Patero and Orilla Secure the Industrial Edge

Patero and Orilla Secure the Industrial Edge with Quantum-Safe AI Infrastructure

Delivering the Industry’s First “Edge-to-Anything” Platform Combining Industrial AI and Post-Quantum Cybersecurity

Patero and Orilla announced a strategic partnership to deliver a secure, scalable “edge-to-enterprise” platform for industrial operations.

The combined solution enables organizations to deploy and manage AI at the industrial edge—where data is created, and decisions matter most—ensuring that every data path is protected against both current cyber threats and future quantum-enabled attacks. The combined solution illustrates a critical inflection point for industrial infrastructure. Industrial operators are rapidly deploying AI across distributed environments—oil fields, factories, ports, utilities, and remote infrastructure. However, this transformation is outpacing security.

At the same time, global policy and defense directives are accelerating the need for quantum-resistant security:

U.S. Department of Defense leadership has mandated immediate cryptographic inventory and migration planning across all systems, including OT, IoT, and mission infrastructure
Telecommunications and critical infrastructure sectors are being urged to begin post-quantum migration now, citing risks to networks, devices, and long-lived data
Emerging threats such as “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks are already targeting sensitive industrial and operational data

The gap is clear: AI is moving to the edge—but trust, security, and cryptographic resilience have not kept pace. The Patero–Orilla partnership directly addresses this gap by integrating:

Secure Edge-to-Edge workflows (machine-to-machine, site-to-site)
Secure Edge-to-Cloud pipelines (analytics, AI training, enterprise systems)
Secure Remote Operations (contractors, operators, command centers)

This is a clever strategic alignment that establishes a new category: Quantum-Safe Industrial AI Infrastructure

Customers can now:

Deploy AI without increasing attack surface
Protect long-lived operational data from future quantum decryption
Replace legacy VPNs with secure, session-based quantum tunnels
Achieve crypto-agility aligned with evolving global standards
Accelerate AI ROI with simplified, edge-native infrastructure

Peter Bentley, Patero’s COO, stated, "Industrial infrastructure is becoming intelligent, but without quantum-safe security, it also becomes vulnerable. This partnership ensures that AI-driven operations are not only powerful but also trusted for decades."

The convergence of AI, connectivity, and quantum risk is redefining industrial cybersecurity:

Industrial systems have 15–30-year lifecycles, requiring long-term data protection
Quantum computing advances are expected to break current encryption within that lifecycle window
Governments and regulators are moving from awareness to mandated action

Organizations that act now will define the next generation of secure, intelligent infrastructure.

"AI belongs at the edge. By integrating Patero’s quantum-safe security, we are removing the biggest barrier to industrial AI adoption—trust in the data, the infrastructure, and the outcomes," asserted Lindi Sabloff, CEO Orilla.ai.

The joint Patero–Orilla solution is available immediately for: