Lorica Cybersecurity Awarded a Contract from the Government of Canada to Test its Private Pursuit Platform with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) for R&D Use Cases in Cyber Defence.

TORONTO, ON, October 5, 2023 - Lorica Cybersecurity is pleased to announce they have been awarded a contract from the Government of Canada's Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream program for testing Lorica’s cutting-edge HP-FHE™ technology (High-Performance Fully Homomorphic Encryption) for R&D use cases in cyber defence. This collaboration with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) aims to test and assess Lorica's proprietary Private Pursuit™ Platform within a cyber defence environment.

Lorica's Private Pursuit™ Platform is a state-of-the-art, true end-to-end encrypted compute solution which leverages the company's groundbreaking HP-FHE™ technology to empower enterprises and their partners to harness the full potential of their data while ensuring absolute privacy in Zero Trust environments. The platform enables secure and confidential search, analytics, and machine learning with data remaining encrypted during computation.

Lorica's Private Pursuit™ Platform and its proprietary HP-FHE™ technology deliver substantial speed advantage compared to alternative solutions in the market. This state-of-the-art technology enables enterprises to carry out encrypted batch SQL queries, searching billions of records at an average rate of milliseconds per query, and achieve thousands of encrypted ML inferences per second, all utilizing the power of a single server. A performance that represents an unprecedented milestone in the industry.

About Lorica Cybersecurity:

Lorica Cybersecurity is a premier Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) solution provider, dedicated to empowering organizations to unlock unprecedented value from proprietary data while adhering to global security and privacy regulations.

About The Communications Security Establishment:

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations, and cyber security. CSE gathers foreign signals intelligence to defend Canada’s national security and helps keep the Government of Canada’s information secure. CSE, through the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, also works with industry and academia to protect Canadians from cyber threats.