Canadian security company providing quantum-safe cryptography and migration services.
Operating context
ISARA's current Advance positioning addresses continuous cryptographic posture: discovering deployed cryptography, assessing configurations against current and post-quantum standards, prioritizing business exposure and routing remediation through existing security workflows. The Cybersecurity Stars organizer names Advance its 2026 Critical Infrastructure winner, which corroborates recognition without proving certification or deployment scale. Separately, TOPPAN's April 2026 release describes a closed-testbed demonstration with NICT and ISARA of a second crypto-agile root certificate. The October 2025–March 2026 trial preserved smart-card authentication and web access while moving between classical and post-quantum algorithms. These are complementary evidence layers: a marketed operational-inventory platform and a demonstrated certificate-migration technique, with production integration and performance still customer-specific. Radiate remains a separate developer offering: its June 2026 version 4.1 guide documents ML-DSA signatures and ML-KEM key encapsulation through library APIs and examples.
A Waterloo cryptographic migration supplier pairing continuous posture-management software with partner-verified certificate-transition research; awards and testbed results should not substitute for deployment evidence.
Interpretation of the public record. Not qualification, endorsement or evidence of buyer interest.
ISARA separates post-quantum software integration from cryptographic discovery and migration planning. Radiate is a developer library offered in Embedded and Standard variants; its June 2026 version 4.1 guide documents ML-DSA signatures and ML-KEM key encapsulation. Advance inventories cryptographic configurations and prioritizes exposure and remediation. NICT’s April 2026 account describes a TOPPAN/ISARA smart-card testbed using a second crypto-agile root certificate to maintain authentication during migration. That proof of concept does not establish a general production deployment.
Evidence of maturity
Commercial library and posture-management offerings with documented APIs. A separate partner testbed demonstrated certificate migration; standardized algorithms alone do not confer whole-product validation.
Commercial availability
Licensing and integration by enquiry. Confirm target platform, cryptographic parameters, interoperability, discovery coverage, performance and the required assurance or validation basis.
Core features
Radiate 4.1 ML-DSA and ML-KEM developer interfaces
Embedded and Standard Radiate variants
Advance cryptographic inventory, posture analysis and remediation planning
NICT/TOPPAN testbed demonstration of a second crypto-agile root certificate
Recorded applications
Defence and security review
Remote and complex operations
Cryptographic inventory and migration prioritization
TOPPAN Holdings and Japan's NICT reported a successful testbed demonstration using ISARA second-root-certificate technology to transition an IC-card certificate-authority environment toward post-quantum cryptography without stopping the existing system; the test ran from October 2025 through March 2026.
The publicly described Post-quantum cryptography offering may be relevant to monitoring or remote-operation use cases; this is a derived mapping for reviewer assessment.
Reviewed connections indicate possible relevance based on public evidence. They do not indicate procurement direction, eligibility, endorsement or customer interest.
Questions for a first conversation
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Which production applications, remediation integrations and interoperability results demonstrate the transition from cryptographic inventory to a completed migration?
The Advance announcement describes an operational workflow, while TOPPAN's evidence concerns a closed-network trial. Neither inspected source provides a named production acceptance report for the combined workflow.
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ISARA describes Advance as continuously discovering cryptography, checking current/PQC standards, prioritizing business risk and routing remediation into existing operational systems. Waterloo HQ and mediarelations@isara.com are published. The company announces a2026 Critical Infrastructure category award.
ISARA describes Advance as continuously discovering cryptography, checking current/PQC standards, prioritizing business risk and routing remediation into existing operational systems. Waterloo HQ and mediarelations@isara.com are published. The company announces a2026 Critical Infrastructure category award.
Supports: Profile · operating context
ISARA describes Advance as continuously discovering cryptography, checking current/PQC standards, prioritizing business risk and routing remediation into existing operational systems. Waterloo HQ and mediarelations@isara.com are published. The company announces a2026 Critical Infrastructure category award.
ISARA describes Advance as continuously discovering cryptography, checking current/PQC standards, prioritizing business risk and routing remediation into existing operational systems. Waterloo HQ and mediarelations@isara.com are published. The company announces a2026 Critical Infrastructure category award.
ISARA describes Advance as continuously discovering cryptography, checking current/PQC standards, prioritizing business risk and routing remediation into existing operational systems. Waterloo HQ and mediarelations@isara.com are published. The company announces a2026 Critical Infrastructure category award.
ISARA describes Advance as continuously discovering cryptography, checking current/PQC standards, prioritizing business risk and routing remediation into existing operational systems. Waterloo HQ and mediarelations@isara.com are published. The company announces a2026 Critical Infrastructure category award.
The April 9, 2026 release reports an October 2025–March 2026 testbed trial using ISARA's second crypto-agile root certificate, TOPPAN smart cards and NICT's quantum network to transition between classical ECDSA and PQC ML-DSA while maintaining authentication/web access. It is a closed-network demonstration, not production adoption.
