At POLITICO's Policy Outlook Cybersecurity Event, Cy4Data Labs Unveils the World's First Quantum-Proof Encryption

WASHINGTON — Cy4Data Labs, the first cybersecurity company to protect data at every stage of its lifecycle, today announced that its flagship product Cy4Secure is the industry’s first true quantum-proof encryption solution. The announcement was made live on stage at POLITICO’s Policy Outlook Cybersecurity event, where leading experts convened to discuss the mounting risks of quantum computing.

Cy4Secure’s quantum-proof protection is built for a future where traditional encryption fails. As quantum computing advances threaten to break current encryption standards, organizations face the growing danger of “harvest-now-decrypt-later” attacks, where adversaries steal encrypted data today with the intent to decrypt it once quantum capabilities mature.

“The quantum threat isn’t theoretical — it’s already here in the form of harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks,” said Lance Smith, CEO of Cy4Data Labs. “Cy4Secure ensures that even data stolen today remains permanently worthless to attackers, regardless of future computing power.”

Cy4Secure’s data-defined atomic-level encryption technology provides mathematically unbreakable protection by uniquely encrypting each specific piece of data at the individual field or word level rather than applying blanket algorithmic rules. This eliminates the systemic patterns that both quantum computers and AI-driven attacks rely on to break security.

The announcement comes at a critical time, as governments worldwide accelerate quantum computing investments and the cybersecurity community prepares for what experts call “Q-Day” — the moment quantum computers can break current encryption standards.

Cy4Secure revolutionizes data security by protecting data during every phase — in use, in transit, and at rest — without impacting workflows or performance. The platform’s ability to manage millions of encryption keys simultaneously, securing individual fields or even single words, sets a new standard for enterprise data protection.

About Cy4Data Labs

Cy4Data Labs’ flagship product, Cy4Secure, is the only encryption platform capable of protecting structured and unstructured data at the most granular level, across cloud, on-prem, hybrid, and SaaS environments.