The Identity Thread by Entrust

Every technology shift needs infrastructure to catch up to the hype, and agentic AI is no exception. In this episode, Sathvik "Sath" Krishnamurthy, Founder and Managing Partner of Security Leadership Capital, unpacks what it actually takes to secure autonomous, non-deterministic agents at scale. From the near-limitless attack surface these systems create, to why trust is becoming a new control plane, Sath lays out how CISOs can separate real solutions from AI-washed marketing, and what questions leaders should be asking before they move agentic projects from experimentation into production. 

Organizations are facing a new kind of security challenge: one defined by compressed timelines, emerging risks, expanding trust boundaries, and competing priorities. That urgency is only increasing. Recent White House Executive Orders make clear that quantum isn’t a distant concern: the U.S. is accelerating quantum innovation while setting firm timelines to transition critical systems to post-quantum cryptography. In this episode, leaders from IBM, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Entrust cut through the hype to focus on what matters now: where to prioritize, how to balance immediate risks with long-term transformation, and what it takes to prepare for a future where machines act autonomously and cryptographic trust must continuously evolve.

In this episode, Hrant Gharibyan, CEO and Co-founder of BlueQubit, and Michael Klieman, Global VP of Product at Entrust, explore what it really takes to build a quantum computer, how AI is compressing the timeline, and why organizations must rethink trust, identity, and post-quantum cryptography now. Because as AI accelerates, so does the need for quantum-safe foundations.

Public key infrastructure (PKI) has quietly become one of the most critical foundations of digital trust. But what was once a stable, behind-the-scenes system is now under unprecedented pressure. As certificate lifetimes shrink to 47-days in Public trust and to as little as seconds in Private Trust PKI, post quantum timelines accelerate, legacy PKI models are showing real cracks: outages, compliance gaps, and operational risk that many organizations didn’t realize they were carrying. And with machine identities scaling and AI agents acting autonomously, PKI is no longer just securing systems; it’s governing trust at machine speed. In this episode, we explore why modernizing PKI is now essential for the agentic enterprise and how organizations can evolve to more automated, resilient trust models built for what’s next. 

As post‑quantum (PQ) timelines shrink and the threat landscape intensifies, organizations can no longer afford to stall in the early stages of cryptographic discovery. In this episode, special guest Antti Ropponen, Executive Partner, Quantum Safe Transformation Services at IBM, and Greg Wetmore, Vice President of Product Development at Entrust, break down why so many teams remain stuck mapping their cryptographic assets, and how to accelerate the journey toward real PQ implementation. Together, they outline how to move from awareness to action, building crypto agility, and preparing for a quantum‑safe future before the clock runs out. 

As remote work and global hiring become standard, the enterprise faces a new crisis: the infiltration of fraudulent identities into the trusted workforce. This episode examines the failure of legacy verification systems and the rise of sophisticated, AI-driven impersonation tactics that circumvent traditional security.     In this episode, Entrust experts Mike Baxter and Rishi Kaushal discuss the necessity of securing high-risk moments across the entire employee lifecycle. The discussion focuses on moving beyond one-time background checks toward a model of continuous, biometric-anchored identity to secure every employee touchpoint. 

In this special inaugural episode of the Identity Thread Podcast by Entrust, we sit down with incoming Entrust CEO Tony Ball to explore why identity security has become the defining challenge – and opportunity – of today’s digital era.   As fraud, cyber risks, and emerging technologies rapidly evolve, identity has emerged as the new common thread against these threats. Tony shares his perspective on what identity-centric security really means, why organizations must rethink how they protect the identity lifecycle, and how leaders can build trust in an increasingly complex world.

At the dawn of 2026, the post quantum (PQ) era has effectively arrived with “harvest now, decrypt later” style attacks and the availability of NIST post quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. So, how prepared are organizations really, and what does the future of encryption look like? In this episode, our Entrust PQ experts Michael Klieman and Samantha Mabey answer these questions and more by sharing key insights and trends from the Entrust 2026 Global State of Post-Quantum and Cryptographic Security Trends.

