Embedded Computing Design

Brette Mullenaux

Product Marketer, Secure Computing Group

Microchip Technology

Brette Mullenaux is a marketing lead for Microchip Technology's secure computing group, where she helps manage the secure product portfolio. Over the past four years, she has driven global marketing strategies for embedded security solutions, fostered customer engagement, and developed educational content including guidance on authentication for IoT, disposable, and accessory devices. Her work centers on propagating the use of Microchip's secure authentication ICs, platform root of trust controllers, and provisioning services to enable end-to-end security across a broad range of devices and markets. Mullenaux holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Arizona State University

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Preparing Embedded Systems for the Post-Quantum Security Transition - Blog

September 08, 2026
Brette Mullenaux Microchip Technology  

For years, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) was viewed as a future concern: a problem to solve once quantum computers became powerful enough to threaten today's public-key encryption methods. That perspective is rapidly changing. Long-lived embedded systems, evolving cybersecurity requirements and the risk that sensitive data is already being collected for future decryption are making quantum readiness a present-day design concern.

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