Mr. Alan Guibord reports

INTEGRATED QUANTUM REPORTS SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF GLOBAL VEIL SECURITY CHALLENGE

Integrated Cyber Solutions Inc., doing business as Integrated Quantum Technologies, has completed its global pierce the VEIL Kaggle challenge, an open security competition designed to evaluate the non-invertibility of the company's proprietary VEIL (vector-encoded information layer) technology.

Hosted on Kaggle, one of the world's largest data science and machine learning competition platforms, the challenge invited researchers, artificial intelligence practitioners and data scientists from around the world to attempt to reconstruct original data from VEIL-encoded representations. The competition was designed to provide an independent evaluation of one of VEIL's core security properties: that encoded data cannot be reconstructed back into its original sensitive form.

Upon completion of the competition, no participant met the criteria required to claim the grand prize, with no successful reconstruction of the original underlying data. The company reviewed 43 full-reconstruction submissions. While the valid executable submissions produced finite numeric outputs, none satisfied the structural validation requirements necessary for full reconstruction. In particular, no submission recovered the hidden-source dimensionality and row-aligned source matrix required to advance through the subsequent reconstruction accuracy, baseline, dependence, generalization and code review stages.

In addition to the competition results, participant submissions and research provided valuable technical insights that further extended the company's validation efforts. The company believes these independent analyses strengthened the body of evidence supporting VEIL's privacy-preserving design and provided additional confidence in the technology's security characteristics.

"We are grateful to everyone who participated and for the valuable contributions made throughout the competition," said Jeremy Samuelson, chief technology officer and executive vice-president of AI and innovation at Integrated Quantum Technologies. "The fact that the grand prize remained unclaimed is an important validation milestone for our technology. Just as importantly, the work produced by participants expanded our own validation efforts and reinforced confidence in VEIL's non-invertible architecture. We are proud of the transparency of this process and grateful to everyone who participated."

VEIL is Integrated Quantum's proprietary privacy-preserving AI technology that transforms sensitive information into highly compressed encoded representations before it is processed by artificial intelligence systems. By helping eliminate access to raw sensitive data while maintaining AI utility, VEIL is designed to enable organizations to deploy AI across regulated and privacy-sensitive environments without exposing the underlying information.

The company believes third party validation plays an important role in the commercialization of enterprise AI infrastructure. By hosting the competition on Kaggle, Integrated Quantum engaged the broader AI research community in an open evaluation of VEIL while encouraging technical participation and independent analysis.

The successful completion of the pierce the VEIL challenge represents another milestone in the company's growing intellectual property and commercialization strategy, following the previously announced provisional patent filings for both VEIL and MASQ. The company intends to continue advancing VEIL through enterprise deployments, strategic partnerships and continuing independent validation initiatives.

The company recognizes the inherent limitations of any single evaluation and considers the competition one component of its broader program of continuing research, testing and technical validation.

About Integrated Quantum Technologies Inc.

Integrated Quantum is building quantum-ready infrastructure to help secure and scale artificial intelligence. The company's product offerings include the AIQu platform, which supports its long-term strategy for privacy-preserving and resilient AI systems and VEIL, its first commercial product designed to protect sensitive AI data and workflows in enterprise environments. Integrated Quantum's proprietary technologies address emerging postquantum security risks, increasing compute demands and the increasing complexity of deploying AI at scale. These innovations are complemented by Integrated Quantum's managed services offering and the company's SecureGuard360 cybersecurity platform for end-to-end AI security and monitoring.

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