Crypto-Agile API-based Data Protection for your apps
The XQ API platform can be directly integrated into your mobile, SaaS, IoT, or cloud application to take complete ownership of your data and streamline encryption practices. With our SDKs, you can easily automate encryption in your server and mobile applications. XQ is perfect for automating the distribution of documents containing personally identifiable information (PII). As an example, the XQ API is currently in use by firms that handle large volumes of contracts and other documents that contain sensitive information.
Default Organizational Policy
It’s likely that your workflow is highly repetitive, regardless of which sector you’re in. You’re probably sending out large volumes of identical forms and documents. These documents likely contain sensitive information, whether they are invoices, contracts, or transcripts. If any one of these documents were to be intercepted, your goose (or plant-based fowl substitute) would be cooked. Not only are you subject to fines, but your reputation would be in tatters.
At XQ, we’ve solved this problem by building an API and SDKs that operate server-side to build quantum-safe encryption directly into your application. Once XQ’s API and SDKs are implemented in your mobile, SaaS, IoT, or cloud application, you can set organizational policies as to which types of documents are automatically encrypted before being sent out. It won’t impact your workflow at all and is run with zero input from employees.
Data Ownership
XQ offers key control for data ownership to take us completely out of the loop. You can export your keys to take full control of your data and to remove both XQ and SaaS vendors like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Further, key control allows you to protect your data in the event of a partner breach. For example, imagine that your company does business with another firm and frequently exchanges sensitive messages and documents with them. You’re wary of their data protection standards and unsurprisingly you hear they have been hacked. Fortunately, you use XQ and have access to all of your keys. You can revoke all of those keys, instantly protecting your data that may have been compromised in the breach.
You can also revoke access to individual users. Let’s say you want to revoke access from someone in your secure bubble because their email account was hacked (or you fired them). By revoking their access, they’ll no longer have access to your organization’s encrypted data and archived messages can’t be retrieved anywhere on their end.
Voice Encryption
When you use conferencing services like Zoom and Webex, people (as well as the provider) can easily listen in on your conversations. To solve this, our architecture supports on-the-fly encryption of streaming media and voice. With XQ, the audio is transparently encrypted directly on the user’s device. Now, you no longer need to worry about your calls being intercepted and surveilled by unwanted ears.
PII Data Intake
With the implementation of GDPR and CCPA, the management of personally identifiable information (PII) has become one of the biggest liabilities for firms. CCPA, the herald of new American privacy laws, punishes the disclosure of each piece of PII with a $2,500 fine. For firms that take in vast amounts of PII from web forms, the possibility of fines is immense given the ease with which data can be intercepted en-route from the device to your server.
Fortunately, XQ has you covered. With our API, you can deploy a client-side Javascript SDK that encrypts webforms. Suddenly one of your biggest liabilities becomes a comparative advantage. Customers can rest assured that their information is safe in even their most trivial of interactions with you.
5G Data Encryption
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is marked by large-scale digital integration of devices (IoT) and is made possible, in part, by 5G technology. Greater integration presents new security challenges that are highly complex to solve and could have devastating consequences if not remedied.
XQ is working to secure 5G networks today, in preparation for tomorrow. We bring quantum-safe encryption to 5G networks to secure them from a myriad of threats. XQ allows operators to send encrypted packets between 5G UE and application infrastructure. This bi-directional encryption enables secure communications across untrusted 5G RAN and CORE infrastructure.
Further, XQ enables 5G operators to utilize quantum-safe encryption algorithms to protect IoT sensor data across untrusted RAN/CORE infrastructure. 5G operators can use new NIST quantum-safe algorithms as well as existing algorithms such as AES and XOR/OTP.