{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"140709","rtpr_id":"nGNX2Qp82B-20260910","ticker":"ARQQ","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["ARQQ","IONQ","LAES","PANW","8OE","QSE"],"title":"The Quantum Deadline Moved Up. Most Firms Cannot Find Their Own Keys.","author":"Globe Newswire","published_at":"2026-09-10T14:28:27.143Z","article_body":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada News\nGroup\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=7D0xDIq9detW1WHEWDI2ZzDU_NkYOjN8HOxQo3y3Ptk0jZWpfTL54yXHDYbtwLo9jXbXZn02JFVwU9RjcGHGDQw7U5MZ19O2E3iQRFrMaLgYY3YQvPa1hY1GQw6YV_0c)\nNews Commentary - Two things happened to post-quantum security in 2026, and\ntogether they turned a long-dated science problem into a procurement problem.\nThe threat timeline moved closer, and compliance stopped being voluntary. In\nJune, Executive Order 14412 mandated an accelerated, government-wide migration\nto post-quantum cryptography for United States federal systems, established\nbinding deadlines for high-value assets, and directed the Federal Acquisition\nRegulatory Council to require contractor compliance with NIST’s post-quantum\nstandards. A cryptographic upgrade became a condition of doing business with\nthe government.\n\nActive Companies from around the markets with current developments this week\ninclude: Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE:\nVN80), Arqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ), SEALSQ Corp. (Nasdaq: LAES), IonQ,\nInc. (NYSE: IONQ), and Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: PANW).\n\nThe timeline shift is the part the market has been slower to price. In its\nmost recent shareholder communication filed with the Securities and Exchange\nCommission\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=EGZZ3RVdsyRkOieVZwHvvSqHeDusiIc-mRSFSqbi5el4IQJJG1MZ_raZgRa33M-M-mffJxdpgzjt5hTx-TZQ1U5t8D937YAeoM1kXnxZipBx110nLF8qD-zs-EZtQkc6HxyNSEx3VpJ-_upvf1t-OQHpGDvrYQjMcXer7AGQWJEpCUSwLH98T5GODd-ToH5FYl7tFcDNgxpJGcV1BzkEh1MaLRrlhYpK_iW6MlhUL8ONvWGbS_wo996Kdczva0W_O3L-YU1SitZP-MC6rWuiBw==),\nArqit Quantum’s Chief Executive Officer Andy Leaver observed that leading\ncommercial players including Google, IBM and Cloudflare have accelerated their\npost-quantum migration timetables to 2029, and noted that even that horizon\nmay be too distant because IonQ has accelerated its roadmap for a quantum\ncomputer with a logical qubit count sufficient to challenge RSA 2048 into the\n2028 to 2029 window.\n\nRSA 2048 is not an obscure standard. It is a workhorse of internet trust, used\nacross banking, certificates, secure messaging and government systems. A\ncredible date attached to breaking it converts an abstract risk into a project\nplan with a deadline, and 2028 is not a comfortable distance away for\norganizations that measure infrastructure change in multi-year cycles.\n\nThe reason it is already urgent, rather than urgent in 2028, is a doctrine\nsecurity professionals call harvest now, decrypt later. Adversaries capture\nencrypted traffic and stored files today, unable to read them, and hold the\nmaterial until hardware catches up. Anything with a long secrecy life,\ndiplomatic cables, medical records, intellectual property, personal data, is\ntherefore exposed by a machine that does not yet exist. Encryption applied in\n2026 has to survive whatever arrives before the data stops mattering.\n\nThe standards themselves are settled. NIST finalized its first post-quantum\ncryptography standards in 2024, and its migration project documents the\ntransition guidance now driving federal and enterprise programmes. What is not\nsettled is execution, and the bottleneck sits in an unglamorous place. Before\nan organization can migrate cryptography, it has to find it: every\ncertificate, key, protocol, library and hardware dependency across an estate\nthat has usually accumulated over decades without a central register. Most\nenterprises cannot produce that inventory on request. See NIST’s migration\nto post-quantum cryptography project\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=ujoMhQjvwI7kN5UCv9ByToyEu3SatFNrrGwGbNe3upt_PKKhDZu7lZXT1w807zOT-5rSwR2ZvlvlrvBQFlqx8pe_9IE-hC2R37OVvAoU6CTnKem1vTksTUhpVrrlUPDPmiuYUU7DIYaiOuYatmDNjZXk5DhkdTMcdRqrMimhiR36D_pIdEEkKiZqhe5IHiMuUEGSLrrFEFkNpzTlWr-BnQ==)\nfor the transition framework.\n\nThat gap is where the first commercial revenue in this sector actually sits.\nMigration is a multi-year programme that most organizations have not started.\nDiscovery and assessment is a defined, scoped engagement that can begin\nimmediately, produces a deliverable, and is a prerequisite for everything that\nfollows. Companies selling the inventory are addressing a market that exists\nin the current budget cycle rather than a future one.\n\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN80) Signs\nDistribution Agreement with Nextwave to Expand Post-Quantum Cybersecurity\nReach in Thailand\n* QSE has signed a distribution agreement with Nextwave (Thailand) Co., Ltd.\nto bring its quantum-readiness assessment and discovery platform to\norganizations across Thailand.\n\n\n* The agreement provides an established route to market through Nextwave’s\nnetwork of more than 50 cybersecurity-focused channel partners.\n\n\n* Nextwave works with internationally recognized cybersecurity vendors and\nserves enterprise, government and regulated-industry customers across\nThailand.