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Baffle vs QuSecure

Baffle sells a no-code solution that masks, tokenizes, and encrypts data. QuSecure is a post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility company that gives an enterprise one place to set and enforce cryptographic policy across its infrastructure. CISO Tribune files both under Encryption, tokenization and key management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Baffle vs QuSecure: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
BaffleBaffle sells a no-code solution that masks, tokenizes, and encrypts data.baffle.ioQuSecureQuSecure is a post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility company that gives an enterprise one place to set and enforce cryptographic policy across its infrastructure.qusecure.com
What it sells
  • Baffle Data Protection[2][3][4][7][10][12][13]A no-code solution that masks, tokenizes, and encrypts data.
  • Baffle Data Protection Services[7][12]Provides static and dynamic data masking for lower environments.
  • Baffle Shield[7]Sits as a proxy layer between production databases and lower environments.
  • QuProtect R3[7][9][10]Platform for cryptographic command and control.
  • QuProtect[1][3][4][7][9][10][11][12][13]Post-quantum cybersecurity software for protecting encrypted communications and data.
  • QuEverywhere[13]Quantum-safe cryptography orchestration for websites and mobile applications.
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Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSan Mateo, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesPrivately held[2][13]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • September 22, 2026QuSecure announced it was named a Cool Vendor in a Gartner report on data security innovations, recognizing its post-quantum cryptography solution.[6]
  • February 11, 2026QuSecure appointed Brian Cunningham as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Growth, as enterprises and government agencies move to post-quantum cryptography.[15]
  • February 11, 2026QuSecure appointed Brian Cunningham, a former Special Operations Commander and Navy SEAL, as EVP Strategy & Growth.[5]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 3, 2026[9]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Baffle sells mainly to financial services organizations, with banks, credit unions, Fintech providers, and insurance companies named. Baffle presents the same product for healthcare providers, payees, and health insurance companies. Baffle provides BYOK and record level encryption aimed at multi-tenant SaaS providers. Baffle says it works with System Integrators to deploy across the organization.From its own pages, the company directs QuProtect at commercial and federal channel partners. The stated aim is to let those partners secure their networks, communication, and data. The site also carries industry pages for financial services, insurance, energy and grid, hospital systems, manufacturing, pharma and life sciences, and state and local government. This is our reading of the pages, and they state no organisation sizes or buyer roles.
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November 9, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Baffle and QuSecure are both filed under Encryption, tokenization and key management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Baffle's primary category is Encryption, tokenization and key management; QuSecure's is Post-quantum cryptography.
  • Baffle lists Baffle Data Protection, Baffle Data Protection Services and Baffle Shield. QuSecure lists QuProtect R3, QuProtect and QuEverywhere.
  • QuSecure is headquartered in San Mateo, United States.
  • QuSecure is privately held.

What it sells: Baffle

What Baffle Data Protection does[2][3][4][7][10][12][13]
Baffle Data Protection is presented for banks, credit unions, Fintech providers, insurance companies, and healthcare providers. The solution requires no-code changes to databases, applications, analytics, or AI/ML pipelines. Baffle says it anonymizes PII and PHI data and limits data exposure through fine-grained role-based access control.
What Baffle Data Protection Services does[7][12]
Baffle Data Protection Services provides static data masking and dynamic data masking. Baffle Data Protection Services protects data on-premises and in the cloud via a no code and low code data security mesh.
What Baffle Shield does[7]
Baffle Shield sits as a proxy layer between production databases and those in lower environments used for development and testing. Data is encrypted on the fly as it moves from the higher to the lower environment. Encryption can be specified on a column level, with different masking algorithms and encryption types based on the data type in each column.

