Headline: Quantum-Resistant Encryption Hits the Tactical Edge at Dubai Airshow 2025 🛩️🛡️
Date: 17 November 2025
At Dubai Airshow 2025, cybersecurity company Senetas showcased its CN7000 series of quantum-resistant network encryptors, targeting one of the harshest environments for secure communications: the battlefield.
These devices are designed to extend certified, military-grade encryption to contested, high-threat environments—covering everything from cockpit data links to Command, Control and Intelligence (C3I) traffic moving across rugged networks.
What’s special here
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🪖 Tactical focus: Instead of only protecting core data centres or backbone links, CN7000-class devices are meant for field deployment in aircraft, vehicles and forward positions.
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⚙️ High-assurance + quantum-resistance: Senetas has a long history in certified Layer-2 encryption, and is now pushing quantum-resistant, crypto-agile designs into defence and critical infrastructure.
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🌍 Signals from defence sector: When battlefield systems adopt quantum-resistant encryption, it’s a clear sign that state-level adversaries are being modelled as quantum-capable in the medium term.
Why it matters beyond defence
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🧵 Techniques developed for tactical environments often trickle down into civilian and enterprise products over time.
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🔐 It reinforces the pattern: post-quantum capabilities first appear in defence, government and backbone infrastructure, then spread outward.
Message for PostQuantumApps readers
For those following PostQuantumApps:
When even front-line C3I links are being upgraded with quantum-resistant encryptors, it’s a strong hint that personal files, backups and application-level security should not be left behind.
The same mindset—assume quantum-capable adversaries ahead of time—is exactly what PostQuantumApps is built around.