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Assail Signs Qanapi to Five-Year, $4.125 Million Contract

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2 months ago

August 3, 2026

Qanapi deploys Reaper inside its own FedRAMP High, DoD IL4-aligned cloud while Assail adopts Qanapi’s post-quantum Karst platform in support of Executive Order 14412 and OMB Memorandum M-26-15

BOSTON, Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Assail, Inc., developer of the Ares and Reaper autonomous AI offensive security platforms, today announced it has signed Qanapi Group, Inc., a provider of post-quantum encryption and key management solutions, to a five-year contract with a total contract value of $4.125 million spanning both companies’ platforms.

Under the contract, Qanapi will run Reaper inside its own FedRAMP Class D (High) baseline cloud environment, aligned to DoW Impact Level 4 requirements and managed through stackArmor’s compliance platform, The Armory. Reaper will conduct continuous, autonomous red teaming across Qanapi’s infrastructure, with all findings and AI-generated threat intelligence remaining inside Qanapi’s authorization boundary.

Reaper will also automate Qanapi’s Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) assessments and the drafting and submission of Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) to its Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) for FedRAMP compliance, not only writing the POA&Ms but regularly retesting assets within the boundary to validate true and false positives against submitted Security Assessment Reports (SARs), and even generating patches that Qanapi’s team can review and apply.

That deployment model is central to the deal. Assail is the only autonomous offensive security platform that allows customers to deploy the entire Ares or Reaper platform, including the AI models that power them, on premises, in their own private or public clouds, including isolated networks, or on Assail’s SaaS platform. Customers decide where the platform runs and where their data lives, preserving complete AI and data sovereignty. For defense, intelligence, and regulated enterprise customers, Assail considers that a requirement, not a feature.

As part of the agreement, Assail will deploy Qanapi’s full Karst platform, including Karst_Gorge, Karst_Echo, Karst_Fathom, and Karst_SafeShare, along with Enterprise Access to Qanapi’s FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules, across its own environment. The move hardens Assail’s platforms with quantum-resistant algorithms against the full spectrum of cryptographic threats, including Q-Day, the point at which quantum computers become powerful enough to break the public-key encryption most systems rely on today. Adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data with the intent of decrypting it once that capability arrives, putting long-lived government and defense data at risk well before Q-Day itself. By engineering post-quantum, crypto-agile protection into its own stack now, Assail is directly supporting the missions of its combatant command and federal agency customers in meeting Executive Order 14412, “Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks,” and OMB Memorandum M-26-15, both backed by the earlier Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act.

“This contract is a milestone for Assail on two fronts,” said Melissa Knight, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Assail. “Qanapi is running Reaper inside a live FedRAMP Class D (High), IL4-aligned environment, on their infrastructure and under their control, which is exactly how we built the platform to work. And by putting Qanapi’s post-quantum encryption inside our own stack, we are holding ourselves to the same standard our federal customers are now required to meet.”

“Autonomous offensive testing inside our own boundary gives us continuous validation without sensitive data ever leaving our environment,” said Martin Rieger, Chief Solutions Officer at Qanapi. “Assail adopting Karst across their platforms shows what serious quantum readiness looks like. You do not wait for Q-Day; you engineer for it now.”

About Assail, Inc.

Assail is a cybersecurity company building autonomous offensive AI for the modern application stack. Founded by Alissa Knight and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Assail’s flagship platform, Ares, deploys self-evolving AI agents that discover, chain, and exploit vulnerabilities across APIs, mobile apps, and web applications, teaching themselves novel attack techniques through adversarial co-evolution without reliance on human-curated training data. For more information, visit assailai.com.

About Qanapi
Qanapi provides post-quantum encryption, decentralized key management, and AI/LLM data security solutions through one enterprise platform, deployed within customer-owned security boundaries for commercial, regulated, and government environments.

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UK digital pathology provider Source BioScience chooses Sectra to enable seamless pathology collaboration across the NHS

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9 minutes ago

September 21, 2026

LINKÖPING, Sweden, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed an agreement with Source BioScience UK Ltd (Source BioScience) in the UK to deliver its service for advanced share and collaborate workflows. As the first Sectra customer in this domain, Source BioScience will now be able to support NHS organisations that need to send pathology cases to external specialists. This lays the foundation for national telepathology networks in the UK, and for improved access to specialist pathologists.

The service, Sectra Image Exchange Portal (Sectra IEP), is a cloud-based, vendor-neutral platform for exchanging and collaborating around medical images. It is already used by more than 500 institutions, mainly within radiology. Recently, the service has undergone substantial modernisation which now makes it possible for healthcare providers to benefit from new advanced workflow functionality, for the service to be used by specialties other than radiology and for customers to move beyond image sharing to managing workflows between organisations.

“This milestone integration will give the NHS a seamless digital pathway to external specialists, with diagnoses delivered straight back into its own records – reducing turnaround times, easing consultant shortages and tackling reporting backlogs,” says Nick Bills, Healthcare Director at Source BioScience.

Source BioScience is a UK laboratory services provider specialising in histopathology and genomics. Its pathology business supports more than 85 NHS trusts alongside a network of private healthcare clinics, with histopathology delivered from laboratories in Nottingham, Chichester and Cambridge.

