Extremely Valuable Secrets – ESW #160

In the news, talking about how Trustwave offers threat detection and response for Microsoft Azure, LogRhythm offers migration service to Splunk customers to address security challenges, CrowdStrikes Falcon security platform lands on AWS, and how GitLab plans to ban hires in China and Russia due to espionage concerns!

Tim Callan is the Senior Fellow at Sectigo. Quantum computing and what its arrival means for IT, traditional computing and infosecurity. TC expects that both architectures will live side by side, with traditional computing serving most tasks and quantum computing being employed for the specific operations where it offers improved efficiency. He will discuss expected outcome of quantum computing is that the world’s existing cryptographic infrastructure will have to change in a fundamental way and future encryption platforms need to be resistant to attacks not just from quantum computers but traditional computers as well.

Adrian is an Advocate at Thinkst, the company behind the awesome and much loved Thinkst Canary. A former practitioner, PCI QSA, penetration tester, industry analyst and entrepreneur, he has explored many angles of the security industry, attempting to understand what makes it tick and what makes it fail. Adrian is an outspoken researcher that doesn't shy away from uncomfortable truths. He loves to write about the industry, tell stories and still sees the glass as half full.