Agenda
19:00 - Event start with introductions
19:10 - Speaker - Marin Ivezic
19:40 - Speaker - Dr Mark Tehrani
20:10 - Panel discussion, followed by Questions and answers
20:30 - Event close
Synopsis
In operational technology, broken cryptography stops being a data problem and becomes a safety one.
The fifth evening of the Summer of PQC series looks at industrial control systems and critical national infrastructure — estates built to run for decades, patched rarely, and seldom inventoried.
Marin Ivezic sets out, concisely, why post-quantum migration is materially harder in OT than in IT: long asset lifecycles, constrained protocols and hardware, narrow maintenance windows, certification and safety hurdles, and a persistent cryptographic blind spot.
Dr Mark Tehrani follows with “From Discovery to Prioritization: A Practical Framework for PQC Migration in OT”, offering a way to sequence migration by cryptographic dependency, operational criticality, safety impact and migration complexity.
A moderated panel and audience questions and answers follow.
About the speakers
Marin Ivezic is a cyber security and emerging-technology leader with more than three decades of experience in enterprise risk, cyber resilience and quantum-era security. He is Founder and CEO of Applied Quantum, a consultancy dedicated exclusively to quantum technologies, and the author behind postquantum.com. He has held senior leadership roles at IBM and Accenture and partner positions at PwC and KPMG, and has served as interim CISO and CTO for major telecommunications and financial services organisations. A member of the World Economic Forum's Cybersecurity and Digital Society expert networks, he is completing doctoral research in quantum computing and is the author of the forthcoming Practical Quantum Resistance.
Dr Mark Tehrani is founder and CEO of CyberseQ (cyberseq.io) and co-founder, with Professor Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE, of LatticeGuard.io. A serial founder and former George Washington University adjunct professor, he researches quantum cybersecurity analytics at Edinburgh Napier University and GWU. CyberseQ's PostQ platform acts as a system of record for enterprise PQC migration - discovering cryptographic assets, prioritising risk and executing a structured migration plan against the NIST FIPS 203–206 standards.
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