QUANTUM IS A REALITY

Data Security is Compromised
We Can Help

The Problem

Imagine a world in which digital certificates can be forged, secure access to websites is impossible and all
your encrypted communications can be read by governments and commercial competitors.

Now 5 Years
10 Years
15 Years
Consumer data lifespan
Health records
Banking records
Digital passports & ID cards
Social media data
Corporate data lifespan
Trade secret & intellectual property
IT infrastructure
Financial & tax records
Contract terms
Prediction of quantum reality

The Quantum world is nearly upon us and it will cause massive, irreversible damage to our information society.

Predictions for when this becomes a reality range from 5 to 15 years, but businesses cannot sit back and wait for solutions… as their secrets and security infrastructure persist for much longer than this.

We need to act now.

Find out more

Our Mission

PQShield is assembling a crack team of cryptographers to solve the world’s most pressing cryptographic challenge: Quantum Computers will break our cybersecurity infrastructure.

As an active participant in NIST’s standardization process, PQShield will produce real-world, high performance implementations of the most effective post-quantum algorithms.

We will shield your data from the attacks made possible by quantum computers.

Management & Specialised Advisory Team

Dr Ali El Kaafarani

Founder & CEO
Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Follow on:

Andre Crawford-Brunt

Chairman
BCom, Commercial Law. Former Managing Director of Deutsche Bank. Former Global Head of Equity Trading at Deutsche Bank
Follow on:

Prof Liqun Chen

Advisor
Professor in Secure Systems, Surrey University, UK
Follow on:

Prof Cas Cremers

Advisor
Professor at the CISPA Helmholtz Center (i.G.) in Saarbruecken, Germany
Follow on:

Prof Artur Ekert

Advisor
Professor of Quantum Physics and Cryptography (Oxford), and CQT's founding Director (Singapore)
Follow on:

Prof Chris Peikert

Advisor
Professor of Cryptography at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA
Follow on:

Dr Peter Schwabe

Advisor
Professor of Computer Security at Radboud University, The Netherlands
Follow on:

Stay Tuned to What Our Cryptographers and Security Experts Have to Say in Our Blog.

Interested?

Register

First step for us to evaluate your infrastructure and develop an integration plan.
Get Started

Join Us

See yourself as missing from this team?
Let us know about you.
Join Us

Latest News

PQShield - the story so far...

In June 2015, I moved from Hewlett-Packard Labs to the Mathematical Institute to start a Post-Quantum Cryptography project. Shortly after, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made their game-changing announcement stating they ar...
Read More

Our Blog

You can't have a team like ours and not have insight to share.

Other News