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FOUNDATIONS FOR A TRUSTED DIGITAL WORLD Crypto4A is a cybersecurity company developing quantum ready cybersecurity foundations for a trusted digital world. Since 2017, the company has worked on developing innovative technology that addresses the cybersecurity challenges of today while preparing for the future. Crypto4A wants to provide companies with solutions to secure themselves in a growing digital world.
Bringing Together Cybersecurity Experts
The QxEDGETM: Reimagining the HSM as a Platform
Crypto4A was created by Ottawa cybersecurity veterans Bruno Couillard, Jean-Pierre Fiset, Brad Ritchie, and Jim Goodman. They met while working on the design of the first and second generation of Hardware Security Modules (HSM), an appliance that underpins the security of today’s internet. Through their careers they maintained a friendship, working together at different points. Crypto4A formed from many hours of brainstorming on the current and future state of cybersecurity in a hyper connected world, and in 2017 Crypto4A began development with four founders and two employees.
Crypto4A’s flagship product, The QxEDGETM, is an innovative hyper converged cybersecurity platform based on the idea of an HSM as a platform. At the heart of the QxEDGETM is Crypto4A’s next generation Quantum Assured Security Module (QASM) which delivers cryptographic agility and adaptability while ensuring quantum computing readiness. The QxEDGETM has been developed to be simple, scalable, and sustainable.
Quantum Ready Quantum computers will have the ability to factor prime numbers, breaking the cryptography today’s digital world is built on. Although it is unknown when quantum computing will be advanced enough to do this, it is predicted to be in the next decade. Cybersecurity is a major investment 224