Future Cybersecurity: Hardware Memory Safety, Automated Governance and Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Olimpiu Pop: Hello, everybody. I'm Olimpiu Pop, an InfoQ editor, and I have in front of me today Chris Swan. I'll let him explain what he does for a living, but I know him as a track host for the InfoQ event, QCon, mainly in London, and he's been part of the program committee for a long period of time. This year particularly, he had the security track on his hands, and given that we had so many things to learn from, we said that we'll just look into what happened and what he predicts for the future. Chris, can you please introduce yourself?

Chris Swan: Sure thing. So hi, I'm Chris Swan. My main job is as an engineer at Atsign, where we're building a platform that makes it easy for people to build post-quantum security into their agentic applications. So I've been doing that for a little over five years now. It involves me in open source, and I also like to spend time in the broader community with things like QCon. It was my real pleasure, sort of at the end of last year to be invited back in order to host the security track. I think at the time I didn't have a particular overarching theme or thread running right the way through it, but on reflection, I think you could say it became about understanding the foundations that we're standing on and the fact that a lot of our vulnerability comes from the leaky abstractions beneath us, whether that's dependencies or underlying platforms and things like that.