Supports: Profile · executive relevance summary
Source location: executiveRelevanceSummary
The April 9, 2026 release reports an October 2025–March 2026 testbed trial using ISARA's second crypto-agile root certificate, TOPPAN smart cards and NICT's quantum network to transition between classical ECDSA and PQC ML-DSA while maintaining authentication/web access. It is a closed-network demonstration, not production adoption.
The organizer names ISARA Advance Best Critical Infrastructure Platform2026. The profile describes agentless discovery and workflow-integrated remediation; the award is editorial recognition, not a security certification or customer acceptance.
The mapped legal identity, Canadian presence, product and independent testbed evidence is sufficient for private reviewer consideration of the editorial template.
The April 9, 2026 release reports an October 2025–March 2026 testbed trial using ISARA's second crypto-agile root certificate, TOPPAN smart cards and NICT's quantum network to transition between classical ECDSA and PQC ML-DSA while maintaining authentication/web access. It is a closed-network demonstration, not production adoption.
Supports: Profile · current activity
TOPPAN and NICT report a successful October 2025 to March 2026 PQC migration testbed using ISARA second-root-certificate technology without stopping the existing system.
The April 9, 2026 release reports an October 2025–March 2026 testbed trial using ISARA's second crypto-agile root certificate, TOPPAN smart cards and NICT's quantum network to transition between classical ECDSA and PQC ML-DSA while maintaining authentication/web access. It is a closed-network demonstration, not production adoption.
Supports: Profile · current activity as of
TOPPAN published the bounded PQC testbed result on 2026-04-09.
The April 9, 2026 release reports an October 2025–March 2026 testbed trial using ISARA's second crypto-agile root certificate, TOPPAN smart cards and NICT's quantum network to transition between classical ECDSA and PQC ML-DSA while maintaining authentication/web access. It is a closed-network demonstration, not production adoption.
The April 9, 2026 release reports an October 2025–March 2026 testbed trial using ISARA's second crypto-agile root certificate, TOPPAN smart cards and NICT's quantum network to transition between classical ECDSA and PQC ML-DSA while maintaining authentication/web access. It is a closed-network demonstration, not production adoption.
ISARA describes Advance as an agentless cryptographic inventory, posture-scoring and remediation-prioritization product across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · core features
ISARA Advance markets agentless-first cryptographic inventory, configuration/risk scoring and remediation planning across hybrid environments; discovery coverage is integration-specific, not automatic replacement of vulnerable encryption.
ISARA Advance markets agentless-first cryptographic inventory, configuration/risk scoring and remediation planning across hybrid environments; discovery coverage is integration-specific, not automatic replacement of vulnerable encryption.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · summary
ISARA Advance markets agentless-first cryptographic inventory, configuration/risk scoring and remediation planning across hybrid environments; discovery coverage is integration-specific, not automatic replacement of vulnerable encryption.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · maturity
ISARA Advance markets agentless-first cryptographic inventory, configuration/risk scoring and remediation planning across hybrid environments; discovery coverage is integration-specific, not automatic replacement of vulnerable encryption.
ISARA Radiate is offered in Embedded and Standard variants as a quantum-safe developer library; performance and MISRA-C claims remain supplier assertions. Advance is a separate discovery/posture product.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · core features
ISARA Radiate is offered in Embedded and Standard variants as a quantum-safe developer library; performance and MISRA-C claims remain supplier assertions. Advance is a separate discovery/posture product.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · summary
ISARA Radiate is offered in Embedded and Standard variants as a quantum-safe developer library; performance and MISRA-C claims remain supplier assertions. Advance is a separate discovery/posture product.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · maturity
ISARA Radiate is offered in Embedded and Standard variants as a quantum-safe developer library; performance and MISRA-C claims remain supplier assertions. Advance is a separate discovery/posture product.
ISARA describes Advance as an agentless-first cryptographic discovery and posture-scoring product, and Radiate as supporting hybrid ML-KEM and ML-DSA certificate workflows for systems and devices.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · summary
The official capability material supports the named Post-quantum cryptography offering and the bounded operational description prepared for reviewer consideration.
The June 2026 Radiate 4.1 guide documents ML-DSA digital signatures and ML-KEM key encapsulation through library APIs and examples; this establishes a developer-tool offering, not customer acceptance.
NICT April9 2026 reports TOPPAN/ISARA proof of concept for a second crypto-agile root certificate in a smart-card testbed, preserving existing authentication during classical/PQC coexistence; not general production rollout.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · summary
NICT April9 2026 reports TOPPAN/ISARA proof of concept for a second crypto-agile root certificate in a smart-card testbed, preserving existing authentication during classical/PQC coexistence; not general production rollout.
Supports: Post-quantum cryptography · core features
NICT April9 2026 reports TOPPAN/ISARA proof of concept for a second crypto-agile root certificate in a smart-card testbed, preserving existing authentication during classical/PQC coexistence; not general production rollout.
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