ZenmuTech Receives 'Industry Pioneer Award' at EBISION 2026, Advancing Research into Societal Implementation

ZenmuTech Co., Ltd. (ZenmuTech), a company dedicated to data protection and utilization through 'secret sharing technology'—which encrypts and distributes data management—announces that it has received the 'Industry Pioneer Award' at EBISION 2026.

The Industry Pioneer Award honors individuals or teams who have created groundbreaking innovations in the field of E-Business Information Systems and successfully implemented them in practical, real-world applications. Eligible initiatives must demonstrate practical success, measurable impact, and significant contributions to industry standards or practices.

This award recognizes ZenmuTech's research achievements in secret sharing technology 'XCTRT / ZENMU-AONT' and its successful deployment of these technologies into real-world data protection solutions.

Guided by the corporate message 'Data can be freer,' ZenmuTech aims to balance data protection with data utilization. One of its core technologies, ZENMU-AONT, is a data protection method based on All-Or-Nothing Transform (AONT), which splits data into multiple fragments such that the original data cannot be reconstructed unless all fragments are present.

This technology is applied in products such as 'ZENMU Virtual Drive,' which protects data on PCs, and 'ZENMU Engine,' a software development kit (SDK) available for integration into partner companies' products and services. Notably, ZENMU Virtual Drive protects data on PCs through secret sharing, ensuring that data stored on a lost or stolen device is meaningless on its own. This provides organizations with the option of 'Secure FAT PC,' a solution that balances security and usability, complementing traditional environments like VDI and DaaS.

To date, ZenmuTech has provided practical data protection solutions using secret sharing technology to large enterprises, financial institutions, and manufacturing companies. The fact that its technology has moved beyond the research phase and is actively deployed and operated within real enterprise infrastructures is believed to have contributed significantly to this recognition.

At the Industrial & Innovation Session of EBISION 2026, ZenmuTech presented its technological innovations and efforts in societal implementation as an award recipient.

【About the Industry Pioneer Award】

EBISION (International Symposium on E-Business Information Systems Evolution) is an international symposium for research presentations on e-commerce and digital business, as well as the information systems, AI, security, and network technologies that support them.

The Industry Pioneer Award recognizes individuals or teams who have initiated innovative efforts in the field of E-Business Information Systems and successfully implemented and commercialized them. Eligible recipients must demonstrate practical success, measurable impact, and significant contributions to the advancement of industry standards or practices.

EBISION 2026: https://ebision.ifip-wg84.org/2026

Award Recipients List: https://ebision.ifip-wg84.org/2026/roll-of-honors

【About ZenmuTech】

ZenmuTech Co., Ltd.

Headquarters: 5F, Ichigo Shinkawa Building, 2-22-1 Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Founded: March 4, 2014

Representative: Yasuhisa Abe, President & CEO

Business: Providing data protection solutions using secret sharing technology and a secure computation database platform

Stock Code: 338A

URL: https://zenmutech.com/

Secret sharing technology divides data into 'fragments that are meaningless on their own' and manages each fragment in separate environments, thereby enhancing data protection and security.

ZenmuTech develops and sells proprietary products such as ZENMU Engine, which provides secret sharing technology as a software development kit (SDK), and ZENMU Virtual Drive, which prevents data leakage from PCs, and these are widely used by many companies.

Additionally, in the field of secure computation—where data can be computed while remaining encrypted—ZenmuTech provides the secure computation database platform 'QueryAhead®' in collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), aiming for research and societal implementation.