Gorilla unveils quantum-safe SD-WAN to boost global security

Gorilla Technology has launched a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) designed to address the security challenges posed by advances in quantum computing.

The new PQC initiative is integrated into the Gorilla Intelligent Network Director platform and is described as the first of its kind to deploy hybrid key exchange methods using both Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) and Kyber algorithms. These combine to provide what the company states is both crypto-agility and long-term confidentiality for data, with resistance to potential attacks from quantum-powered cyber threats. According to Gorilla Technology, Dilithium-based digital signatures are employed to secure node authentication and ensure the integrity of the control plane, thereby protecting orchestration and data channels within network architectures.

The Intelligent Network Director leverages NIST-approved PQC algorithms-specifically CRYSTALS-Kyber for key exchange and CRYSTALS-Dilithium for digital signatures. This ensures that the framework underlying Gorilla's SD-WAN meets the demands of hybrid, multi-cloud, and sovereign network environments, such as those underpinning both national AI infrastructure and digital platforms.

Quantum-safe imperative

"In today's world, quantum-safe networking is an operational imperative," said Dr. Rajesh Natarajan, Chief Technology Officer at Gorilla Technology. "With the Gorilla Intelligent Network Director, we are embedding post-quantum resilience directly into the connectivity fabric that powers AI platforms and sovereign clouds. This initiative puts important national security and digital sovereignty measures in place, and positions Gorilla to deliver on a key priority for governments around the globe."

The upgrades come as governments globally prepare for the introduction of standards such as the United States' Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0), which is scheduled for phased implementation between 2025 and 2030. Gorilla Technology has stated that compliance with CNSA 2.0, along with frameworks such as NIST SP 800-208 and UK NCSC transition guidelines, is a core element of its strategy, with the aim of ensuring that deployments meet or surpass security requirements set for the 2030-2033 compliance window.

Strategic initiatives

Gorilla's efforts in quantum-safe networking build on broader company projects in AI and data centre infrastructure. These include the USD $1.4 billion Southeast Asia network agreement with Freyr Technology AI, in addition to ongoing public safety and digital infrastructure deployments in Thailand and Taiwan. The company has extended post-quantum security solutions to government networks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as Thailand, setting up a standards-based design intended to support cryptographic agility. Such offerings are expected by the company to drive recurring revenues over several years as clients transition to post-quantum security frameworks.

With the new SD-WAN, Gorilla Technology highlights several purported benefits for customers:

• Crypto-agility, facilitating future upgrade paths as PQC standards change
• End-to-end protection, ensuring quantum-safe encryption from data centre core to edge devices
• Regulatory readiness, supporting mandated security frameworks and standards

"Our mission is to safeguard and harden every connection by default," added Dr. Natarajan. "As AI platforms become the new critical infrastructure, the Gorilla Intelligent Network Director ensures that data, control and identity remain quantum-safe from the core to the edge."

In support of widespread adoption, Gorilla is also setting up Quantum-Safe Readiness Labs in Taiwan and India. These laboratories are intended to provide government bodies, telecom operators, and enterprise clients with environments to validate hybrid key exchange mechanisms, simulate quantum migration strategies, and employ reference blueprints for transforming national network security frameworks.

Gorilla Technology states these developments are part of its ongoing strategy to address the risks posed by quantum computing to digital security paradigms and to provide practical solutions for the evolution of global network infrastructure.