The Cybersecurity Institute Podcast, by Entrust

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.

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.

In this episode, our guests Samantha Mabey, Entrust Director of Digital Security Solutions, and Tushar Tambay, VP of Product Development at Entrust, unravel the risks of misconfigured systems, interoperability gaps, and compliance lapses in IT security. Join us as we discuss the diverse array of cybersecurity tools and the necessity of routine discovery checks to avert breaches. We also dive into the Zero Trust journey, discovering how organizations can progressively bolster their security posture.

AI, quantum computing, digital identities, and regulation were hot topics in 2023 and will continue to evolve and increase in focus in the coming year. Join host Ken Kadet as he and guests Jordan Avnaim (CISO, Entrust) and Greg Wetmore (VP of Software Development, Entrust) look at the trends that we expect to shape the cybersecurity landscape in 2024.

Last year we made three predictions about what would happen in the world of cybersecurity. How did we do? Join host Ken Kadet and guests Anudeep Parhar, Greg Wetmore, and Mark Ruchie for a discussion on how 2023 took shape in both expected and surprising ways.

The world is relying more on artificial intelligence to improve the way we do business, serve citizens, and live our lives. How can we protect AI from itself and the forces that would put the potential benefits it creates at risk? Join host Ken Kadet and guests Greg Wetmore and Pali Surdhar to learn more.

Deepfakes and synthetic identities are posing a threat to banks and financial organizations – organizations that are required to “know your customer”. Join host Ken Kadet as he speaks with Jordan Avnaim, CISO at Entrust, and Greg Wetmore, VP of Product Development at Entrust about how you can protect customers in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.

AI has started an arms race in cybersecurity. Will this continue to escalate or is AI just the latest tool where winning requires an ongoing state of Zero Trust? Join host Ken Kadet as he speaks to Greg Wetmore (VP of  Software Development, Entrust) and Rishi Kaushal (CIO, Entrust) about AI from the enterprise security perspective.