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The Zero Epoch Guidebook: Cyber Risk, Quantum Threats and Trust Recovery
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Publisher Price: $27.95
Publisher: Smartcio, LLC
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cybersecurity is built on trust.
Every login, online payment, software update, and secure connection depends on encryption. Modern cryptography, including RSA and public key infrastructure, was designed on the assumption that breaking it would take centuries.
Quantum computing changes that equation.
Artificial intelligence already enables deepfakes, voice cloning, and automated phishing. Quantum technology threatens something deeper. It challenges the mathematics that underpin identity verification, digital signatures, certificates, and secure communications. Systems may continue to operate, but the integrity of their results becomes uncertain.
This tipping point is called the Zero Epoch.
It begins when quantum capability can break asymmetric cryptography at scale. When that threshold is crossed, digital trust begins to erode across banking systems, cloud platforms, identity management systems, and enterprise networks.
The consequences are practical, not theoretical.
Accounts reconcile but contain fraudulent transactions. Payments clear but route to attackers. Certificates validate but no longer guarantee authenticity. Secure connections appear normal while underlying assurance weakens.
Unlike Y2K, there is no single date and no universal patch.
The Zero Epoch Guidebook explains:
- How quantum computing threatens encryption and PKI
- How AI accelerates cyber risk and deception
- Why traditional risk frameworks miss user-driven exposure
- What IT professionals must understand before trust degradation becomes systemic
Written by a Cybersecurity Executive with decades of Department of Defense experience, this guidebook translates quantum risk, post-quantum cryptography, and digital trust into clear, actionable insight for the modern IT professional and young cyber warrior.
Your systems may still be online. The real question is whether you can still trust them.
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