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NCSA Accelerates Cyber Resilience Push to Counter AI and Quantum Threats, Targets Quantum-Ready by 2030
The National Cyber Security Agency, or NCSA, has unveiled its direction for driving Thailand's cybersecurity, moving to clear out technology debt and elevate organisations toward Cyber Resilience in order to counter threats in the AI era, while setting a goal of bringing government agencies and critical information infrastructure, or CII, to quantum technology readiness, or Quantum-Ready, by 2030. Air Vice Marshal Amorn Chomchoey, Secretary-General of the NCSA, said at an open talk stage hosted by OPEN-TEC, a technology knowledge hub under TCC Technology Group, that over the past 20 years IT systems were adopted rapidly without enough emphasis on security, resulting in Technology Debt, or accumulated vulnerabilities in legacy systems. The NCSA therefore proposed guidelines for raising cybersecurity through key principles, stressing that security must begin on day one of AI development, covering software and data use, model training, and post-deployment operations, alongside building Cyber Resilience that shifts from a prevention-only mindset to the ability to withstand, detect, respond to, and recover critical infrastructure systems such as energy, public health, transport, and financial services, as well as the Zero Trust principle, the Least Privilege principle, and public-private partnership. In addition, the NCSA has begun laying out guidelines to survey Cryptographic Libraries, upgrade Web Servers to support the TLS 1.3 standard, and plan a transition to quantum-resistant encryption systems, with the goal of bringing the public sector and key agencies to Quantum-Ready status by 2030. It is also organising the Thailand Cyber Top Talent activity to address the shortage of cybersecurity personnel and to exchange threat intelligence for early warning.
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01 Quantum Reports $450,000 Quarterly Cash Use, $2.5 Million Cash, Zero Debt
01 Quantum Inc reported cash usage of $450,000 for the quarter despite significantly ramped-up research and development and marketing spending, leaving it with approximately $2.5 million in cash and zero debt. Recurring revenue from partner royalties, including Hitachi, has begun accumulating and was described as growing slowly but surely, while the absence of one-time engineering fees that were collected in previous quarters weighed on revenue comparisons. The company received $22.5 million in qONE tokens plus a cash development fee for the qLABS Foundation quantum-safe crypto vault, and Chief Executive Andrew Cheung pegged the annual recurring revenue opportunity for its IronCAP XMail product at $2.6 billion, based on 10% of roughly 730 million business email addresses at $3 per month. Cheung said the AI marketplace is expected around the second quarter of 2027, and he cited an independent Carleton University evaluation confirming that the Quantum AI Wrapper performs AI inference in encrypted form at acceptable efficiency. He also said qLABS Foundation is preparing a Mythos Challenge that will load approximately $100,000 worth of qONE tokens into the qVAULT, publish the private key, and invite crypto hackers to breach it over 30 days.
SEALSQ Posts $32.2M Half-Year Operating Loss as Revenue Lags Spending
SEALSQ Corp reported a $32.2 million operating loss for the six months ended June 30, 2026, compared with $21.2 million a year earlier, according to full results released September 11. Revenue for the half reached $11.2 million, up 131%, though that figure includes $2.5 million contributed by IC'Alps SAS, so the headline increase reflects acquisition growth as well as organic sales. Gross margin came in at 48.5%, producing $5.4 million of gross profit, while research, selling and administrative expenses totaled $39.0 million before $1.4 million of other operating income, with general and administrative costs alone at $23.1 million. SEALSQ held approximately $479.8 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents at June 30, and full-year revenue guidance remains $27 million to $36 million, implying roughly $15.8 million to $24.8 million in second-half sales. Management expects initial QS7001 and QVault TPM commercial revenue toward the end of 2026, with a more significant contribution in 2027 and beyond, subject to certification, customer qualification and procurement timing.
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