Collaboration between two Danish companies aims to address national security in the global quantum race.

Collaboration between two Danish companies aims to address national security in the global quantum race.

By Sofie Krabbe,

Quantum Computing, MPC, Confidential Computing

Unfortunately, global tensions are evermore present and reliable information is inevitably a crucial part of the growing number of security conflicts.

Producing and securing complex insights for both military and civil purposes is paramount to address these conflicts.

Partisia is entering a collaboration with Kvantify to address the maturing and securing of quantum technologies at a global scale. Both companies are based in Denmark and spinouts from University of Aarhus, which is one very best universities in the world for research in Cryptography. 

Partisia brings advanced information security and expertise to protect data and make it available with full confidentiality. Kvantify specializes in using quantum computers for solving the toughest computational challenges.

Specialized software designed for utilizing quantum computers and the secure handling of highly sensitive data plays a pivotal role in strengthening the defense alliance. Their goal is to contribute to national security in the global quantum race. 


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Securing confidential information for the quantum age

Getting a quantum computer to solve hard problems is one thing - ensuring it is done in a secured and protected way is another and equally important challenge.

At Partisia, some of the world’s leading researchers are spending their everyday developing advanced cryptographic protocols for securing and sharing sensitive data, like Multiparty Computation. This technology combined with a decade of knowledge and expertise has made the development of a quantum secure platform for confidential data sharing and secure use of quantum computing possible. 

At the moment the only quantum computers that exist in the world are commercial - understood in the sense that you "rent" them through large, global companies. This means that there is a security challenge regarding the secrecy of classified information, and this is where Partisia comes into the picture.


Capacitated vehicle routing problem

The quantum race, characterized by the pursuit of developing a sufficiently large and functional quantum computer along with its associated software, holds significant implications for future security conflicts. 

This race is not only fundamental for future national security but it is also crucial for maintaining dominance within the global defense alliance. 

Together with Kvantify, Partisia aims to develop a secure way to exchange and protect super-sensitive information, making it impossible for outsiders to eavesdrop or misuse information.

- It is paramount for us to ensure that Partisia’s technology is the enabler for securing and sharing confidential and sensitive information in the quantum age. This guarantees that information, which needs to be confidential, stays confidential. Combined with Partisia’s confidential computing, secure use of quantum computing is a reality. Therefore we have a co-responsibility to make our technology available to everyone’s safety.
Mark Medum Bundgaard Chief Product Officer, Partisia

With sensitive information now secure and available for computation, logistical informational challenges such as the capacitated vehicle routing problem, is now possible to optimize using quantum computing.

- Looking around, we can see that we are among the very best in the entire world at solving optimization problems and at designing algorithms that can run on a quantum computer. Therefore, at Kvantify, we are used to solving otherwise "unsolvable" problems, so of course we must contribute to our common security.
Hans Henrik Knudsen co-founder and CEO of Kvantify

As a consequence the quantum race emerges as a top priority due to its potentially revolutionizing problem-solving capabilities in a way we have previously considered unreachable. 

Developing the ecosystem within cyber security

The collaboration is also supported by Jacob Bundsgaard, the mayor of Aarhus. 

Almost a year ago the city council, with him in front, created the so-called ‘Security Tech Space’, which is a supplement to the existing Center for Cyber ​​Security under the danish military force. 

Security Tech Space is headquartered in the IT city of Katrinebjerg, and it is under this roof the two companies have found each other.

- It makes me proud that we have highly specialized tech companies in Aarhus that can be in the international top class within quantum and security technology. The collaboration across companies in a highly specialized environment is exactly one of the things that we wanted to promote when we built the IT city Katrinebjerg - and something that we would like to build on top of with the Security Tech Space venture, which specifically focuses on developing the ecosystem within cyber security.
Jacob Bundsgaard Mayor of Aarhus, Denmark

Get in touch with the experts

Kurt Nielsen

Kurt Nielsen

CEO, Partisia

kn@partisia.com
Mark Medum

Mark Medum

Chief Product Officer, Partisia

mmb@partisia.com