\n\n\n* The two companies intend to develop offerings tailored to the Thai market,\nundertake customer engagements and support channel partner enablement.\n\n\n* The agreement is described by the Company as another step in its\ninternational growth strategy across the Asia-Pacific region.\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp.\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=UiRfGIIkZwPThiF3zd8-zWICUejU_gKM1Xv8eraE3OlmL0SyEXixIpOiz9QoUNZ7FSnqj7j8CmynJa7EToJqWPdN4rW6Uvo54FGmun1Wtnim5pPAQiVA9Y7AWCvQFC2B991d8RQCNU5FmBnWWR573w==)\n(CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN80) announced on September 10, 2026 that it\nhas signed a distribution agreement with Nextwave (Thailand) Co., Ltd. to\nbring its quantum-readiness assessment and discovery platform to organizations\nacross Thailand. QSE is a Canadian post-quantum cybersecurity company focused\non quantum-resilient data protection, identity security, secure storage and\ncryptographic migration readiness.\n\nThe structure of the agreement is the part worth examining, because it says\nsomething about how a small company intends to reach a market that is\nfragmented by geography and sold through relationships. Rather than building a\ndirect sales presence in Thailand, QSE gains access through Nextwave’s\nnetwork of more than 50 cybersecurity-focused channel partners. Nextwave\ndistributes for internationally recognized cybersecurity vendors including,\nper its own description, Infoblox, Digicert and Fortanix, and serves\nenterprise, government and regulated-industry customers across the country.\n\n\"Our strategy is to scale through established cybersecurity partners that\nalready understand the needs of complex organizations,\" said Ted Carefoot,\nChief Executive Officer of QSE. \"Nextwave brings the local relationships and\nchannel reach needed to introduce QSE’s technology across Thailand. This\nagreement strengthens our commercial position in the market and supports our\nbroader expansion across the Asia-Pacific region.\"\n\nThe product being distributed is aimed squarely at the discovery bottleneck\ndescribed above. QSE’s platform assesses cryptographic environments,\nprioritizes risk and helps customers develop practical post-quantum migration\nroadmaps. As the Company frames it, organizations must first identify where\ncryptography is used, understand their exposure and determine which systems\nshould be addressed first. That is a diagnostic engagement rather than a\nrip-and-replace project, which makes it saleable to an organization that has\nnot yet committed to a migration budget.\n\nThailand is a reasonable place to test that proposition. The country has\nincreasingly focused on assessing cryptographic risk, developing post-quantum\ncryptography roadmaps and establishing plans to improve long-term cyber\nresilience, and organizations there are recognizing the need to gain\nvisibility into existing cryptographic assets and dependencies as a first\nstep. Through the partnership, Nextwave and QSE intend to provide Thai\ngovernment agencies, enterprises and regulated organizations with locally\nsupported capabilities to assess their environments, alongside access to\ncybersecurity advisors and channel partners capable of supporting discovery,\nassessment and roadmap development.\n\nQSE describes itself as a Canadian technology company specializing in\npost-quantum data security, encryption and secure data infrastructure, built\naround quantum-delivered entropy and zero-knowledge architecture, serving\ncommercial, enterprise and public-sector environments requiring long-term data\nconfidentiality. Company filings are available under its profile on SEDAR+\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=AdNgerU74BaAkdJ-HOonK3sLTZ7VcrRZxge9yrSj1WOPNy_55M54csERxxbFdfOfKZxWLIPW8CZv5jRojMGPLg==).\n\nThere are several risks associated with the Company’s plans. A distribution\nagreement is a route to market, not revenue. No financial terms, minimum\ncommitments, order volumes or revenue expectations were disclosed, and there\nis no assurance that the agreement will generate sales, that any channel\npartner will transact, or that the relationship will continue. QSE is a\nsmall-capitalization company whose securities trade on the Canadian Securities\nExchange and the OTCQB marketplace, where trading may be thin and volatile.\nThe post-quantum security market remains early, adoption timelines are set by\ncustomers and regulators rather than by vendors, and the Company competes\nagainst substantially larger and better capitalised cybersecurity and\ntechnology companies, several of which are named in this article. Development\nand commercialization are capital intensive and may require financing that has\nnot been secured, which could dilute existing holders. Statements regarding\nregulatory deadlines and quantum computing capability timelines are\nthird-party projections that may not be realised.\n\nCONTINUED... Read this and more news for Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE:\nQSE) at: https://canadanewsgroup.com\n\nIn other industry developments and happenings in the market this week include:\n\nArqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ) is the closest listed pure-play comparison\nand the clearest illustration of both the opportunity and the scale of the\nchallenge. The London-based company develops symmetric key agreement\ntechnology for quantum-safe encryption, including a cloud-based platform for\nquantum-secure key exchange, serving telecommunications, government and\ndefence customers.