Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has made a strategic investment, through
Accenture Ventures, in QuSecure ™ a leader in post-quantum
cybersecurity. Together, Accenture and QuSecure offer comprehensive
post-quantum crypto agility solutions to help government agencies
and private sector businesses mitigate emerging quantum risks.
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Accenture and QuSecure Offer Post-Quantum
Crypto Agility Solutions to Help Mitigate Emerging Quantum Risks
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Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., QuSecure is a privately held
company founded in 2019. QuSecure’s QuProtect software offers an
end-to-end quantum security-as-a-service architecture that combines
zero-trust, next-generation quantum-resilient technology and crypto
agility to protect networks, cloud systems, edge devices and
satellite communications against today’s cyberattacks and future
quantum threats, all with minimal disruption to existing
systems.
“Organizations need a reliable, quantum-resilient cybersecurity
solution that not only adheres to the National Institute of
Standards and Technology’s (NIST) post-quantum encryption standards
but that can be easily integrated across all parts of a
communications network,” said Tom Patterson, emerging technology
security lead at Accenture. “We’re investing in trusted providers
like QuSecure to help our clients future-proof their global
networks today to protect high-risk data faster.”
Post-quantum encryption standards protect a variety of
electronic information, such as private email messages and
e-commerce transactions. NIST is advising computer system
administrators to start transitioning to NIST’s newly released
standards as quickly as possible. According to the Financial
Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), the
shift to crypto agility must start immediately and is a long-term
strategy rather than a one-time implementation.
“In a progressively digital world, as AI and quantum threats to
encryption evolve at an ever-faster pace, it is critical that we
evolve from encryption management that requires several years to
upgrade algorithms to orchestrated crypto agility—the ability to
push a button and upgrade your entire system at once,” said Rebecca
Krauthamer, co-founder and CEO of QuSecure. “The ability to
orchestrate cryptography at the enterprise scale—swapping out
cryptographic algorithms at any endpoint, anywhere—is critical to a
robust cybersecurity strategy. QuSecure and Accenture have a shared
vision to provide organizations with a long-term solution to
upgrade and manage their encryption standards.”
In 2023, Accenture and QuSecure collaborated to establish the
first successful multi-orbit data communications test secured with
post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which refers to cryptographic
methods that are secure against an attack by a quantum computer.
This demonstrates that crypto agility, successfully rotating to a
less vulnerable algorithm, is real and possible.
Recently, Banco Sabadell successfully completed a joint project
with Accenture and QuSecure to explore the adoption of PQC
technologies in the bank’s infrastructure. This project represents
a significant step toward strengthening defenses against quantum
attacks with Banco Sabadell employing QuSecure’s software for
crypto agility to update encryption.
"Crypto agility is critical for the banking industry, allowing
for the seamless integration of new cryptographic standards without
the need to rebuild entire systems,” said Joan Puig, Group CISO of
Banco Sabadell. “Our project, in collaboration with Accenture and
QuSecure, enabled us to explore the impact of adopting post-quantum
cryptography technologies on the bank's infrastructure. By
embracing crypto agility and testing quantum technologies we’re
ensuring our preparedness for the quantum future.”
To help maintain security in a post-quantum world, Accenture
developed an eight-step roadmap to help clients secure their data
and communications and is collaborating with companies like
QuSecure. Working with other industry leaders, Accenture has
designed a Quantum Security Maturity Index to give corporate boards
and executives a way to measure their quantum security
infrastructure against their peers and identify areas for
improvement.
QuSecure will also join Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight,
an engagement and investment program focused on working with
companies that create or apply disruptive enterprise technologies.
Project Spotlight offers extensive access to Accenture’s domain
expertise and its enterprise clients, helping startups harness
creativity and deliver on the promise of their technology.
Additional cybersecurity, quantum security and space companies that
have joined Project Spotlight include Reality Defender, Aliro
Quantum and Tenchi Security.
For information on how Accenture is helping clients prepare
today for post-quantum security visit us here: Quantum Security
Services & Solutions | Accenture.
Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
About Accenture
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accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating
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Accenture Security is a leading provider of end-to-end
cybersecurity services, including strategy, protection, resilience
and industry-specific cyber services. We bring security innovation,
coupled with global scale and a worldwide delivery capability
through our network of Cyber Fusion Centers. Helped by our team of
25,000+ highly skilled professionals, we enable clients to innovate
safely, build cyber resilience and grow with confidence. Visit us
at accenture.com/security.
About QuSecure
QuSecure is a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity with a
mission to use the advent of quantum computing to act as a catalyst
to fix the foundation of data security infrastructure. The
company’s QuProtect software platform solution, available now,
offers a comprehensive, end-to-end quantum-security-as-a-service
architecture that delivers zero-trust, next-generation
quantum-resilient technology, and crypto agility to protect
networks, cloud systems, edge devices, end user, and satellite
communications against today’s cyberattacks and future quantum
threats, all with no rip and replace or disruption to existing
systems. QuSecure is a proud Accenture Project Spotlight Company,
and SBIR Phase III recipient. Book a Free PQC Ideation Workshop
with us to get started on your PQC Migration and to take our
QuProtect Software for a test drive. For more information, visit
www.qusecure.com.
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Alison Geib Accenture +1 703 947 4404
alison.geib@accenture.com
Denise Berard Accenture +1 617 488 3611
denise.berard@accenture.com
Dan Spalding QuSecure +1 408 960 9297 dspalding@qusecure.com
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