What it sells: QuSecure

What QuProtect R3 does[7][9][10]
QuProtect R3 delivers continuous cryptographic inventory, remediation to TLS 1.3 with ML-KEM, automated certificate rotation, and compliance evidence. QuProtect R3 enables security teams to swap algorithms and push cryptographic policy changes across their entire network from one place. QuProtect R3 operates across cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and sovereign environments and is backwards compatible with legacy infrastructure.
What QuProtect does[1][3][4][7][9][10][11][12][13]
QuProtect is a software-based PQC solution designed to protect encrypted communications and data using quantum secure channels. QuProtect is compatible with all algorithms selected by NIST. QuProtect provides authentication of users, devices, data, and services. QuProtect protects data in transit in datacenters and in the cloud.
What QuEverywhere does[13]
QuEverywhere is a quantum-safe cryptography orchestration product launched by QuSecure. QuEverywhere protects encrypted private data on any website or mobile application with quantum-resilient connections and sessions. QuSecure states that organizations can protect sensitive data wherever it travels without installing software at the endpoint.

Questions about Baffle and QuSecure

What do Baffle and QuSecure sell?
Baffle sells Baffle Data Protection, Baffle Data Protection Services and Baffle Shield. QuSecure sells QuProtect R3, QuProtect and QuEverywhere.
Are Baffle and QuSecure in the same category?
They share Encryption, tokenization and key management. Baffle's primary category is Encryption, tokenization and key management and QuSecure's is Post-quantum cryptography.
Where are Baffle and QuSecure headquartered?
QuSecure is headquartered in San Mateo, United States.
Who owns Baffle and QuSecure?
QuSecure is privately held.
Who are Baffle and QuSecure sold to?
From its own pages, Baffle sells mainly to financial services organizations, with banks, credit unions, Fintech providers, and insurance companies named. From its own pages, the company directs QuProtect at commercial and federal channel partners.
What have Baffle and QuSecure announced recently?
September 22, 2026: QuSecure announced it was named a Cool Vendor in a Gartner report on data security innovations, recognizing its post-quantum cryptography solution.

About Baffle

Baffle sells a no-code solution that masks, tokenizes, and encrypts data. Baffle says its no-code solution provides the security of application-level encryption without the difficulty, time, and expense. Baffle says the solution requires no-code changes to databases, applications, analytics, or AI/ML pipelines.[3]

Baffle describes auditable protection of unstructured and structured data throughout the GenAI pipeline. Baffle says its platform protects data for GenAI as it is ingested into an object store and analyzed in an open-source database. Baffle says the solution supports masking, tokenization, and encryption with role-based access control for individual data values no matter where it is stored and used. Baffle cryptographically protects the data itself as it is created, used, and shared across cloud-native data stores.[1][2][3][5][7]

For financial services, Baffle Data Protection is presented for banks, credit unions, Fintech providers, and insurance companies. For healthcare, Baffle Data Protection is presented for healthcare providers, payees, and health insurance companies. Baffle says the solution anonymizes PII and PHI data and limits data exposure through fine-grained role-based access control. Baffle says healthcare customers can conform with the requirements of HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, NIST, and more. Baffle says financial services customers can conform with the requirements of GDPR, PCI, CCPA, NIST, and more. Baffle says it uses industry standard AES encryption to protect data at the field level so that HIPAA, GDPR and HITRUST requirements can be met. Baffle says its no-code data protection service helped a communications provider achieve PCI compliance by tokenizing sensitive customer data without modifying applications.[3][4][5][8]

Baffle provides BYOK and record level encryption for multi-tenant SaaS. Baffle says its key virtualization layer integrates with HSMs, cloud key managers, and secrets managers to source customer-owned keys. Baffle says its BYOK platform is in production globally with SaaS providers in environments in excess of several billion records. Workiva says it is building AWS KMS key management into the core of its platform, where customers can bring in encryption key material and manage it.[6]

Baffle presents Baffle Data Protection for securing data on the fly as companies modernize applications and workloads for migration to cloud infrastructure. Baffle says data remains protected and compliant in public clouds with encryption keys and access policies that customers control. Baffle says customers can encrypt data before it leaves their premise and migrate to the cloud platform in encrypted form.[8][11]

