Quantum machines are being built and made available before their security properties are well understood. Our research works at the interconnect between software and hardware, where the vulnerabilities and reliability limits of real quantum systems live.
Most attention on quantum and security points one way: the threat quantum computers pose to classical cryptography. That matters and it's the basis of our post-quantum advisory. But it leaves a quieter question underexamined: how secure and reliable are the quantum computers themselves?
As quantum hardware moves from labs into cloud-accessible services shared by many users, it inherits a new class of problems: cross-talk and interference between workloads, fault and reliability behaviour, side channels, and the integrity of results on machines you don't physically control.
That hardware-security frontier is our primary research focus, pursued through an ongoing doctoral programme and in collaboration with established security partners.
These are the threads the research returns to each grounded in the behaviour of real quantum hardware rather than idealised models.
Security weaknesses that arise at the physical and control layer of quantum processors, the attack surface of the machine itself, not the algorithms it runs.
How quantum systems fail, drift, and produce errors in practice, and what that means for trusting results from hardware you access remotely.
The new exposures that appear when quantum processors are offered as cloud services shared across users: interference, isolation, and integrity.
A selection of published research and presentations. Full details and links to follow.
Our work doesn't stay in publications. We build open, browser-based quantum computing platforms used for writing, running, and researching quantum algorithms.
A streamlined way to compose and run quantum computing experiments as workflows.
Try the beta →Quantum code that runs in the browser — zero-install Qiskit syntax, a drag-and-drop editor, and instant results.
Try the beta →A mature visual quantum computing platform for algorithm research — circuit editor, large gate library, and an integrated simulator to 32 qubits.
Open Uranium →We collaborate with researchers, security teams, and hardware groups across the quantum space. If your work touches the security or reliability of quantum systems, we'd like to hear from you.