\n\nIt has also moved into the same discovery layer QSE occupies, launching an\nEncryption Intelligence capability to automate cryptographic discovery and\nmigration planning, with its Chief Security Officer making the point that\norganizations cannot manage or secure cryptographic assets they cannot see.\nThat convergence is telling: two companies approaching the market from\ndifferent technical directions have arrived at the same conclusion about where\nthe first sale is.\n\nThe sobering part is the revenue. Arqit reported fiscal 2025 revenue of\nroughly US$535,000 and executed contracts generating approximately US$1.2\nmillion in fiscal 2026. Those are small numbers against a threat described in\nnational security terms, and they capture the central tension in this sector:\nthe problem is enormous, the deadlines are real, and the commercial market is\nstill in its earliest innings.\n\nSEALSQ Corp. (Nasdaq: LAES) attacks the problem in hardware rather than\nsoftware, developing post-quantum semiconductors and secure elements. In\nSeptember 2026 it integrated wolfSSL’s wolfTPM software support into its\nQVault TPM, a post-quantum silicon platform, providing an open-source software\nlayer for executing hardware-isolated post-quantum cryptography operations\nacross embedded systems.\n\nThe hardware angle matters because a large share of the world’s cryptography\ndoes not live in software that can be patched. It lives in chips, secure\nelements and devices with service lives measured in decades, deployed in\nvehicles, industrial systems, payment terminals and infrastructure. Those\ncannot be migrated by a software update, which is both a constraint on the\ntransition and a reason the discovery step is harder than it sounds.\n\nIonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) appears in this article for the opposite reason to the\nothers. It is building the machine. The company has accelerated its roadmap\ntoward a quantum computer with a logical qubit count sufficient to challenge\nRSA 2048 into the 2028 to 2029 window, a target cited by Arqit’s chief\nexecutive as evidence that the migration horizon may be shorter than the\nmarket assumes.\n\nIonQ also acquired ID Quantique, a pioneer in commercial quantum key\ndistribution systems and quantum random number generators, which places it on\nboth sides of the equation. For investors reading this sector, IonQ is the\nclock. Every announcement that pulls capable hardware closer compresses the\nwindow available to everyone selling protection against it, which is unusual:\nin most markets the threat and the remedy are not disclosed on the same public\ntimeline.\n\nPalo Alto Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: PANW) represents the competitive reality\nthat every small vendor in this space eventually meets. It is one of the\nlargest cybersecurity platform companies in the world, selling network\nsecurity, cloud security and security operations to the same enterprise and\ngovernment buyers that post-quantum specialists are targeting, through\nrelationships and procurement vehicles that are already in place.\n\nThe strategic question for a company of QSE’s size is therefore not whether\nit can build a better assessment tool. It is whether it can reach buyers\nbefore the platform vendors fold equivalent capability into products those\nbuyers already own. That is the logic behind distributing through established\nchannel partners rather than building direct sales, and it is the right\nresponse to the competitive structure, though it does not remove the risk.\n\nContact Information:\nhttps://canadanewsgroup.com\n\nMedia Contact:\ninfo@canadanewsgroup.com\n\nDISCLAIMER:\n\nNothing in this publication should be considered personalized financial\nadvice. We are not licensed under securities laws to address your particular\nfinancial situation, and no communication from us should be deemed\npersonalized financial advice. Please consult a licensed financial advisor\nbefore making any investment decision. This publication is neither an offer\nnor a recommendation to buy or sell any security. We hold no investment\nlicenses and are neither licensed nor qualified to provide investment advice.\nThe material in this article is intended to be strictly informational and is\nnever to be construed or interpreted as research material. All readers are\nstrongly urged to perform their own research and due diligence and to consult\na licensed financial professional before considering any level of investing in\nstocks.\n\nThis article is being distributed by Canada News Group, which is wholly owned\nand operated by Market Equities Limited (\"MEL\"), a company incorporated under\nthe laws of Ireland. MEL was previously paid a fee directly by Quantum Secure\nEncryption Corp. for advertising and digital media services under an agreement\nthat has since expired. MEL has not been paid a fee for this article, which\nwas prepared and published independently. Because of that prior compensation\nand the share ownership described below, MEL and its owners, operators,\ndirectors, and affiliates have a financial interest in the securities of\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp., which constitutes a conflict of interest as\nto our ability to remain objective in our communication regarding the profiled\ncompany. Because of this conflict, individuals are strongly encouraged not to\nuse this publication as the basis for any investment decision.