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AKMSecure

Our Story

AKM was founded to solve a problem most in the cybersecurity industry have accepted as unsolvable: how to embed true Zero Trust into every transaction — without relying on legacy Public Key Infrastructure, excessive overhead, or fragile workarounds.
With a one-time setup, no need for external validation, and zero ongoing maintenance, AKM flips the cybersecurity model from reactive to resilient. And for environments requiring extra hardening, our low-cost hardware companion module brings added protection — with a path to further scalability via FPGA or ASIC.
Our founding team came together with over 100 years of combined experience across aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, and embedded systems. We've built avionics for Airbus, security protocols for Boeing, hardened control systems for global rail networks, and contributed to international standards like IEC 62443 and CENELEC TS-50701. We saw firsthand how existing solutions — particularly PKI — fail to scale, struggle to comply, and leave even air-gapped systems vulnerable.

So we built something BETTER.

AKMSecure (Autonomous Key Management) is a quantum-resilient cybersecurity platform that eliminates the need for traditional certificates and central authorities. It's the only software solution that fulfills all tenets of the CIA Triad — Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability — at the frame level. Our patented architecture ensures every endpoint, every transmission, and every device is authenticated, encrypted, and secure by design. It works offline or online, in a factory, on a satellite, or under the sea.
Today, AKM is trusted by early adopters in energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and defense. We are shaping the future of secure systems — replacing complexity with clarity, fragility with confidence, and assumptions with proof.

This is the cybersecurity rewrite the industry has been waiting for.

AI-Enhanced Security

AI-Enhanced, Quantum-Resilient Security

AKM is an AI-enhanced, quantum-resilient platform that revolutionizes the way encryption credentials are managed—embedding Zero Trust principles into every message, device, file, and network it protects. This ensures end-to-end system integrity and robust, autonomous security.

A Decentralized Approach to Trust

At the core of AKM is a distributed architecture that delivers secure communication credentials without relying on traditional certificate authorities. Each local AKM deployment includes an autonomous management unit called the AKM Management Module (AMM), which governs individual AKM Trust Relationships (ATRs). The AMM continuously collects and analyzes data from connected devices, enabling real-time anomaly detection, issue identification, and automated remediation based on predefined policies.

Intelligent, Autonomous, and Efficient

By integrating AI directly into the AMM, AKM further enhances its ability to maintain, monitor, and optimize network operations without human oversight. Housed in a tamper-resistant, standalone module, the AMM offloads processing from endpoints while leveraging its own advanced memory and compute capabilities. This results in increased efficiency, reduced costs, and strengthened security across the entire infrastructure.

Our Team

The Minds Behind AKM

Brian McGowan

Brian McGowan

Chief Executive Officer

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Bart Shields

Bart Shields

Founder, Chief Technology Officer

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Ian Benedict, CPA

Ian Benedict, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

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Doug McLean

Doug McLean

Chief Product Officer

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Larry Butler

Larry Butler

Founder & Chief Engineer

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Klemens Geiger

Klemens Geiger

Chief Compliance Officer

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Chase Exon, Esq.

Chase Exon, Esq.

General Counsel

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