's NIS2 Directive brings municipal authorities and urban transport operators within scope of essential services security obligations for the first time in many jurisdictions. NIST's August 2024 standards finalisation gives city authorities a technical anchor to plan against, but smart city IoT standards bodies have not yet published dedicated post-quantum guidance. City leaders are managing a migration problem in an environment where most of the installed base was not designed to receive cryptographic updates.
Outcomes
What you will leave with
- A clear risk model for smart city quantum exposure: which data categories (mobility records, utility consumption, public safety systems, citizen service data) carry the highest harvest-now-decrypt-later risk, and in what operational timeframe
- A peer-tested framework from city authorities who have begun engaging their IoT infrastructure providers on PQC migration: the questions to ask, the contractual levers that exist, and the answers to be sceptical of
- Clarity on the NIS2 obligations that apply to urban authorities and transport operators, and what constitutes adequate discharge of the essential services security duty in relation to cryptographic resilience
- A shared view of the vendor landscape: where smart city IoT platform providers are in their own PQC migration, and what city authorities can realistically require of them in the current procurement cycle
- Practical framing for the elected official dimension: how to make quantum security governance legible to a council or mayor's office that understands public service continuity but has not yet connected it to cryptographic risk
Your Facilitator
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard
Founder, QSECDEF
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard has over 15 years of international experience in deep-tech, telecommunications, and defence communications networks. Her expertise spans intellectual property, advanced communications systems, and quantum secure communications. She has lived and worked across Poland, Denmark, the United States, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Germany. Anna holds dual Master of Science degrees in Theoretical Cosmology from the University of Southern Denmark and Electrical Engineering from Wright State University, USA. She is the founder and board member of Quantum Security Defence.
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