In this podcast, we’ll delve into the key cybersecurity challenges associated with the arrival of Q-Day, what is needed to attain and maintain a Zero Trust strategy in the post quantum era and offer practical guidance on how to facilitate the cryptographic transition to post quantum cryptography (PQC). 

From energy and wastewater treatment to communications, banking, and beyond, critical infrastructure are those assets, systems, and networks that support our daily lives. Any compromise to these resources, whether malicious or unintended, could have debilitating national security, economic, and public safety consequences.

Yet, our critical infrastructure remains vulnerable. And in an era of rising geopolitical tensions, it is also an easy and attractive target for nation state attackers. Solar Winds and more recently Salt Typhoon are two of many examples.

In this podcast, we explore the where’s and why’s of critical infrastructure vulnerability and associated compliance concerns, along with some strategies and best practices to improve critical infrastructure security and resilience.

Driven by technology innovation, divergent regulatory philosophies across geographies, and different industry dynamics, the global regulatory landscape continues to complexify creating a compliance and governance challenge for organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At the outset of 2025, fast evolving areas of compliance legislation include AI, biometrics, privacy, cyber resilience, and data management.

In this podcast, we’ll delve into some of the challenges facing organizations, CISOs, and compliance decision makers as they seek to navigate this ever-changing regulatory landscape, along with some of the strategies being applied to manage compliance.

At the outset of 2025, there is a natural convergence of payments and identity happening that is transforming the consumer and citizen experience.

Central to both is trusted digital identity which has become the cornerstone of our digital universe.

In this podcast, we’ll delve into some of the opportunities, risks, and challenges facing payments and identity players including digital wallet adoption, fraud intensification, quantum computing, and biometrics.

Among many other milestones, 2024 was the year generative AI went mainstream, identity fraud went digital first, and the first post quantum cryptography (PQC) standards were issued by NIST. As we look ahead to 2025, which cyber trends will gain momentum? And which will fall to the wayside? In this podcast, we’ll delve into our top cyber predictions for 2025 including the possible evolution of AI, quantum computing, digital identity, and regulation.

In this episode of the Entrust Cybersecurity Institute Podcast, we delve into the evolving landscape of cybercrime, highlighting how advancements in technology, particularly GenAI and biometrics, are ending the era of amateur cybercriminals. Drawing insights from the 2025 Identity Fraud Report, now in its 6th year, we explore the rise of cybercrime-as-a-service, the increasing sophistication of attacks, and strategies to combat these threats with a Zero Trust approach and AI-powered solutions.

Quantum computing will revolutionize industries and break conventional encryption, threatening the world’s digital economy and upending global power dynamics. With “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” style attacks that target long-life data and devices, along with the availability of new PQC standards from NIST, we are at the dawn of the PQ era. In this podcast episode, we delve into global PQ preparedness, post-quantum cryptography, and how to start your PQC migration today.

Identity is essential to accessing education, employment, financial services, and much more. But, with disruptive technology forces like AI, biometrics, and quantum computing on the horizon, is it time to reimagine the future of trusted identity? This episode delves into the opportunities, risks, and differing approaches shaping the future of trusted identity including the impact of AI and quantum computing, along with the role of governments, standards bodies, and big tech.

In light of NIST's recent PQC standards, we revisit our conversation with Brian LaMacchia, a cryptography expert and former Microsoft engineer, on the history and evolution of PQC. Tune in to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of this emerging field.

What if you could ditch your passwords and still have a secure and seamless online experience? That's the vision of the FIDO Alliance, a group of industry leaders who are developing standards and certifications for passwordless and phishing-resistant authentication solutions. In this podcast, our host, Ken Kadet, talks to Andrew Shikiar, the executive director and CEO of the FIDO Alliance, about how these solutions work, why they are needed, and what the future of authentication looks like.