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Financial assurance at event speed

Legacy controls react after settlement; this solution anchors Assurance to trusted events and bounded decisions. Event-native processing with bounded latency means actions land inside the control window, while provable assurance means every decision is traceable to signed inputs and sealed evidence.

Protect payments, KMS operations, and identity with post-quantum trust and behavioural analysis.

The Integrity of Markets: Why Finance Cannot Wait for Q-Day

In 2026, the GPU-quantum merge makes "data at rest" obsolete. For global financial institutions, the threat is no longer theoretical; it is a quiet siphoning of wealth and market secrets.

Trust is the high ground. The G7 Cyber Expert Group's January 2026 roadmap makes the point clear: the risk is not just fraud today, but 2026 assets becoming "unlocked loot" in 2028.

The strategic reality

HNDL is a silent run on the bank. Adversaries are siphoning encrypted transaction logs, custodial records, and behavioral vectors with the certainty that classical encryption expires.

Why it is happening now

The long-game has replaced quick-hit card theft. Attackers bank on 2028 quantum capability to decrypt today’s archives and seize market advantage later.

Where the risk lives: three critical vulnerabilities

Each vector exposes long-horizon financial data while it remains economically useful.

The forever audit trail

Risk: KYC, AML, and deep-history transaction logs must be retained for years. Reality: Harvested RSA/ECC archives become client financial DNA once quantum decryption arrives.

Custodial trust shadow

Risk: Tokenized assets and CBDCs rely on ECDSA signatures vulnerable to Shor. Reality: Public keys harvested now enable private key recovery later.

Payment rails interdependency

Risk: Settlement handshakes use vulnerable key exchange. Reality: Decrypted telemetry enables forged signatures and systemic market disruption.

The value paradox: why they want your AI data first

Alpha generation and automated fraud detection depend on vector databases that compress market signals into high-intelligence features.

Adversaries who steal vectors are not stealing logs; they are capturing the features your models use to find arbitrage and detect volatility.

What HNDL captures

  • Trading intuition: Feature vectors encode proprietary detection logic.
  • Context maps: Compressed behavioral and market state histories.
  • Future access: Public keys harvested now enable private key derivation later.

Build a quantum-safe shield today

Waiting for a 2027 mandate is a strategy for bankruptcy. Hive Størm provides finance-grade encasement now.

Immediate PQC wrappers

ML-KEM 1024 protects event-level data and AI vectors, poisoning HNDL harvests.

Hybrid interoperability

AES-256 plus post-quantum math keeps PCI-DSS and Basel IV alignment while sealing future gaps.

PQC AI module

Monitors at-rest and in-transit encryption, adapting levels and key cycles as quantum capability rises.

Zero-latency for high-frequency trading

Optimized for NVIDIA-accelerated data centers with compression that preserves flow and quantum safety.

The strategic bottom line

In finance, a breach is expensive, but a systemic loss of trust is fatal. If you are not implementing post-quantum cryptography today, you are providing future competitors and adversaries with the keys to your clients' wealth.

Stop the harvest. Secure the future.

Supporting capabilities

Capabilities reinforce Assurance outcomes.

Platform capabilities that enforce trust at event level across domains.

Financial teams trust evidence-grade Assurance

Assurance aligns risk to policy.

Policy-first actions with sealed audit trails.

Bounded risk actions

Policy constraints prevent escalation.

Sealed audit trails

Evidence preserved for regulators.

Operational resilience

Containment without disrupting services.

Protect every decision in the transaction flow.

Assurance demands provable controls.

Secure financial operations with event-level enforcement.