2025 was characterized by an exponential increase in the use of AI to both perpetrate and defend against fraud. But in 2026, fraud won’t just be about stealing money; it will be about undermining trust in our digital universe. In this episode, our incoming CEO Tony Ball and Mike Baxter, President and Chief Technology & Product Officer, will share key learnings from the past year along with some strategies and best practices to stay ahead of the intensifying fraud, technology, and regulatory landscape in 2026.  

Fraud today is evolving – and fast. From deepfakes to synthetic identities, attackers are adapting and using AI and automation to exploit vulnerabilities at every turn. Identity is no longer just a login—it's the frontline of defense. In this episode, we’re joined by a special guest, Shira Rubinoff, and Simon Horswell, a senior fraud specialist, as we explore findings from the 2026 Identity Fraud Report and how to rebuild trust in a world where identity is fluid, misinformation is weaponized, and traditional security frameworks are no longer enough. We unpack the tactics fraudsters used over the past year, how the threat landscape is shifting — and how businesses must respond to rebuild trust. 

Securing the public sector is more than protecting systems and data – it's about protecting the trust between the governments and the citizens they serve. In this episode, we welcome Ofer Amrami, Deputy CIO and CISO of the Los Angeles Superior Courts, as he shares insights on what it takes to secure essential public service delivery in an era of growing cyber risk and distrust. From the courtroom to broader public networks, he explores how to defend mission-critical operations, manage the evolving threat landscape, and build a strong sense of trust across diverse stakeholders. 

Cryptographic assets, including encryption keys, certificates, and tokens, are a critical layer of modern cybersecurity. These tools are essential for securing data, authenticating users, and enabling trust. But without proper oversight and management, they can become fragmented, hard to track, and even harder to manage. In this episode, experts Greg Wetmore and Samantha Mabey offer insights on how to best approach cryptography management, navigate operational complexities, and master your cryptographic sprawl to become quantum ready.

Digital identity underpins modern cybersecurity and citizen empowerment. Yet governments around the world are moving at different speeds and in different directions inhibiting their respective and collective success. How can governments realize universally accepted and trusted digital credentials for their citizens? In this episode, experts Jyotsna Pantula and Sebastian Sienra tackle the challenge of realizing interoperability and trust in digital identity ecosystems. 

As financial transactions become increasingly digital, the demand for seamless user experiences often clashes with the need for robust security measures. In part two of this episode on the trust paradox in payments security, we’re continuing our conversation with Entrust experts Simon Horswell and Andy Cease on the role of biometric ID verification, the evolving regulatory landscape, and how banks can get ahead of fraudsters. 

Digital payments are becoming the norm, raising the stakes for security and trust. With rising threats from AI-driven fraud and growing pressure for speed and compliance, how can financial institutions close the gap between usage and security confidence? In this episode, experts Simon Horswell and Andy Cease unpack the trust paradox in payments security and explore strategies to secure the future of digital transactions. 

As summer approaches, millions of people are preparing to hit the skies, roads and seas. Government agencies around the globe are bracing for this influx, and many are requiring digital travel authorizations to pre-screen travelers. But as more travelers cross international borders, they often face long, painful wait times and customs processes. In this podcast episode, we delve into the intersection of digital ID security and border protection, and how nations can ensure a seamless experience for travelers while keeping global journeys secure. 

Technology is reshaping financial services. AI-powered synthetic identities and deepfakes are propelling fraudsters to new heights, while quantum computing is poised to break the conventional encryption that safeguards financial services today. Regulatory efforts to help mitigate some of these risks are also creating an increasingly complex global financial compliance landscape. In this podcast episode, we’ll delve into strategies and tactics for financial institutions to thrive, not just survive, during this turbulent period with identity-centric security.