\n\nMEL and its owners, operators, directors, and affiliates own shares of Quantum\nSecure Encryption Corp., acquired both through private placement and through\nthe open market, and reserve the right to buy and sell shares of Quantum\nSecure Encryption Corp. at any time without any further notice commencing\nimmediately and ongoing, in the open market, through private placements,\nand/or through other investment vehicles. There may also be third parties who\nhold shares of Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. and may liquidate their shares,\nwhich could have a negative effect on the price of the stock.\n\nWhile all information is believed to be reliable, it is not guaranteed by us\nto be accurate. Individuals should assume that all information contained in\nthis publication is not trustworthy unless verified by their own independent\nresearch. 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Descriptions of the Company’s\nplatform, its capabilities, the number and nature of Nextwave’s channel\npartners, and the intentions of the parties are as disclosed by the Company\nand have not been independently verified by the publisher. References to Thai\ngovernment and enterprise interest in post-quantum readiness describe general\nmarket conditions and do not represent commitments by any customer. Statements\nregarding NIST standards, Executive Order 14412, federal deadlines and quantum\ncomputing capability timelines describe policy conditions and third-party\nprojections; such projections may not be realised, timelines may move in\neither direction, and none of them constitutes an assurance of demand for any\ncompany’s products. The Canadian Securities Exchange has in no way passed\nupon the merits of the business of the Company and has neither approved nor\ndisapproved the contents of the Company’s news release.\n\nCautionary Note Regarding Referenced Companies. References to Arqit Quantum\nInc., SEALSQ Corp., IonQ, Inc. and Palo Alto Networks, Inc. are provided\nsolely as market and sector context. Those companies are not peers,\ncompetitors, or financial comparables of Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. in\nany investment sense. They are at materially different stages of development,\nscale and capitalisation, they pursue different technical approaches, and in\nthe case of IonQ, Inc. the company is developing quantum computing hardware\nrather than post-quantum security products. Their revenues, contracts, product\nroadmaps, technical milestones and share performance are not indicative of\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp.’s prospects. None of those companies is\ninvolved in the production or distribution of this article, and no\npartnership, affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement is implied. References\nto Nextwave (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and to vendors it distributes for, and to\nGoogle, IBM, Cloudflare, wolfSSL, ID Quantique and NIST, describe third\nparties, standards bodies or reported facts and do not imply any endorsement\nof the profiled company or its securities by any of them.\n\nEagle Eye Disclosure. Eagle Eye is an investor signal-intelligence platform\naffiliated with the publisher of this article, and this reference constitutes\npromotion of an affiliated product. Eagle Eye is not a broker-dealer, and\nnothing in the platform or in this article is financial, investment, tax, or\nlegal advice. Data provided in the platform is for informational purposes only\nand may be delayed. Always do your own research before making any investment\ndecision. See it at eagle-eye.dev.\n\nCautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements. 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Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and are\nbased on assumptions and analyses made in light of experience and perception\nof historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments,\nincluding those risks and assumptions described in the Company’s latest\nmanagement discussion and analysis, a copy of which is available under the\nCompany’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Readers are cautioned not\nto place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as\nof the date of this publication. Risks include, without limitation, general\neconomic conditions, continued satisfaction of Canadian Securities Exchange\nrequirements, competition, regulatory compliance, the pace of customer\nadoption, and risks associated with the Company’s business. Canada News\nGroup undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements in\nthis publication.\n\nSOURCE Canada News Group\n\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/8706309d-9878-47a1-b292-8cc7e952fd84)\n\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nGNX2Qp82B-20260910","title":"The Quantum Deadline Moved Up. Most Firms Cannot Find Their Own Keys.","author":"Globe Newswire","ticker":"ARQQ","created":"2026-09-10T14:28:27.143Z","tickers":["ARQQ","IONQ","LAES","PANW","8OE","QSE"],"exchange":"NASDAQ","article_body":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canada News\nGroup\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=7D0xDIq9detW1WHEWDI2ZzDU_NkYOjN8HOxQo3y3Ptk0jZWpfTL54yXHDYbtwLo9jXbXZn02JFVwU9RjcGHGDQw7U5MZ19O2E3iQRFrMaLgYY3YQvPa1hY1GQw6YV_0c)\nNews Commentary - Two things happened to post-quantum security in 2026, and\ntogether they turned a long-dated science problem into a procurement problem.