Concurrent Technologies Corporation Expands Cybersecurity Capabilities with Quantum Knight Partnership to Defend Critical Infrastructure from Quantum-Era Threats
Publish Date: 2026-05-19 05:45:00
Source Domain: www.businesswire.com
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), an independent, nonprofit, applied scientific research and development organization supporting U.S. government and critical infrastructure missions, has partnered with Quantum Knight Inc., a U.S.-based advanced cybersecurity technology developer delivering post-quantum cryptography and software-based data protection solutions for government and critical infrastructure. This partnership will help accelerate deployment of post-quantum cybersecurity protections across federal, defense, and industrial systems.
“Post-quantum cybersecurity is no longer theoretical. Adversaries are already targeting infrastructure that was never designed for modern cyber warfare,” said Edward J. Sheehan Jr., President and CEO of CTC.
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The partnership enables CTC to support certification, integration, and deployment of Quantum Knight’s CLEAR™ cryptosystem software, a lightweight, software-based encryption platform designed to secure sensitive data and communications against emerging threats from nation-state adversaries, artificial intelligence, and future quantum computing capabilities, while identifying the environments where it can be applied most effectively.
As quantum computing advances, many widely used encryption methods are expected to become vulnerable, placing power grids, water systems, transportation networks, medical technology, and industrial control systems at increased risk. CLEAR (Computational Layer for Encrypted Access Restriction) is built to meet NIST post-quantum cryptography requirements while providing immediate protection for operational environments that cannot tolerate downtime or hardware replacement.
At the core of CLEAR is Quantum Knight’s patented HyperKey™ technology, a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module that runs entirely in software. Unlike traditional security architectures that rely on external authentication servers, hardware modules, or…
