Mr. Brian Stringer reports

01 QUANTUM ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY SOLUTIONS

01 Quantum Inc. has entered into a postquantum cryptography (PQC) engineering partnership agreement with a leading Canadian global information-technology and business consulting services company and a premier global systems integrator. This agreement designates 01 Quantum as a core subject matter expert (SME) to support the delivery, integration and deployment of quantum-safe architectures for enterprise and government customers.

"We have reached an engineering inflection point where the countdown to Q-Date is approaching rapidly," said Andrew Cheung, chief executive officer of 01 Quantum. "Cryptographic migration is an intricate, multiyear endeavour that cannot be treated as a last-minute software patch. This partnership gives us the opportunity to integrate our production ready, enterprise PQC technologies with a leading global system integrator, enabling us to immediately deploy specialized protection to Canadian enterprise and government environments before legacy security perimeters become vulnerable."

The agreement establishes a flexible and scalable corporate framework designed to facilitate long-term collaboration through multiple individual statements of work (SOWs) across diverse public and private sector projects in Canada. The company has also been appointed as a non-exclusive system integrator for PQC related initiatives undertaken by its new strategic partner.

Under the terms of the agreement, the partner is authorized to resell, sublicense and distribute 01 Quantum's proprietary PQC products and services, both as stand-alone offerings and as integrated components of their broader digital transformation and consulting services. 01 Quantum will provide continuous product maintenance, high-tier technical support and dedicated PQC subject matter expertise. The company's partner will lead end-to-end customer engagements, overall systems integration architectures and localized project delivery.

As the technology sector moves through 2026, the timeline to "Q-Date," the point at which a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) becomes capable of breaking legacy public-key encryption (such as RSA and ECC) has compressed from a distant theoretical risk into an urgent operational timeline. Security frameworks and federal directives are increasingly demanding immediate migration strategies to mitigate the "harvest now, decrypt later" (HNDL) threat model. Under this threat vector, malicious actors are actively intercepting and archiving encrypted data today, intending to decrypt it the moment fault-tolerant quantum hardware becomes accessible. Consequently, implementing postquantum cryptography has transitioned from a future planning initiative to an immediate necessity for protecting long-lived corporate data and critical public infrastructure.

About 01 Quantum Inc.

01 Quantum is known for its innovative work in postquantum cryptography (PQC), developing technologies designed to protect digital systems against emerging quantum computing threats. The company's IronCAP and supporting technologies are integrated into its PQC solutions, enabling applications across security-sensitive environments including digital assets, AI systems, e-mail security, and enterprise infrastructure.

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