Podcasts

| 19/03/2026
Mapping the Supply Chain: A Faster Path to Organizational Resilience
In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks to Sarah McCarthy, Quantum Readiness Program Lead at Citi, who shares how Citi's quantum readiness program has evolved since 2022. They discuss supply chain readiness, and why the first step toward quantum safety does not require a dedicated team or advanced algorithms.
| 15/03/2026
Why AI is accelerating both attackers and defenders: From MWC Barcelona
In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks with two experts at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Amidst the buzz of the industry being in one place, they discuss the security landscape in the AI era.
| 06/03/2026
Your Inventory Dashboard is Not a Migration Strategy
In this episode of Shielded we speak with Stefan Kölbl, an information security engineer at Google, about what it actually takes to migrate cryptography across complex global systems at scale.
| 06/02/2026
Post-Quantum Negligence: When Inaction Becomes Legal Exposure
In this episode of Shielded, Jo speaks to Darren Bender, a US litigation attorney and Chief Litigation Officer in the post-quantum cryptography sector.
| 08/01/2026
The End of Static Cryptography: What Leaders Must Understand Now
This special episode of Shielded brings together experts from cryptography, security architecture, and risk to explain what comes next. The conversation clarifies that security can no longer rely on fixed algorithms or one-time upgrades.
| 19/12/2025
Confidentiality vs Authentication: How Far the Web Has Actually Moved
In this episode of Shielded Jo Lintzen speaks with Sofia Celi, Senior Cryptography and Security Researcher at Brave, co-author of the MAYO signature scheme, and co-chair of an IETF working group driving global PQC standards.
| 04/12/2025
The Hidden Threat: Harvest-Now-Forge-Later and the Collapse of Digital Trust
In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks with Kevin Reifsteck, Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection at Microsoft, about how governments and global enterprises can turn quantum-safe readiness from policy into practice.
| 20/11/2025
Inside Microsoft’s Quantum Safe Program: Turning Policy into Practice
In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks with Kevin Reifsteck, Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection at Microsoft, about how governments and global enterprises can turn quantum-safe readiness from policy into practice.
| 06/11/2025
No-Regrets Migration: Why PKI Should Be Your First Move
Hardware defines trust. If its cryptography fails, no amount of software protection can recover it. In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks with Thalia Laing, Principal Cryptographer at HP.
| 23/10/2025
Global Standards, Regional Variants: Designing for PQC Across Jurisdictions
In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks with Dr. Richard Searle, Chief AI Officer at Fortanix, about how confidential computing and a software-first model accelerate the shift to post-quantum cryptography.
| 26/09/2025
Complacency, Not Quantum, Is the Real Threat: Mike Silverman on Why Crypto-Agility Can’t Wait
In this episode of Shielded: Jo speaks to Mike Silverman, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at FS-ISAC. Mike shares why treating cryptographic migrations as one-off projects leaves organisations exposed, how building inventories and risk-based models creates real readiness, and why crypto-agility, not quantum anxiety, is the foundation for long-term security.
| 17/09/2025
PQC vs. QKD: What Matters Now and What Can Wait
In this episode of Shielded, we talk with Will Collison, Interim Global Head of Cryptography at HSBC. Will explains how to separate PQC, QKD, and quantum computing, and why cryptographic agility is the real objective.