In this special edition podcast episode, we are bringing our audience insights from the biggest event in cybersecurity: RSAC 2025. While at the conference, we spoke with some of our experts on some of the most talked about themes from the show, including agentic AI, encryption and post-quantum cryptography, identity security, and regulations and compliance – and how to stay ahead amid the increasing threat landscape.

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.

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.

CISA's (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s) strategic plan was just recently released and focuses on four key areas: cyber defense, risk reduction and resilience, operational collaboration, and agency unification. What can we learn from this work? Where does it fall short? How is this elevating or helping the practice of cybersecurity in the US, and around the world? Join our host, Ken Kadet, as he talks about this and more with Paul Calatayud, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Onada, and former CSO at Palo Alto Networks and the CTO at Firemon.

What’s next in the war for the wallet, and how do you win? What can big banks, big tech, and big financial institutions learn from each other? Join our hosts Ken Kadet as he discusses the rapidly changing banking and payments landscape with industry experts who provide their insights on the risks and opportunities.

In this podcast episode, host Samantha Mabey talks to Brian LaMacchia, President of FARCASTER Consulting Group and former Distinguised Engineer for Cryptography at Microsoft, about the decades of research that’s gone into Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC), and how the pace and intensity of academic PQ research compares with previous eras of cryptography. They also discuss the standardization process of PQC, including the algorithms under review in the NIST competition today, and how PQC standards are likely to evolve in the future.

In this special post-quantum episode, guest host, Samantha Mabey, speaks with Dr. Sarah McCarthy, cryptographic strategist at evolutionQ and an affiliate of the University of Waterloo, and Anthony Hu, senior software developer at wolfSSL to discuss the impact of post-quantum on constrained devices from WIFI doorbells, to thermometers, to automotive tire pressure sensors and how these devices are going to manage algorithms that are at least 20x bigger and heavier than elliptic curve cryptography. 

Entrust experts Mark Ruchie, Rishi Kaushal, and Greg Wetmore take on the evolution of phishing in our June Cybersecurity Institute podcast, going deep on phishing-resistant MFA, the impact of AI and ChatGPT, and more.

Entrust experts Mark Ruchie, Rishi Kaushal and Greg Wetmore talk about the building blocks of a robust Zero Trust framework, the CISA maturity model and more. It’s clear from the discussion that today we find ourselves at a turning point – zero trust is now a priority and focus for leaders at the highest level of organizations and governments alike.

In this special post-quantum episode, guest host, Samantha Mabey, speaks with Sandy Carielli, Principal Analyst at Forrester, for her insights on the recent uptick in government action that has been taking place – such as the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act – and what that means non-federal agencies. She also discusses some of the challenges organizations will face when it comes to preparing for and migrating to post-quantum cryptography.

In today's digital age, identity has become a powerful and valuable commodity. But who owns it, and how can we protect it? Join us in this episode of the Entrust Cybersecurity Institute podcast as we explore the future of identity with our team of experts. From the challenges of authentication and password security to the role of biometrics and digital government IDs, we'll delve into the key issues facing companies today. We'll also discuss the pros and cons of centralized vs. decentralized identity solutions, and share our predictions for what's to come.

Has artificial intelligence (AI) finally arrived in software development? What are the implications for cybersecurity and the way organizations do business today? Join our host Ken Kadet as he discusses the future of AI with leaders in software development at Entrust who provide their insights on the present state of and future potential uses of AI.

The cybersecurity arms race is accelerating. That’s the clear lesson of 2022 for those of us committed to protecting organizations from the perils of cyberattacks. But what about the year to come? Join our host Ken Kadet as he speaks to the experts to find out their predictions for cybersecurity in 2023.

We talk with renowned quantum academic Dr. Michele Mosca, deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, and founder and CEO of evolutionQ, and Mike Ounsworth, software security architect at Entrust, on the future of post-quantum cryptography: from the NIST competition, post-quantum digital certificates, and what organizations should do to prepare for and use PQC algorithms. From our Entrust Engage podcast’s Post Quantum Cryptography series, originally posted in September 2022.