Telus to add Qohash's data-security tech to Fuel iX AI

Executive Summary

• Telus Corp. has entered into a strategic partnership with Qohash to integrate Qohash’s patented edge data security technology, Qostodian, into Telus’s generative AI platform, Fuel iX, and Telus Digital’s AI-powered customer service solutions.
• The integration aims to provide real-time visibility, classification, and continuous monitoring of sensitive data within AI workflows, addressing data sovereignty and security requirements for high-assurance sectors such as defense, healthcare, government, and financial services.
• The partnership leverages Telus’s sovereign AI factory (Canada’s fastest supercomputer) combined with Qohash’s technology to ensure data remains protected at the source without being moved to third-party environments, reinforcing Telus’s position as a premier AI provider in Canada.

Key Details

• Partnership Structure: Strategic alliance between Telus Corp. and Qohash.
• Technology Integration: Qohash’s Qostodian platform (patented edge data security) will be embedded into Telus Fuel iX and Telus Digital’s AI solutions.
• Security Capabilities:
  • Real-time identification and classification of sensitive data (personal, health, corporate, financial).
  • Continuous monitoring of AI workflows.
  • Data protection at the source (on-premises, private clouds, or enterprise AI workflows) without moving data to third-party environments.
  • Automated compliance monitoring and reduced risk of data exposure.
• Target Sectors: Defense, healthcare, government, and financial services (high-assurance and sovereignty-sensitive sectors).
• Infrastructure: Utilizes Telus’s sovereign AI factory, recognized as Canada’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer on the global TOP500 list.
• Strategic Goal: Enable "secure-by-design AI" for enterprises, ensuring Canadian operational control from chips to software to networks.

Notable Quotes

• Hesham Fahmy, Chief Information Officer, Telus: "Our partnership with Qohash demonstrates Telus's commitment to always building Canada -- not just by providing sovereign infrastructure, but by partnering with Canadian expert innovators who share our vision of secure and responsible technological independence... This is about enabling secure-by-design AI for the enterprise, with the sovereignty and performance that Canadian organizations demand."
• Jean Le Bouthillier, Chief Executive Officer, Qohash: "Telus is once again demonstrating leadership in sovereign AI by choosing patented Canadian innovation... Together, we're proving that secure, responsible, world-class AI can be built, operated and protected right here in Canada."