Podcasts

| 04/09/2025
The Next Chapter in Securing the World’s Internet
What does it take to keep the world’s most widely used cryptographic library secure in the quantum era? We welcome Tomáš Mráz, Director of the OpenSSL Software Foundation, and Jon Ericson, Community Manager.
| 28/08/2025
Post-Quantum Prep Without the Panic: Don’t Delay Your Upgrade to TLS 1.3
What if quantum computing feels years away, but your migration to post-quantum cryptography needs to start today? In this episode of Shielded we welcome Kevin Hilscher, Senior Director of Product Management at DigiCert.
| 21/08/2025
Designing for Breakage: What Cybersecurity Leaders Must Plan For
In this episode of Shielded, we welcome Yolanda Reid, former IBM Consulting leader and U.S. defense veteran, to explain why PQC is not a patch, but a permanent shift in how we secure systems, train teams, and think about risk.
| 14/08/2025
From NIST Standards to Action: A Year of PQC Migration
In this special episode of Shielded, we revisit those early conversations about PQC migration to see how far we’ve come since the NIST standards were introduced a year ago.
| 10/08/2025
Hardware Is the Hidden Risk: Ferhat Yaman on PQC, Side-Channel Attacks, and AI Privacy
We meet Ferhat Yaman, a security researcher at AMD’s Product Security Office, to explore the front lines of post-quantum cryptography, hardware vulnerabilities, and AI privacy.
| 17/07/2025
The biggest risk to PQC migration is you (and other humans)
What if the biggest threat to your cybersecurity strategy isn’t quantum computing, but humans? In this episode of Shielded, we welcome Professor Bill Buchanan, OBE, FRSE, a global leader in applied cryptography, digital trust, and secure system design.
| 26/06/2025
The Crypto Agility Paradox: When Hardware Becomes Your Security Bottleneck
In this episode of Shielded, we are joined by Cassie Crossley, Vice President of Supply Chain Security in the Global Cybersecurity & Product Security Office at Schneider Electric. Cassie shares the hard-earned lessons from a multi-year crypto agility program in one of the world’s largest OT environments.
| 05/06/2025
NCSC proposes its PQC transition timeline to UK Policy makers: guiding the UK to a quantum-safe future
In this episode of Shielded, host Johannes Lintzen sits down with Dr Jeremy Bradley, Principal Technical Director at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), to explore the UK’s newly released guidance on migrating to post-quantum cryptography.
| 22/05/2025
Your Hardware Refresh Is a Quantum Deadline with Mamta Gupta, Lattice Semiconductor
In this episode of Shielded, Johannes Lintzen sits down with Mamta Gupta of Lattice Semiconductor to explore how hardware-rooted security must evolve to meet the post-quantum challenge.
| 16/05/2025
HSMs and PQC Migration: Are We There Yet? / RSA
In this special RSA 2025 edition we gather 4 leading voices from the world of hardware security to discuss a cornerstone technology powering the post-quantum migration: the Hardware Security Module (HSM).
| 30/04/2025
Awareness to Action: The Blueprint for Quantum-Resilient Security | Garfield Jones
In this episode of Shielded: The Last Line of Cyber Defense, host Johannes Lintzen sits down with Dr. Garfield Jones from CISA to dive into the practical steps for post-quantum migration, making the case that waiting until 2035 is far too late.
| 16/04/2025
Your Cryptography is stuck in 2010 – How to Catch Up | Hart Montgomery
In this episode of Shielded: we speak with Hart Montgomery, Technical Director at LF Decentralized Trust, about how outdated cryptographic dependencies, hidden vulnerabilities, and poor crypto agility are putting critical systems at risk.