Agenda
19:00 - Event start with welcome and introductions
19:10 - Speaker - Dr Itan Barmes
19:40 - Speaker - Dr Mark Tehrani
20:10 - Panel discussion, followed by Q&As
20:30 - Event close
Synopsis
Cryptography is everywhere in the modern enterprise, and in most organisations it is governed nowhere. The seventh evening of the Summer of PQC series takes that problem head on, moving beyond the one-off discovery exercise to the discipline now emerging around it: cryptographic posture management. Continuous visibility of cryptographic assets, a policy against which those assets can be measured, and an operational route from finding a weakness to fixing it.
Dr Itan Barmes draws on six years leading quantum cyber readiness work with some of the world's largest organisations, and on the experience of building a platform to address it. He examines why a cryptographic inventory begins to decay the moment it is captured, what separates a genuine posture management capability from a spreadsheet of scan results, and why crypto-agility rather than any single algorithm choice is the durable objective.
Dr Mark Tehrani returns to the series to consider what posture management looks like in execution: maintaining a system of record for migration, prioritising remediation when everything appears urgent at once, and evidencing progress to regulators, auditors and boards against the NIST standards.
Between them, the speakers address the question facing every organisation that has finished a discovery exercise and is now looking at the results: what happens on the day after the scan?
A moderated panel and audience questions and answers follow.
About the speakers
Dr Itan Barmes is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of QIZ Security, a cryptographic posture management platform that helps enterprises discover, prioritise and remediate cryptographic risk and achieve post-quantum readiness.
Before founding QIZ he built and led the global quantum cyber readiness capability at Deloitte over six years, advising governments and some of the world's largest organisations on cryptographic risk management, PKI, key management and quantum-safe transition.
He has served as a Quantum Security project fellow at the World Economic Forum, contributing to the Forum's quantum security work, and he publishes and speaks regularly on cryptography management and quantum cybersecurity. He holds a PhD in experimental physics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He founded QIZ to close a gap he saw repeatedly from the advisory side: organisations understood they had a cryptographic problem, but had no means of seeing, governing or remediating it at scale.
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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