Baffle Data Security for AWS S3 protects data from human errors causing unintended disclosure. Baffle says data is cryptographically protected before it lands in a S3 bucket, even from admin accounts. Baffle consolidates encryption keys for structured data in databases and unstructured or semi-structured data in object stores. Baffle provides a unified policy engine and admin console that ensures consistency and enforcement across all data stores.[11]

For development and test databases, Baffle Data Protection Services provides static data masking and dynamic data masking. Baffle Data Protection Services protects data on-premises and in the cloud via a no code and low code data security mesh. Baffle Shield sits as a proxy layer between production databases and those in lower environments used for development and testing, and data is encrypted on the fly as it moves from the higher to the lower environment. Baffle says encryption can be specified on a column level, with different masking algorithms and encryption types based on the data type in each column.[5][7][12]

Baffle says its no-code, simple-to-deploy security platform takes a data-centric approach at cloud scale without any performance impact or changes to applications. Baffle says it is integrated with AWS, Azure, IBM, and GCP. Baffle says Baffle Data Protection already protects more than 100 billion records at companies worldwide, from Fortune 25 to SMB. Baffle says it works with System Integrators to quickly deploy across the organization.[5][7][8][13]

Baffle on the record

Sources

Baffle full record

  1. [1]baffle.ioBaffle · baffle.io · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Baffle data protectionBaffle · baffle.io · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Protect Against Patient Data Theft with BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Cloud Data Protection - PCI Compliance Tokenization - BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Data Tokenization, De-Identification, Database Encryption - BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Simplified BYOK for SaaS ProvidersBaffle · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Data Masking, Sharing in Lower Environments - BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Data Protection Service - Baffle Solutions by IndustryBaffle · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Baffle Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
  10. [10]AWS Database Migration Services Support - BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Baffle Data Security for Amazon S3 - BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]PCI Compliance Tokenization, PCI DSS Tokenization - BaffleBaffle · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Baffle - Making Data Breaches Irrelevant Through Data ProtectionBaffle · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A

QuSecure full record

  1. [1]qusecure.comQuSecure · qusecure.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Accenture invests in qusecure to protect against future quantum threats with crypto agilityAccenture · newsroom.accenture.com · published January 22, 2025 · Tier B
  3. [3]MSSP Alert: Arrow Electronics, QuSecure Partner for Post-Quantum CybersecurityMSSP Alert · published January 26, 2023 · Tier A
  4. [4]Crypto-Agility for Critical Systems | QuSecureQuSecure · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]QuSecure Appoints Brian Cunningham as EVP Strategy & Growth to Scale Federal and Commercial Adoption of Post-Quantum SecurityBusiness Wire · published February 11, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]QuSecure Recognized in the Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Security Report for its Post-Quantum Cryptography SolutionBusiness Wire · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]QuSecure Awarded Follow-On U.S. Air Force Contract for Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Solutions to Strengthen National DefenseQuSecure · published January 8, 2025 · Tier A
  8. [8]About QuSecure | The Company Leading Crypto-AgilityQuSecure · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]QuSecure Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Security | QuSecureQuSecure · published September 22, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]QuSecure on 3 Ways to Accelerate Your Quantum SecurityQuSecure · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]NIST Addressing Future Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Threats Today | QuSecureAmerican Security Today · published July 6, 2022 · Tier A
  12. [12]Arrow Electronics Signs Agreement with US-based Company | QuSecureGEO SPATIAL WORLD · published January 27, 2023 · Tier A
  13. [13]QuSecure Achieves Post-Quantum Encryption BreakthroughQuSecure · published January 18, 2023 · Tier A
  14. [14]Be Quantum Safe while Achieving HR 7535 Compliance with QuSecure | QuSecureQuSecure · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]QuSecure Appoints Brian Cunningham as EVP Strategy & Growth to Scale Federal and Commercial Adoption of Post-Quantum SecurityQuSecure Inc. · published February 11, 2026 · Tier A

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