Former Edison Electric Institute SVP Scott Aaronson Joins Qtonic Quantum as Senior Advisor for Critical Infrastructure and Energy Sector Cybersecurity

Qtonic Quantum announced that Scott Aaronson, Principal of Aaronson Resilience Advisors and former Senior Vice President for Energy Security and Industry Operations at the Edison Electric Institute, has joined the company as Senior Advisor for Critical Infrastructure and Energy Sector Cybersecurity.

Aaronson previously led national cybersecurity and resilience strategy for the U.S. investor-owned electric sector and served as Secretary of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, the principal liaison between the U.S. electric sector and senior federal government officials on cybersecurity, emergency preparedness, and all-hazards response.

The appointment strengthens Qtonic Quantum's critical-infrastructure lane as post-quantum risk moves from abstract planning into operational decisions for grid operators, regulators, hardware security teams, and technology providers.

"The United States has concentrated its quantum-era cryptographic resilience on a single mathematical bet, with no physics-based fallback, and bulk power control networks are precisely the Tier-1 infrastructure where the cost of being wrong cannot be recovered through patching or migration after the fact. In a deteriorating cyber threat environment, deferral is not neutral. Every month of delay is a month in which adversarial capability matures and the gap between what attackers can do and what defenders can govern grows wider. Closing that gap in the electric sector requires people who can translate national cyber policy into the operational language of utility leadership. Scott Aaronson has spent his career doing exactly that."

"The electric sector has always been a target. What has changed is the time horizon on cryptographic risk."