NHS pathology services are handling growing case volumes with a limited number of reporting consultants, and increasing subspecialisation means the pathologist best suited to a case is often at another organisation. Sending work to external capacity providers today typically relies on bespoke arrangements between individual laboratories, including the transportation of physical glass slides. This slows reporting times and creates administrative overhead for both the sending and receiving laboratories. With Sectra’s service, a case can be created as a job directly from a laboratory’s worklist, delegated to a receiving organisation, and the completed report returned to the referring organisation’s own records.

“IEP is the backbone of image sharing across the NHS. With our modernised platform, we are introducing advanced workflows between healthcare organisations, and extending that trusted national network into pathology. Connecting trusts directly with external specialists like Source BioScience means cases and completed reports move seamlessly across organisational boundaries. It is a step towards an NHS where expertise is always within reach, and where work moves between organisations as easily as it moves within them,” says Jane Rendall, Managing Director for Sectra UK and Ireland.

The three-year contract was signed in the second quarter of Sectra’s 2026/2027 fiscal year. Up to 60,000 cases are expected during the first year, scaling up in subsequent years.

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askelie® opens its Operational AI Platform to customers and partners

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9 minutes ago

September 21, 2026

New platform makes proven AI capabilities available for MSPs, software vendors and business users to configure and compose

LONDON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — askelie® today announced the launch of its Operational AI Platform, opening the proven technology behind its enterprise AI solutions to MSPs, software vendors and business users.

The platform enables customers and partners to configure and compose AI-powered solutions using proven, reusable askelie capabilities. Rather than building an AI foundation from scratch, organisations can combine existing capabilities to address real business needs — providing a practical route from AI ambition to business value, with faster time to value, lower cost and less risk.

“We’ve spent years using askelie to rapidly deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions. What we’re doing now is opening that capability up,” said Derek Kilroe, CEO and Founder, askelie. “For the first time, MSPs, software vendors and business users can take proven AI capabilities and configure and compose their own solutions for real business operations — without having to build the underlying AI platform themselves.”

Built around Understand • Decide • Act • Control, the platform brings together AI intelligence, data, knowledge, workflows, enterprise integrations, security and governance.

At launch, customers and partners can configure and compose existing capabilities to create and adapt AI-powered Assistants and Automations around specific business needs. The platform provides the foundation for increasingly sophisticated AI applications, including Digital Workers and Autonomous Applications.

“Customers shouldn’t have to assemble an AI technology stack before they can solve a business problem,” said Ian Halliday-Pegg, Chief Product Officer, askelie. “askelie brings the capabilities needed for operational AI together in a platform that can be combined and reused for different needs.”

The platform is designed to be practical, affordable and trusted. Proven, reusable capabilities reduce the need to build enterprise AI from scratch; model choice and consumption-based pricing help control costs; and security, governance, human oversight and auditability are built into the platform.

The platform also enables MSPs to configure and reuse AI-powered services across customers, while software vendors can extend existing products, enhance them with external data and context, and configure new AI-powered capabilities.

The askelie Operational AI Platform is available from 21 September 2026.

For more information, visit www.askelie.io

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Huawei Upgrades Stellar AI WAN Solution to Drive All Intelligence Across Industries

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September 21, 2026

SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled its upgraded Stellar AI WAN Solution. Centered on ultimate computing efficiency and multi-dimensional security, this solution addresses cross-region computing challenges in efficiency, cost, and security, driving all intelligence across industries in the AI era.

Stellar AI WAN for Intelligent Connectivity

Amid the rapid expansion of AI computing power, deploying new compute infrastructure in the West has made remote invocation the new norm. However, traditional networks face three critical issues relating to cross-region computing.

Severe efficiency loss: Invoking computing power across 1,000 km can incur a 37% efficiency loss from a mere 0.073% packet loss.High on-premise costs: Local compute deployment costs from 1 million RMB per branch.Expensive private lines: Enterprises spend around 1.2 million RMB annually on 10G private lines.

To address this, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, introduced the Stellar AI WAN Solution, enabling lossless delivery of computing power over 1,000 km for a local-like remote computing experience. The XH computing-network appliance uses a unique layerwise model partitioning algorithm to run the initial and final layers of inference locally while offloading intermediate layers to remote infrastructure. With the network transmitting only high-dimensional vectors, raw data remains on-premises. The appliance requires just two xPUs to match a traditional 8-xPU setup, slashing xPU costs by 75%. The updated Starnet lossless algorithm cuts bandwidth idle time by over 80% and reduces required bandwidth fivefold, further lowering cross-region computing costs.

Stellar AI WAN for Security

As global security threats intensify, novel vectors like APTs and HNDL attacks continue to emerge. To address these, Huawei provides a three-layer defense for WANs.

Device layer: Intrinsic security boards detect and block intrusions in real time, tracing threats within minutes at over 95% accuracy.Link layer: Built-in QKD delivers robust quantum security without extra devices or fibers, slashing costs by over 60%. An adaptive noise suppression algorithm extends QKD transmission past 80 km.Network layer: APN6-based data fencing enables network-wide control over traffic paths, ensuring data travels exclusively within secure networks with intrinsic security and quantum encryption deployed.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continually upgrade the Stellar AI WAN Solution, deepening its computing-network synergy and multi-dimensional security. Together with partners, Huawei aims to reinforce the intelligent network foundation and accelerate all intelligence across enterprises.

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