Post-Quantum Cryptography and Passkeys, with Geoff Schomburgk and Alex Wilson (Yubico)

Quantum computers will one day break the cryptography that protects almost everything online. The harder questions are how much of the alarm is warranted, and what security leaders should be doing now.David Savva-Willett is joined by Geoff Schomburgk, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Yubico, and Alex Wilson, who leads solutions engineering for the region. They unpack harvest now, decrypt later and how much of it is a device for grabbing attention; what it took to get post-quantum algorithms running on the secure element inside a YubiKey; and why crypto agility, not any single algorithm, is the thing to design for.The conversation turns to authentication, where passkeys are becoming the root of trust for digital wallets, mobile driver licences and financial transactions, and to the difference between device bound and copyable passkeys that many organisations have not thought through. Both guests make the case that this is a project management and governance problem rather than a technology one, and that the apocalyptic framing does more harm than good.