QANplatform Becomes IBM Business Partner
Insider Brief
- QANplatform announced its partnership with IBM as an official Business Partner, introducing the QAN Q-Cluster, a tamper-proof, self-auditing system that combines AI-driven log anomaly detection with quantum-resistant blockchain technology.
- The QAN Q-Cluster leverages IBM technologies, including Fusion HCI, Red Hat OpenShift, watsonx, and Guardium QuantumSafe, to ensure secure log integrity and post-quantum readiness for sectors like government, finance, healthcare, and supply chains.
- Designed to address vulnerabilities in traditional logging systems, the QAN Q-Cluster records all events in an append-only blockchain, ensuring auditability and protection against evidence tampering, with applications spanning classified data monitoring, regulatory compliance, and sensitive transaction safeguarding.
- Image: (from left to right: 1) Silur, Co-Founder and AI lead of QANplatform, 2) Johann Polecsak, Co-Founder and CTO of QANplatform, 3) Kevin Redmond, Vice President IBM Technology Group, 4) Igor Pravica, General Manager IBM Central Eastern Territory, 5) Arpad Pikethy, IBM Country Leader
PRESS RELEASE —QANplatform, the Layer 1 blockchain platform, is proud to announce its partnership with IBM as an official IBM Business Partner. We are introducing QAN Q-Cluster, a tamper-proof and self-auditing system that utilizes AI for log anomaly detection and incorporates quantum-resistant blockchain technology for provable durability and persistence. This collaboration highlights our commitment to providing secure and innovative solutions that address real-world business challenges powered by IBM technology.
According to IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach has reached $4.88 million per incident, representing a 10% increase from the previous year. Breaches involving data stored across multiple environments, including public and private clouds, averaged over $5 million and took an average of 283 days to identify and contain. One in three breaches involved shadow data, highlighting how the proliferation of data complicates tracking and safeguarding efforts. This underscores the critical need for robust cybersecurity measures across all sectors.
In the event of a cybersecurity breach, experienced hackers often target logging systems to delete or alter evidence of the breach itself. After a successful attack, identifying or proving the incident becomes impossible or significantly more difficult. While log aggregators do exist, they
can be compromised in the same way. When this happens, the victim has no way to differentiate between genuinely created and aggregated logs and those that have been maliciously altered, potentially creating a false impression that the system remained secure.
QANplatform’s use case was developed to address this specific problem. QAN Q-Cluster provides 100% confidence about cluster integrity. It is mathematically proven and impossible to breach the cluster and removing evidence traces of the act. Every malicious as well as authenticated cluster operations are logged to an append-only, quantum-resistant blockchain which is guaranteed to be tamper-proof, ensuring full auditability.
The core solution consists of five custom components that mainly monitor and gather Kubernetes events. These components cache and aggregate the events for AI-based analysis. Additionally, a storage daemon ensures that both the raw and processed log data remain intact by utilizing QANplatform, a quantum-resistant, enterprise-grade hybrid blockchain platform.
QAN Q-Cluster will be available incorporating several IBM components as well: IBM Fusion HCI, a stable hardware foundation for the solution; Red Hat OpenShift, a robust operating system and orchestration platform for the long term; IBM watsonx, an AI and data platform designed for businesses; and IBM Guardium QuantumSafe, which provides understandable insights into the infrastructure’s post-quantum readiness.
Users in the government, banking and finance, healthcare, and supply chain sectors can benefit
from QANplatform’s QAN Q-Cluster by effectively handling and monitoring classified information
and operational logs. This platform safeguards sensitive transaction data and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements. Additionally, it protects user data, maintains audit trails, and upholds integrity and security across complex IT infrastructures.
Kevin Redmond, Vice President IBM Technology Group, added: “AI is a prominent technology trend, and IBM stands at the forefront with our open-source AI models and enterprise platforms like IBM watsonx. It is encouraging to witness the integration of AI and quantum-resistant blockchain technologies to effectively process business data and tackle real-world challenges.”
Igor Pravica, General Manager IBM Central Eastern Territory, commented: “It’s good to see IBM’s innovative technologies being utilized in such a well-focused use case that integrates both IBM hardware and software solutions. We look forward to fostering more IBM business partnerships like this one.”
Arpad Pikethy, IBM Country Leader, added: “It’s great to see a complex use case where robust IBM solutions and innovative technologies like AI converge with a quantum-resistant blockchain.”
Silur, Co-Founder and AI lead of QANplatform, commented: “As a member of two working groups of the European Commission’s EU AI Office with Defaince, I’m excited to work on integrating next-generation AI security measures into QAN Q-Cluster, ensuring it complies with the new EU Council AI Risk Guidelines.”
Johann Polecsak, Co-Founder and CTO of QANplatform, added: “I am thrilled to announce this important milestone in our journey. Collaborating with the international teams of IBM and Arrow has been invaluable in the integration process of the solution. The fact that our enterprise blockchain operates on IBM Fusion HCI opens up a wide range of future possibilities for innovation and growth of applications running on QANplatform.”