WD advances next-generation trusted infrastructure with industry's first post-quantum cryptography hard drives to help secure the future of AI data.

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    "excerpt": "WD advances next-generation trusted infrastructure with industry's first post-quantum cryptography hard drives to help secure the future of AI data.\n\nWestern Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: WDC), the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy, today announced a significant step in next-generation infrastructure security with the integration of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into its newest high-capacity Ultrastar(R) UltraSMR hard disk drives. As AI infrastructure evolves from compute-centric deployments to data systems that persistently retain information across every inference, training run, and interaction, the durability and security of that data becomes foundational, not optional. These drives are currently in qualification with multiple hyperscale customers, reflecting strong early interest in quantum-resilient storage architectures.\n\nAI data systems generate and retain massive, long-lived data sets. Securing that data over decades, not just years, must be a core requirement of modern infrastructure. WD's launch of the first hard drives to implement NIST-approved quantum-resistant algorithms marks a definitive industry transition - from theoretical planning to deployed hardware-level defense. By hardening the root of trust, WD provides a critical safeguard against threats like harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) and similar attacks. This helps protect the massive data...",
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