Podcasts

| 22/05/2026
Curing Inventory Paralysis: Perfect Data is the Enemy of real-world Progress
Antti Ropponen, Global Quantum Safe Transformation Leader at IBM Consulting, explains why the current shift toward post-quantum cryptography mirrors the early days of cloud migration.
| 08/05/2026
Moving From Awareness To Action: The Board’s Role In Organizational Resilience
| 16/04/2026
RSA Conference 2026: Views on quantum-safe migrations
In this episode of Shielded, Jo Lintzen speaks with Aisling Dawson, Senior Analyst at ABI Research, and Itan Barmes, Chief Strategy Officer at Qiz Security, live from RSA Conference 2026.
| 09/04/2026
Breaking Silos: Resilience as a Cross-Functional Mandate
In this episode of Shielded:, Jo speaks with Carolina Polito, a researcher at the Center for European Policy Studies and a PhD candidate in international relations.
| 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.