Mr. Ted Carefoot reports

QSE APPOINTS THREAT INTELLIGENCE VETERAN JOSEPH HALL AS CHIEF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER

Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. has appointed Joseph Hall as chief intelligence officer. The appointment adds more than 20 years of front-line cybersecurity and threat intelligence experience to Quantum Secure as the company strengthens commercial execution, customer deployment support, and its ability to pursue larger enterprise and public-sector opportunities.

Mr. Hall has held senior cybersecurity roles across threat research, security services, network defence and enterprise security. His experience includes director of threat intel R&D (research and development) at Infoblox, head of security services at Nile, principal security consultant at Fortinet and chief information security officer at Heroic Cybersecurity, as well as earlier security engineering roles with Dell SonicWall, Sophos, Symantec PGP, American Express and Solera Networks.

His work has included security support for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, large-scale Google Cloud security infrastructure and threat-intelligence initiatives involving billions of compromised credentials. He is also an active cybersecurity speaker and commentator whose work has focused on threat intelligence, DNS security, supply-chain risk and practical approaches to reducing cyber exposure.

"Joe brings a perspective that is increasingly important as QSE moves deeper into enterprise and government markets: how sophisticated attackers operate, how security teams respond and where products need to perform in the real world," said Ted Carefoot, chief executive officer of Quantum Secure. "Combined with Mike Massing's enterprise engineering and product experience, we are building a leadership team that can connect threat intelligence, commercial execution and customer requirements as we pursue larger and more demanding opportunities."

Mr. Hall will work closely with Quantum Secure chief technology officer Michael Massing, whose background includes leading Dell SonicWall's unified threat management business unit and helping scale enterprise cybersecurity product lines to approximately $400-million in annual sales. The complementary appointments strengthen Quantum Secure's leadership across both the engineering and threat-intelligence disciplines as the company scales commercialization of its postquantum security platform.

In his role, Mr. Hall will help Quantum Secure apply real-world threat intelligence to customer deployments, solution validation and the tailoring of Quantum Secure capabilities to specific enterprise and government requirements. His mandate will also include refining customer use cases, supporting partner technology integrations, contributing technical thought leadership and helping Quantum Secure strengthen commercial execution across priority markets.

"Threat intelligence is most valuable when it helps organizations make better security decisions and respond more effectively to changing risks," said Mr. Hall. "QSE already has a strong technology platform in market. I look forward to working with Mike and the broader team to help tailor its capabilities to real-world customer environments and ensure organizations can deploy the right solutions against the threats they are facing."

Mr. Hall's appointment strengthens Quantum Secure's ability to support the commercialization of its postquantum cybersecurity platform across enterprise, government and critical infrastructure markets. His experience will help the company refine customer use cases, validate solutions against evolving threat conditions, and tailor deployments to the operational and security requirements of increasingly sophisticated organizations.

The company also announces the grant of 350,000 stock options to its employees. The options are exercisable at 50 cents per share for a period of five years from the date of grant and subject to certain vesting requirements. In addition, the company has granted 350,000 restricted share units (RSU) with each RSU exercisable into a common share of the company. The RSUs are subject to certain vesting requirements and expire three years from the date of grant.

About Quantum Secure Encryption Corp.

Quantum Secure Encryption is a Canadian technology company specializing in postquantum data security, encryption and secure data infrastructure. Built around quantum-delivered entropy and zero-knowledge architecture, Quantum Secure's solutions help protect sensitive data from current cyber threats and future quantum-enabled attacks. Quantum Secure serves organizations across commercial, enterprise, and public-sector environments requiring long-term data confidentiality and resilience.

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