CyberRidge for Financial Services
Protect today’s data from tomorrow’s decryption
CyberRidge Carmel is a Photonic Layer Security system for the links between a financial institution’s sites. It spreads, encrypts and buries the optical signal below the noise floor, so replication, backup and disaster-recovery traffic on carrier fiber cannot be recorded today and decrypted later. It adds zero latency and works alongside PQC, TLS and IPsec.
Your data’s confidentiality has to outlive the quantum deadline
Protection on your weakest links
Replication, backup, disaster recovery, and inter-site traffic often run over carrier fiber you don’t control. Protect them where interception happens: on the fiber.
Demonstrate your quantum readiness
Boards and regulators are asking how quantum risk is being managed. Carmel gives you a monitored control on data-in-transit that you can point to now.
Coverage while migration runs
Inventorying and migrating to PQC cryptography across a financial institution takes years. Ensure a faster baseline protection by rolling Carmel out on your most sensitive links.
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How Carmel fits your network
Protect the data, bury the signal
The signal is spread across a multi-terahertz spectrum, encrypted and buried below the optical noise floor.
Sub-second key changes
Optical keys change multiple times per second and travel embedded in light, not stored digitally on the link.
Layered with existing cryptography
Complements PQC, TLS and IPsec in a defense-in-depth architecture.
Fits your security operations
Monitoring and alerts feed into the SIEM, SOC and IT service tools your teams already use.
Frequently asked questions
How can financial institutions protect inter-site links from harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks?
Replication, backup, disaster-recovery and inter-site traffic often run over carrier fiber the institution does not control. CyberRidge Carmel protects that traffic on the fiber itself: the signal is spread, encrypted and buried below the optical noise floor, so it cannot be recorded today and decrypted later.
Does physical-layer encryption add latency to financial networks?
CyberRidge Carmel adds zero latency to the link, because it operates on the optical signal rather than processing packets.
How does Carmel fit alongside a PQC migration?
Carmel complements PQC, TLS and IPsec in a defense-in-depth architecture. Inventorying and migrating cryptography across a financial institution takes years; Carmel can be rolled out on the most sensitive links first to provide baseline protection while that work continues.
Can security teams monitor Carmel-protected links with their existing tools?
Yes. Monitoring and alerts feed into the SIEM, SOC and IT service tools security teams already use, with central visibility of protected links through Trekker NMS.
Evidence and further reading
A clip-on coupler can copy an entire fiber link
In a CyberRidge demonstration, a clip-on optical coupler that sells online for a few hundred dollars silently captured the full data stream of a live fiber link. No fiber was cut and no alarm was triggered.
Read about the demonstrationGartner Cool Vendor 2025
CyberRidge has been named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors in Data Security, 2025 report.
Read the announcementHow to mitigate the risk of HNDL attacks
A guide to Harvest Now, Decrypt Later attacks: how traffic is harvested from fiber, and how to protect data in transit.
Read the guide