Cybersecurity, Quantum Security

Patero and Horizen Labs team up on post-quantum security plans

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November 11, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Patero and Horizen Labs began a collaboration on November 11, 2026, designed to help organizations proactively address the emerging threat of quantum computing to current encryption methods. Horizen Labs will offer advisory services to prioritize cryptographic migration, while Patero’s PanoQoR tool assists clients in documenting vulnerabilities within their existing systems. “Every quantum-readiness program has to answer a practical question: What can we change first without disrupting the business?” said Peter Bentley, CEO of Patero, explaining how the partnership aims to provide actionable steps for real-world network protection through tools like Patero’s CryptoQoR.

PanoQoR and CryptoQoR Tools Inventory Cryptographic Dependencies

Patero’s CryptoQoR tool offers a focused approach to post-quantum cryptography adoption, allowing for evaluation within a limited scope such as a remote administrative connection or a sensitive data link between locations. This phased testing strategy minimizes risk by avoiding a full-scale overhaul before validating the new cryptographic protections on a live network. Horizen Labs will integrate this tool into its advisory services, translating technical findings into actionable migration roadmaps for clients.

These roadmaps will prioritize changes based on system criticality, data confidentiality requirements and potential disruption to existing operations. Horizen Labs’ advisory work focuses on translating complex findings into a prioritized sequence of actions, and Rob Viglione, CEO of Horizen Labs, said, “We help clients weigh which systems matter most, how long their data needs to stay confidential, and what each change could disrupt.”

The collaboration allows for a direct transition from assessment to testing. Patero’s PanoQoR tool builds a cryptographic inventory to pinpoint vulnerabilities, while CryptoQoR provides a platform for real-world validation. A client can establish a baseline inventory where one does not exist, then use the pilot program to define clear performance criteria and a rollback plan before wider implementation. The partnership extends beyond simple inventory and testing because a well-defined migration roadmap is essential for securing funding and gaining approval for a rollout.

“A migration roadmap earns its keep when it tells a client what to fund first and what evidence they’ll need to approve a rollout,” Viglione added. Patero’s PanoQoR specifically addresses the initial challenge of identifying cryptographic dependencies, a critical first step in any quantum-readiness program.

Peter Bentley, CEO of Patero, explained that “Horizen Labs helps leaders make that decision. Patero gives technical teams the evidence to act on it and the tools to test protection on a real network path before committing to a broader rollout.” Horizen Labs has already recognized Patero’s value, including the company in its PQC Vendor Ecosystem Map as a key solution provider for PQC migration.

A migration roadmap earns its keep when it tells a client what to fund first and what evidence they’ll need to approve a rollout.

Rob Viglione, CEO of Horizen Labs
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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