Fortinet to Support Singapore’s Quest for Quantum-Safe Future
15 June 2022 - 09:00AM
Fortinet to Support Singapore’s Quest for Quantum-Safe Future
Fortinet®, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated
cybersecurity solutions, has announced a collaboration with
Singapore's Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) to support
Singapore's National Quantum-Safe Network (NQSN) project. Funded by
the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF), the NQSN seeks
to develop an ultra-secure communications and services
infrastructure to safeguard digital transactions against
sophisticated cyber threats.
Representatives from Fortinet and the National
University of Singapore (NUS), which hosts the QEP, signed a
memorandum-of-understanding (MOU) at the TechXLR8 Asia event in
Singapore on 3rd June 2022. Fortinet’s work with NQSN will support
QEP in proof of concepts and jointly explore use cases for
quantum-safe communications. Fortinet will provide resources in
network security including prototypes that can interface to quantum
devices for trials within the NQSN.
Fortinet has demonstrated capabilities to
interoperate with a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system. QKD
technology can create random encryption keys and transmit them in a
secure way across a fibre connection. Leveraging on its
capabilities to offer security-driven networking solutions,
Fortinet’s firewalls were able to receive randomly-generated
quantum keys, and use them to encrypt data to be sent 20 kilometres
remotely using Fortinet IP-VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private
Network) solutions to provide quantum-safe encryption.
As a partner in NQSN, Fortinet is at the
forefront of the forward-looking national initiative that seeks to
thwart cyber attacks from future, large-scale quantum computers and
identify new use cases for quantum technologies. Through this
collaboration, Fortinet will support Singapore’s ongoing transition
into a trusted digital innovation hub.
Alexander Ling, Director of the QEP and an
Associate Professor at NUS, said, “The National Quantum-Safe
Network will rely on public-private collaborations to become an
effective testbed. It needs to bridge advanced quantum-safe
communication technologies to practical use-cases. We welcome the
involvement of Fortinet as an experienced cybersecurity provider in
pursuing this mission.”
Jess Ng, Fortinet Country Head of Singapore and
Brunei, said, "Fortinet is dedicated to being at the frontline of
Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives, through a range of private
and public sector cybersecurity partnerships. Fortinet’s support
for the QEP will boost the development of quantum-safe
communication technologies that will transform the digital
landscape. This will also set the stage for organizations to adopt
a security-driven networking approach when it comes to future
deployment.”
About FortinetFortinet (NASDAQ:
FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust
through its mission to protect people, devices, and data
everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service
providers, and government organisations choose Fortinet to securely
accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric
platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections
across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical
devices, data, applications, and connections from the data centre
to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security
appliances shipped worldwide, more than 580,000 customers trust
Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training
Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda
(TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs
in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities
available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the
Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
About Quantum Engineering
ProgrammeSingapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP)
aims to realise the benefits of quantum technologies for society.
Launched in 2018, it supports translational research focused on
industry challenges and initiatives to nurture a quantum ecosystem.
The QEP supports R&D projects in three pillars: quantum
sensing, quantum communication and security, and quantum computing
and processors. The programme also involves three national
platforms – the Quantum-Safe Network, Quantum Computing Hub and
Quantum Fabless Foundry – and grows the ecosystem through
public-private collaborations and events. Coordinated nationally
across various research organisations, it is supported by the
National Research Foundation, Singapore and the Agency for Science,
Technology and Research (A*STAR), and hosted by the National
University of Singapore. Learn more at www.qepsg.org.
About National University of Singapore
(NUS)The National University of Singapore (NUS) is
Singapore’s flagship university, which offers a global approach to
education, research and entrepreneurship, with a focus on Asian
perspectives and expertise. We have 17 faculties across three
campuses in Singapore, with more than 40,000 students from 100
countries enriching our vibrant and diverse campus community. We
have also established our NUS Overseas Colleges programme in more
than 15 cities around the world.
Our multidisciplinary and real-world approach to
education, research and entrepreneurship enables us to work closely
with industry, governments and academia to address crucial and
complex issues relevant to Asia and the world. Researchers in our
faculties, 30 university-level research institutes, research
centres of excellence and corporate labs focus on themes that
include energy; environmental and urban sustainability; treatment
and prevention of diseases; active ageing; advanced materials; risk
management and resilience of financial systems; Asian studies; and
Smart Nation capabilities such as artificial intelligence, data
science, operations research and cybersecurity.
For more information on NUS, please visit
www.nus.edu.sg.
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