Post-Quantum Cryptography: What Every Organization Needs to Know with Michael Fasulo
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: What Every Organization Needs to Know with Michael Fasulo

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 12, 202630 min

What if the encrypted traffic flowing across the internet right now (emails, files, logins) is already being quietly collected and stored by someone waiting for the day they can finally crack it open? That's the threat behind "harvest now, decrypt later," and it's closer than most people think. Ron Eddings sits down with Michael Fasulo, Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing at Commvault, to talk about where post-quantum cryptography (PQC) really stands in 2026. They discuss "harvest now, decrypt later," the specific industries quietly racing to prepare, and why a commercially viable quantum machine might only be four...

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When it comes to PQC, you always hear something called harvest now, decrypt later. Who else will be a target when it comes to that type of approach? Critical infrastructure and then obviously the government. It's going to be part of that attack chain.

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This is going to be a larger exposure later on when these viable quantum machines are available to these threat actors. Are we currently behind? Should we have been working on this yesterday? It's very much a yesterday issue that we should have been doing.

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a lot of boards that we talk to still think that this is in the science fiction category. Once we start to see these exposures, you don't want to be on the receiving end of it. It's not too late. What's going on, Hacker Valley fam? Welcome back to the show. It's your host, Ron Eddings. And right now, most people are caught up in the world of AI agents and trying to outsource their work

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