Arqit SKA Platform Partner Validated

SKA-Platform protects data against both current cyber threats and the coming quantum threat. The most pressing risk is "harvest-now, decrypt-later," where adversaries harvest encrypted traffic today and wait for quantum capability to break it — which leaves long-lived data such as trade secrets, health records and national security information exposed right now. At the same time, networks are expanding across SD-WAN, 5G and edge environments, multiplying endpoints beyond the traditional perimeter, while sovereignty and PQC migration deadlines tighten across the UK, EU and US. SKA-Platform addresses all three pressures by generating quantum-safe symmetric encryption keys on demand at the endpoints that need them.

Rather than relying solely on public-key cryptography, SKA-Platform dynamically generates symmetric encryption keys directly between endpoints. Each device is provisioned with a registration key (delivered manually or over the air using post-quantum algorithms including NIST-standardised ML-KEM), which provides mutual authentication and is rotated on every successful authentication for perfect forward secrecy. The key agreement protocol then brokers shared symmetric keys between devices using standards-compliant cryptography, optionally layering in ML-KEM. This defence-in-depth, hybrid approach protects long-lived data today while giving you crypto-agility to switch algorithms as PQC standards evolve.

No. SKA-Platform is a lightweight overlay designed to work with what you already have. It hardens VPNs and critical links with on-demand encryption keys layered with standards-aligned cryptography, with no rip-and-replace, working with major OEMs and open interfaces. It integrates with applications and networking protocols through well-known standards and is light enough on resources to suit constrained and edge devices. This makes it especially valuable where infrastructure is hard to reach, has restrictive access controls, or otherwise depends on manual key management such as static pre-shared keys.

Yes. SKA-Platform is built for sectors with the highest assurance demands — telecoms, defence, and government and critical national infrastructure — and is aligned to recognised standards and compliance frameworks, including FIPS 140-3 validation, ML-KEM (FIPS 203), CNSA 2.0 cryptography, and NIST CSfC symmetric key requirements for Commercial Solutions for Classified architectures. It supports zero-trust deployments with continuous device authentication, granular policy control, and high-frequency key rotation, and can be deployed from network core to tactical edge regardless of size, weight and power constraints.