Last updated: October 8, 2026
Recognition highlights Futurex’s continued innovation of post-quantum cryptography across enterprise and payment environments.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, October 8, 2026 – Futurex, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced that it has been named “PQC Platform of the Year” in the 2026 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards for its Excrypt HSMs, unified cryptographic platform, CryptoHub, and VirtuCrypt cryptographic cloud services.
The award marks another CyberSecurity Breakthrough recognition for Futurex, following its 2025 selection as Overall Encryption Solution Provider of the Year.
Futurex has developed post-quantum cryptography as part of its broader cryptographic architecture rather than as a standalone capability. The Excrypt HSM platform supports NIST-standardized ML-KEM and ML-DSA alongside classical algorithms, providing organizations with a hardware-backed foundation for adopting post-quantum cryptography while continuing to support established cryptographic workloads.
Futurex was also the first provider to announce PCI HSM-validated HSMs supporting post-quantum cryptography, extending PQC support into payment environments where cryptographic controls and validation requirements are especially demanding.
CryptoHub extends that foundation with centralized management and orchestration across supported cryptographic services, including HSMs, key management, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and data protection. Futurex supports deployment across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments while keeping the HSM trust boundary distinct from the surrounding management layer.
“Post-quantum readiness is becoming an architecture decision, not simply an algorithm update,” said David Close, Chief Solutions Architect at Futurex.
"Organizations need a way to introduce new cryptographic standards while continuing to operate the payment, PKI, key management, and data protection workloads they depend on today. This recognition reflects the work our teams have done to make post-quantum cryptography part of that broader cryptographic foundation.”
Built for the Post-Quantum Transition
- Unified cryptographic architecture: Futurex Excrypt HSMs provide the hardware-backed foundation for payment and general-purpose cryptographic workloads, CryptoHub unifies management and orchestration across HSMs, key management, PKI and certificate authority, data protection, and related cryptographic services, and VirtuCrypt cloud services extend this leadership with 16 global data centers powered by its leading cryptographic solutions. This architecture allows Futurex to integrate new standards like ML-KEM and ML-DSA into the environments that organizations already operate, rather than deploying PQC as a separate point solution.
- Native PQC support: Excrypt HSMs support NIST-standardized ML-KEM and ML-DSA alongside established cryptographic algorithms, providing organizations with a hardware-backed foundation for introducing post-quantum cryptography into their supported workloads.
- Hardware-backed assurance: Futurex Excrypt HSMs are compliant with FIPS 140-3 Level 3 and support PCI HSM v4 for applicable payment HSM workloads.
- Flexible deployment and scale: Excrypt HSMs support up to 75 virtual HSMs in supported configurations and deployment across on-premises appliances, PCIe cards, and Futurex cloud services. CryptoHub provides centralized orchestration across supported physical, virtual, and cloud-hosted environments. VirtuCrypt brings these solutions to customers across the globe for improved scalability, redundancy, and reduced latency.
The 2026 program marks the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. According to CyberSecurity Breakthrough, the program evaluates cybersecurity companies and solutions across a range of information security categories. Its published judging process assesses entries against criteria including innovation, performance, functionality, user experience, market impact, and value.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program recognizes information security and cybersecurity companies, products, and people across categories such as cloud security, threat detection, risk management, encryption, identity and access management, and post-quantum cryptography.
About Futurex
For over 40 years, Futurex has been an award-winning leader and innovator in the encryption market, delivering uncompromising enterprise-grade data security solutions. Over 15,000 organizations worldwide trust Futurex to provide groundbreaking PQC-ready hardware security modules, key management, PKI and CA, data protection, and cloud HSM solutions. Futurex is headquartered outside of San Antonio, Texas, with regional offices worldwide and over a dozen data centers across five continents. Futurex delivers unmatched support for its clients’ mission-critical data encryption and key management requirements.
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