Security Platform, a company specialising in edge device security, said on Thursday it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with The Peach, which supports the global defence supply chain with NDAA-compliant, non-Chinese drone systems. The two companies will jointly develop a security-hardened drone applying post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and work to find customers in global markets.

The Peach and Security Platform will combine their technologies by integrating an international standard cryptographic module certified under U.S. NIST FIPS 140-2 and PQC technology into the Papy Drone series of expendable drones. They plan to introduce a security-hardened drone that can fundamentally block drone hijacking and route manipulation.

They agreed to cooperate on jointly developing a security-hardened drone avionics system that complies with international security standards. They will apply a PQC cryptographic module for drone communications security. They will also build a lightweight chip-based trusted execution environment (TEE) and secure boot environment, cooperate to be listed on the U.S. Department of Defense's Blue UAS Cleared List, and jointly market for entry into global defence and public markets such as the United States and Singapore.

Hae-yong Kim (김해용), head of The Peach's research institute, said security technology to respond to hacking or jamming was essential as drones play a larger role in modern warfare. He said the cooperation with Security Platform would provide the safest drone solution in the global defence market.

Kyung-mo Kim (김경모), head of Security Platform's research institute, said the core of the cooperation was optimising and applying post-quantum cryptography to lightweight edge devices such as drones. He said a security architecture that meets international standards would raise the reliability of K-drones to a global level.