\nThe threat timeline moved closer, and compliance stopped being voluntary. In\nJune, Executive Order 14412 mandated an accelerated, government-wide migration\nto post-quantum cryptography for United States federal systems, established\nbinding deadlines for high-value assets, and directed the Federal Acquisition\nRegulatory Council to require contractor compliance with NIST’s post-quantum\nstandards. A cryptographic upgrade became a condition of doing business with\nthe government.\n\nActive Companies from around the markets with current developments this week\ninclude: Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE:\nVN80), Arqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ), SEALSQ Corp. (Nasdaq: LAES), IonQ,\nInc. (NYSE: IONQ), and Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: PANW).\n\nThe timeline shift is the part the market has been slower to price. In its\nmost recent shareholder communication filed with the Securities and Exchange\nCommission\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=EGZZ3RVdsyRkOieVZwHvvSqHeDusiIc-mRSFSqbi5el4IQJJG1MZ_raZgRa33M-M-mffJxdpgzjt5hTx-TZQ1U5t8D937YAeoM1kXnxZipBx110nLF8qD-zs-EZtQkc6HxyNSEx3VpJ-_upvf1t-OQHpGDvrYQjMcXer7AGQWJEpCUSwLH98T5GODd-ToH5FYl7tFcDNgxpJGcV1BzkEh1MaLRrlhYpK_iW6MlhUL8ONvWGbS_wo996Kdczva0W_O3L-YU1SitZP-MC6rWuiBw==),\nArqit Quantum’s Chief Executive Officer Andy Leaver observed that leading\ncommercial players including Google, IBM and Cloudflare have accelerated their\npost-quantum migration timetables to 2029, and noted that even that horizon\nmay be too distant because IonQ has accelerated its roadmap for a quantum\ncomputer with a logical qubit count sufficient to challenge RSA 2048 into the\n2028 to 2029 window.\n\nRSA 2048 is not an obscure standard. It is a workhorse of internet trust, used\nacross banking, certificates, secure messaging and government systems. A\ncredible date attached to breaking it converts an abstract risk into a project\nplan with a deadline, and 2028 is not a comfortable distance away for\norganizations that measure infrastructure change in multi-year cycles.\n\nThe reason it is already urgent, rather than urgent in 2028, is a doctrine\nsecurity professionals call harvest now, decrypt later. Adversaries capture\nencrypted traffic and stored files today, unable to read them, and hold the\nmaterial until hardware catches up. Anything with a long secrecy life,\ndiplomatic cables, medical records, intellectual property, personal data, is\ntherefore exposed by a machine that does not yet exist. Encryption applied in\n2026 has to survive whatever arrives before the data stops mattering.\n\nThe standards themselves are settled. NIST finalized its first post-quantum\ncryptography standards in 2024, and its migration project documents the\ntransition guidance now driving federal and enterprise programmes. What is not\nsettled is execution, and the bottleneck sits in an unglamorous place. Before\nan organization can migrate cryptography, it has to find it: every\ncertificate, key, protocol, library and hardware dependency across an estate\nthat has usually accumulated over decades without a central register. Most\nenterprises cannot produce that inventory on request. See NIST’s migration\nto post-quantum cryptography project\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=ujoMhQjvwI7kN5UCv9ByToyEu3SatFNrrGwGbNe3upt_PKKhDZu7lZXT1w807zOT-5rSwR2ZvlvlrvBQFlqx8pe_9IE-hC2R37OVvAoU6CTnKem1vTksTUhpVrrlUPDPmiuYUU7DIYaiOuYatmDNjZXk5DhkdTMcdRqrMimhiR36D_pIdEEkKiZqhe5IHiMuUEGSLrrFEFkNpzTlWr-BnQ==)\nfor the transition framework.\n\nThat gap is where the first commercial revenue in this sector actually sits.\nMigration is a multi-year programme that most organizations have not started.\nDiscovery and assessment is a defined, scoped engagement that can begin\nimmediately, produces a deliverable, and is a prerequisite for everything that\nfollows. Companies selling the inventory are addressing a market that exists\nin the current budget cycle rather than a future one.\n\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN80) Signs\nDistribution Agreement with Nextwave to Expand Post-Quantum Cybersecurity\nReach in Thailand\n* QSE has signed a distribution agreement with Nextwave (Thailand) Co., Ltd.\nto bring its quantum-readiness assessment and discovery platform to\norganizations across Thailand.\n\n\n* The agreement provides an established route to market through Nextwave’s\nnetwork of more than 50 cybersecurity-focused channel partners.\n\n\n* Nextwave works with internationally recognized cybersecurity vendors and\nserves enterprise, government and regulated-industry customers across\nThailand.\n\n\n* The two companies intend to develop offerings tailored to the Thai market,\nundertake customer engagements and support channel partner enablement.\n\n\n* The agreement is described by the Company as another step in its\ninternational growth strategy across the Asia-Pacific region.\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp.\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=UiRfGIIkZwPThiF3zd8-zWICUejU_gKM1Xv8eraE3OlmL0SyEXixIpOiz9QoUNZ7FSnqj7j8CmynJa7EToJqWPdN4rW6Uvo54FGmun1Wtnim5pPAQiVA9Y7AWCvQFC2B991d8RQCNU5FmBnWWR573w==)\n(CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN80) announced on September 10, 2026 that it\nhas signed a distribution agreement with Nextwave (Thailand) Co., Ltd. to\nbring its quantum-readiness assessment and discovery platform to organizations\nacross Thailand. QSE is a Canadian post-quantum cybersecurity company focused\non quantum-resilient data protection, identity security, secure storage and\ncryptographic migration readiness.\n\nThe structure of the agreement is the part worth examining, because it says\nsomething about how a small company intends to reach a market that is\nfragmented by geography and sold through relationships. Rather than building a\ndirect sales presence in Thailand, QSE gains access through Nextwave’s\nnetwork of more than 50 cybersecurity-focused channel partners. Nextwave\ndistributes for internationally recognized cybersecurity vendors including,\nper its own description, Infoblox, Digicert and Fortanix, and serves\nenterprise, government and regulated-industry customers across the country.\n\n\"Our strategy is to scale through established cybersecurity partners that\nalready understand the needs of complex organizations,\" said Ted Carefoot,\nChief Executive Officer of QSE. \"Nextwave brings the local relationships and\nchannel reach needed to introduce QSE’s technology across Thailand. This\nagreement strengthens our commercial position in the market and supports our\nbroader expansion across the Asia-Pacific region.\"\n\nThe product being distributed is aimed squarely at the discovery bottleneck\ndescribed above. QSE’s platform assesses cryptographic environments,\nprioritizes risk and helps customers develop practical post-quantum migration\nroadmaps. As the Company frames it, organizations must first identify where\ncryptography is used, understand their exposure and determine which systems\nshould be addressed first. That is a diagnostic engagement rather than a\nrip-and-replace project, which makes it saleable to an organization that has\nnot yet committed to a migration budget.\n\nThailand is a reasonable place to test that proposition. The country has\nincreasingly focused on assessing cryptographic risk, developing post-quantum\ncryptography roadmaps and establishing plans to improve long-term cyber\nresilience, and organizations there are recognizing the need to gain\nvisibility into existing cryptographic assets and dependencies as a first\nstep. Through the partnership, Nextwave and QSE intend to provide Thai\ngovernment agencies, enterprises and regulated organizations with locally\nsupported capabilities to assess their environments, alongside access to\ncybersecurity advisors and channel partners capable of supporting discovery,\nassessment and roadmap development.\n\nQSE describes itself as a Canadian technology company specializing in\npost-quantum data security, encryption and secure data infrastructure, built\naround quantum-delivered entropy and zero-knowledge architecture, serving\ncommercial, enterprise and public-sector environments requiring long-term data\nconfidentiality. Company filings are available under its profile on SEDAR+\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=AdNgerU74BaAkdJ-HOonK3sLTZ7VcrRZxge9yrSj1WOPNy_55M54csERxxbFdfOfKZxWLIPW8CZv5jRojMGPLg==).\n\nThere are several risks associated with the Company’s plans. A distribution\nagreement is a route to market, not revenue. No financial terms, minimum\ncommitments, order volumes or revenue expectations were disclosed, and there\nis no assurance that the agreement will generate sales, that any channel\npartner will transact, or that the relationship will continue. QSE is a\nsmall-capitalization company whose securities trade on the Canadian Securities\nExchange and the OTCQB marketplace, where trading may be thin and volatile.\nThe post-quantum security market remains early, adoption timelines are set by\ncustomers and regulators rather than by vendors, and the Company competes\nagainst substantially larger and better capitalised cybersecurity and\ntechnology companies, several of which are named in this article. Development\nand commercialization are capital intensive and may require financing that has\nnot been secured, which could dilute existing holders. Statements regarding\nregulatory deadlines and quantum computing capability timelines are\nthird-party projections that may not be realised.\n\nCONTINUED... Read this and more news for Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE:\nQSE) at: https://canadanewsgroup.com\n\nIn other industry developments and happenings in the market this week include:\n\nArqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ) is the closest listed pure-play comparison\nand the clearest illustration of both the opportunity and the scale of the\nchallenge. The London-based company develops symmetric key agreement\ntechnology for quantum-safe encryption, including a cloud-based platform for\nquantum-secure key exchange, serving telecommunications, government and\ndefence customers.\n\nIt has also moved into the same discovery layer QSE occupies, launching an\nEncryption Intelligence capability to automate cryptographic discovery and\nmigration planning, with its Chief Security Officer making the point that\norganizations cannot manage or secure cryptographic assets they cannot see.\nThat convergence is telling: two companies approaching the market from\ndifferent technical directions have arrived at the same conclusion about where\nthe first sale is.\n\nThe sobering part is the revenue. Arqit reported fiscal 2025 revenue of\nroughly US$535,000 and executed contracts generating approximately US$1.2\nmillion in fiscal 2026. Those are small numbers against a threat described in\nnational security terms, and they capture the central tension in this sector:\nthe problem is enormous, the deadlines are real, and the commercial market is\nstill in its earliest innings.