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Revolutionising Defence Cybersecurity: Nanoteq’s Cutting-Edge Cryptographic Solutions

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Cybersecurity is a top priority in all spheres of life, and increasingly so in the defence environment. South Africa was one of the first countries to make a strategic decision to develop, grow and retain highly skilled cryptographic capabilities with Nanoteq identified as strategic entity to achieve this.

With a history going back more than 34 years, Nanoteq boasts numerous international clients and ground-breaking disruptive technologies in practical achievable cryptographic autonomy.

“As the core strategic crypto development entity to the South African government, we are geared for client-specific bespoke developments,” said Rian Olivier, Nanoteq Business Development Executive. “Although we have a comprehensive product suite in support of our cryptographic autonomy strategy, we are in essence a strategic partner to all our clients.”

Nanoteq’s total secure mobile communication architecture and solution enables seamless secure unified communications across tactical and commercial systems. This functionality is implemented in conjunction with Reutech Communication’s tactical radio products and Rapid Mobile’s modem technology, all provided by proudly South African companies.

Nanoteq’s H10 secure mobile military unified communication solution allows multiple H10 users, using iOS, Android or Huawei devices, to send and receive secured messages when an internet connection is not available or not trusted. In practise this is achieved using the tactical radio as the communication back-bone.

Nanoteq’s Qmunicate server can be connected on a standard Wi-Fi network and will provide secure calling, messaging and file sharing between the H10 users on this Wi-Fi network. However, when the combat radio network is coupled to the Qmunicate server, users can send and receive data that would normally traverse the internet. This information is transferred to the destination server, from which it is routed onto the internet to reach the intended H10 user/s anywhere in the world.

“Not only do we have this capability to offer crypto autonomy for secure naval communication in a modern era, but we can bridge the communication gap to land operations as well as aerial capabilities,” explained Olivier. “This unified communication solution spans traditional boundaries between mobile, tactical and strategic communications requirements, thus ensuring end-to-end security and confidentiality.”

“Nanoteq’s proven cryptographic technologies (QCM-R hardware crypto module) ensure the best of class secure solutions in the tactical (RQ5), strategic (RQ7), as well as the naval environment (RQ11),” Olivier concluded. “We firmly believe our new RQ11 solution meets and even exceeds the specified requirements with the naval backdrop in mind.”

Nanoteq resides within the Reutech Applied Electronics segment of the Reunert Group of companies.

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