Quantum Safe Data Protection: How Certes Protects Your Data Like Preventing a Bank Heist

Cybercrime isn’t just a security issue – it’s an impending financial crisis. By 2025, cyberattacks are expected to cost the global economy over $10.5 trillion annually, making cybercrime more lucrative than the global drug trade. And with quantum computing advancing faster than many anticipate, today’s encryption standards could soon be obsolete. In this climate, quantum safe data protection is not a future consideration – it’s essential today. 

Data Heists: The Digital Bank Robbery

Picture your sensitive data like stacks of cash being transported in an armored truck. The moment it leaves your environment, it becomes a target. Data in motion is the most vulnerable point in your infrastructure. And cybercriminals know it. 

Over 80% of data breaches occur during transmission. Once stolen, that data becomes a ticking time bomb, leading to regulatory fines, lawsuits, operational disruption, and reputational damage. British Airways learned this the hard way, fined £20 million under GDPR for failing to protect data in transit.

The Certes Advantage: Quantum Safe Data Protection – DPRM Renders Data Valueless to Thieves

Certes protects the data itself. Even if attackers intercept your data in motion, they walk away with nothing of value. 

Think of Certes like a dye pack hidden in a bundle of banknotes during a robbery. At first glance, it looks like a clean getaway, until the pack explodes, permanently staining the money and rendering it worthless. No matter how much was taken, it’s unusable, untraceable, and unsellable. 

Similarly, with Certes’ quantum safe Data Protection and Risk Mitigation (DPRM), intercepted data becomes instantly worthless to attackers, rendered unreadable, unintelligible, and impossible to repurpose. No ransom demands, no leverage, no exposure. It’s the digital equivalent of breaking into a vault and finding nothing of value – your data remains completely protected.

Quantum Safe Data Protection with No Single Point of Failure

Legacy systems focus on keeping intruders out. But when attackers are logging in with stolen credentials, firewalls are irrelevant.

82% of data breaches exploit weaknesses in internal systems or the network perimeter.

Certes eliminates single points of failure with distributed, layered protection. Even if part of your network is compromised, your data stays protected, no readable content, no usable information, no breach. 

End-to-End Data Protection 

The term “end-to-end encryption” is frequently used in the cybersecurity space, but its implementation often falls short of its promise. Many solutions encrypt data only between specific nodes or within segmented parts of the network, leaving points of exposure where data is briefly decrypted for inspection, routing, or policy enforcement.

Certes takes a fundamentally different approach. Its architecture enforces persistent encryption, ensuring that data remains protected from its point of origin to its final destination, without ever being exposed in plaintext, even during transit across internal networks or third-party infrastructure. This eliminates common vulnerabilities introduced by intermediate decryption and reduces the attack surface significantly.

This is more than encryption, it’s data-in-motion security as it was originally intended: continuous, verifiable, and resistant to compromise. 

The Result: Cybercriminals Walk Away Empty-Handed

Even in a worst-case scenario, when a breach occurs – Certes ensures attackers walk away with nothing. Certes protects this data by encrypting it using a symmetric encryption key known only to trusted endpoints. This ensures confidentiality against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and guarantees data integrity to prevent data poisoning.

Think of it as a failed bank heist: the vault is empty, the money is ink-stained, and the criminals get nothing.

Why It Matters

• Regulatory protection: Avoid GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and CJIS fines by keeping sensitive data secure in transit and at rest.
• Post-quantum readiness: Certes is already integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against future threats.
• Operational continuity: Ransomware attacks cost over $2.7 million per incident. Certes ensures stolen data is unusable, reducing the attacker’s leverage. 

Don’t Just Secure the Door. Make the Data Worthless to Attackers.

Quantum-safe cybersecurity is not a future requirement, it’s a present-day necessity. Certes ensures your most sensitive data remains protected, compliant, and worthless to adversaries.

Protect your data. Disrupt the heist. Stay ahead with Certes.