\n\nSEALSQ Corp. (Nasdaq: LAES) attacks the problem in hardware rather than\nsoftware, developing post-quantum semiconductors and secure elements. In\nSeptember 2026 it integrated wolfSSL’s wolfTPM software support into its\nQVault TPM, a post-quantum silicon platform, providing an open-source software\nlayer for executing hardware-isolated post-quantum cryptography operations\nacross embedded systems.\n\nThe hardware angle matters because a large share of the world’s cryptography\ndoes not live in software that can be patched. It lives in chips, secure\nelements and devices with service lives measured in decades, deployed in\nvehicles, industrial systems, payment terminals and infrastructure. Those\ncannot be migrated by a software update, which is both a constraint on the\ntransition and a reason the discovery step is harder than it sounds.\n\nIonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ) appears in this article for the opposite reason to the\nothers. It is building the machine. The company has accelerated its roadmap\ntoward a quantum computer with a logical qubit count sufficient to challenge\nRSA 2048 into the 2028 to 2029 window, a target cited by Arqit’s chief\nexecutive as evidence that the migration horizon may be shorter than the\nmarket assumes.\n\nIonQ also acquired ID Quantique, a pioneer in commercial quantum key\ndistribution systems and quantum random number generators, which places it on\nboth sides of the equation. For investors reading this sector, IonQ is the\nclock. Every announcement that pulls capable hardware closer compresses the\nwindow available to everyone selling protection against it, which is unusual:\nin most markets the threat and the remedy are not disclosed on the same public\ntimeline.\n\nPalo Alto Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: PANW) represents the competitive reality\nthat every small vendor in this space eventually meets. It is one of the\nlargest cybersecurity platform companies in the world, selling network\nsecurity, cloud security and security operations to the same enterprise and\ngovernment buyers that post-quantum specialists are targeting, through\nrelationships and procurement vehicles that are already in place.\n\nThe strategic question for a company of QSE’s size is therefore not whether\nit can build a better assessment tool. It is whether it can reach buyers\nbefore the platform vendors fold equivalent capability into products those\nbuyers already own. That is the logic behind distributing through established\nchannel partners rather than building direct sales, and it is the right\nresponse to the competitive structure, though it does not remove the risk.\n\nContact Information:\nhttps://canadanewsgroup.com\n\nMedia Contact:\ninfo@canadanewsgroup.com\n\nDISCLAIMER:\n\nNothing in this publication should be considered personalized financial\nadvice. We are not licensed under securities laws to address your particular\nfinancial situation, and no communication from us should be deemed\npersonalized financial advice. Please consult a licensed financial advisor\nbefore making any investment decision. This publication is neither an offer\nnor a recommendation to buy or sell any security. We hold no investment\nlicenses and are neither licensed nor qualified to provide investment advice.\nThe material in this article is intended to be strictly informational and is\nnever to be construed or interpreted as research material. All readers are\nstrongly urged to perform their own research and due diligence and to consult\na licensed financial professional before considering any level of investing in\nstocks.\n\nThis article is being distributed by Canada News Group, which is wholly owned\nand operated by Market Equities Limited (\"MEL\"), a company incorporated under\nthe laws of Ireland. MEL was previously paid a fee directly by Quantum Secure\nEncryption Corp. for advertising and digital media services under an agreement\nthat has since expired. MEL has not been paid a fee for this article, which\nwas prepared and published independently. Because of that prior compensation\nand the share ownership described below, MEL and its owners, operators,\ndirectors, and affiliates have a financial interest in the securities of\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp., which constitutes a conflict of interest as\nto our ability to remain objective in our communication regarding the profiled\ncompany. Because of this conflict, individuals are strongly encouraged not to\nuse this publication as the basis for any investment decision.\n\nMEL and its owners, operators, directors, and affiliates own shares of Quantum\nSecure Encryption Corp., acquired both through private placement and through\nthe open market, and reserve the right to buy and sell shares of Quantum\nSecure Encryption Corp. at any time without any further notice commencing\nimmediately and ongoing, in the open market, through private placements,\nand/or through other investment vehicles. There may also be third parties who\nhold shares of Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. and may liquidate their shares,\nwhich could have a negative effect on the price of the stock.