The Identity Thread by Entrust

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.

In this "boots to the ground" podcast episode, Samantha Mabey is joined by Tom Patterson, Quantum Security Global Lead at Accenture, to discuss some of the key steps organizations should be taking to prepare themselves in advance of the quantum threat.

In this podcast, we’ll delve into some of the opportunities, risks, and differing approaches to digital government around the globe, including the role of AI, regulation, and big tech in the creation and protection of trusted citizen identities.

In this podcast episode we look at the dark side of generative AI – the destructive ways criminals are utilizing it to create deepfakes, optimizing phishing techniques and creating synthetic IDs at scale. We also take a look at new updated stats, in a special RSAC edition of Onfido's (an Entrust company) Identity Fraud Report and discuss how CISOs/CROs can set their companies up for success in the fight against these new security threats.

• The use of biometrics has become a flash point for discussion in efforts to regulate AI around the globe. While different biometric use cases present with different risk profiles, the use of biometrics to protect individual consumers and citizens from identity theft and fraud should be a core component of any organization’s deep fake defense strategy. In this podcast, we’ll delve into the legal, ethical, and even moral considerations for the continued safe development and use of AI-enabled biometrics.

This podcast examines the raging debate around not only if and how to regulate AI, but also when and by whom. Our experts cover such topics as the potential risks of AI, different regulatory approaches to AI, and the need for global AI governance. Guest experts include Jenny Carmichael, VP Compliance at Entrust and Stephanie Derdouri, VP Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance at Entrust.