\n\nWhile all information is believed to be reliable, it is not guaranteed by us\nto be accurate. Individuals should assume that all information contained in\nthis publication is not trustworthy unless verified by their own independent\nresearch. Because events and circumstances frequently do not occur as\nexpected, there will likely be differences between any predictions and actual\nresults. Investors are cautioned that they may lose all or a portion of their\ninvestment when investing in stocks. Be extremely careful, investing in\nsecurities carries a high degree of risk; you may lose some or all of your\ninvestment. This document is governed by the laws of Ireland.\n\nCautionary Note Regarding the Distribution Agreement and Technology Claims.\nThe distribution agreement described in this article establishes a route to\nmarket and does not itself constitute revenue, an order, or a purchase\ncommitment. No financial terms, minimum volumes, duration or revenue\nexpectations were disclosed by the Company, and there is no assurance that the\nagreement will result in sales, that any channel partner will transact, or\nthat the arrangement will be maintained. Descriptions of the Company’s\nplatform, its capabilities, the number and nature of Nextwave’s channel\npartners, and the intentions of the parties are as disclosed by the Company\nand have not been independently verified by the publisher. References to Thai\ngovernment and enterprise interest in post-quantum readiness describe general\nmarket conditions and do not represent commitments by any customer. Statements\nregarding NIST standards, Executive Order 14412, federal deadlines and quantum\ncomputing capability timelines describe policy conditions and third-party\nprojections; such projections may not be realised, timelines may move in\neither direction, and none of them constitutes an assurance of demand for any\ncompany’s products. The Canadian Securities Exchange has in no way passed\nupon the merits of the business of the Company and has neither approved nor\ndisapproved the contents of the Company’s news release.\n\nCautionary Note Regarding Referenced Companies. References to Arqit Quantum\nInc., SEALSQ Corp., IonQ, Inc. and Palo Alto Networks, Inc. are provided\nsolely as market and sector context. Those companies are not peers,\ncompetitors, or financial comparables of Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. in\nany investment sense. They are at materially different stages of development,\nscale and capitalisation, they pursue different technical approaches, and in\nthe case of IonQ, Inc. the company is developing quantum computing hardware\nrather than post-quantum security products. Their revenues, contracts, product\nroadmaps, technical milestones and share performance are not indicative of\nQuantum Secure Encryption Corp.’s prospects. None of those companies is\ninvolved in the production or distribution of this article, and no\npartnership, affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement is implied. References\nto Nextwave (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and to vendors it distributes for, and to\nGoogle, IBM, Cloudflare, wolfSSL, ID Quantique and NIST, describe third\nparties, standards bodies or reported facts and do not imply any endorsement\nof the profiled company or its securities by any of them.\n\nEagle Eye Disclosure. Eagle Eye is an investor signal-intelligence platform\naffiliated with the publisher of this article, and this reference constitutes\npromotion of an affiliated product. Eagle Eye is not a broker-dealer, and\nnothing in the platform or in this article is financial, investment, tax, or\nlegal advice. Data provided in the platform is for informational purposes only\nand may be delayed. Always do your own research before making any investment\ndecision. See it at eagle-eye.dev.\n\nCautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements. This publication\ncontains \"forward-looking information\" within the meaning of applicable\nCanadian securities legislation and \"forward-looking statements\" within the\nmeaning of applicable United States securities laws, including statements\nregarding the anticipated benefits of the distribution agreement described,\nthe development of offerings tailored to the Thai market, customer engagements\nand channel partner enablement, the Company’s expansion across the\nAsia-Pacific region, the adoption of post-quantum cryptography, regulatory and\nprocurement deadlines, and the anticipated capability and timing of quantum\ncomputing hardware. Such statements are generally identified by words such as\n\"believes\", \"expects\", \"aim\", \"anticipates\", \"intends\", \"estimates\", \"plans\",\n\"may\", \"should\", \"would\", \"will\", \"potential\" or \"scheduled\", or variations of\nsuch words. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and are\nbased on assumptions and analyses made in light of experience and perception\nof historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments,\nincluding those risks and assumptions described in the Company’s latest\nmanagement discussion and analysis, a copy of which is available under the\nCompany’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Readers are cautioned not\nto place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as\nof the date of this publication. Risks include, without limitation, general\neconomic conditions, continued satisfaction of Canadian Securities Exchange\nrequirements, competition, regulatory compliance, the pace of customer\nadoption, and risks associated with the Company’s business. 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