The Identity Thread by Entrust

As AI agents begin participating in financial transactions, banks face new challenges around identity, trust, consent, and accountability. In this episode, Mayank Somaiya of Backbase and Andy Cease of Entrust explore what it will take to build secure, trusted frameworks for the future of agentic banking. 

Digital identity has come a long way from the early days of single sign-on, but the next era may be even more complex. As AI agents begin to take actions on behalf of humans, organizations need to rethink identity not only as access control, but as the foundation for trust, consent, privacy, delegation, and accountability. In this episode, Eve Maler and Adam Dimopoulos explore how identity has evolved and where it’s headed as digital interactions become increasingly automated, agentic, and relationship-driven.

Every technology shift needs infrastructure to catch up to the hype, and agentic AI is no exception. In this episode, Sathvik "Sath" Krishnamurthy, Founder and Managing Partner of Security Leadership Capital, unpacks what it actually takes to secure autonomous, non-deterministic agents at scale. From the near-limitless attack surface these systems create, to why trust is becoming a new control plane, Sath lays out how CISOs can separate real solutions from AI-washed marketing, and what questions leaders should be asking before they move agentic projects from experimentation into production. 

Organizations are facing a new kind of security challenge: one defined by compressed timelines, emerging risks, expanding trust boundaries, and competing priorities. That urgency is only increasing. Recent White House Executive Orders make clear that quantum isn’t a distant concern: the U.S. is accelerating quantum innovation while setting firm timelines to transition critical systems to post-quantum cryptography. In this episode, leaders from IBM, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Entrust cut through the hype to focus on what matters now: where to prioritize, how to balance immediate risks with long-term transformation, and what it takes to prepare for a future where machines act autonomously and cryptographic trust must continuously evolve.

In this episode, Hrant Gharibyan, CEO and Co-founder of BlueQubit, and Michael Klieman, Global VP of Product at Entrust, explore what it really takes to build a quantum computer, how AI is compressing the timeline, and why organizations must rethink trust, identity, and post-quantum cryptography now. Because as AI accelerates, so does the need for quantum-safe foundations.

Public key infrastructure (PKI) has quietly become one of the most critical foundations of digital trust. But what was once a stable, behind-the-scenes system is now under unprecedented pressure. As certificate lifetimes shrink to 47-days in Public trust and to as little as seconds in Private Trust PKI, post quantum timelines accelerate, legacy PKI models are showing real cracks: outages, compliance gaps, and operational risk that many organizations didn’t realize they were carrying. And with machine identities scaling and AI agents acting autonomously, PKI is no longer just securing systems; it’s governing trust at machine speed. In this episode, we explore why modernizing PKI is now essential for the agentic enterprise and how organizations can evolve to more automated, resilient trust models built for what’s next. 

As post‑quantum (PQ) timelines shrink and the threat landscape intensifies, organizations can no longer afford to stall in the early stages of cryptographic discovery. In this episode, special guest Antti Ropponen, Executive Partner, Quantum Safe Transformation Services at IBM, and Greg Wetmore, Vice President of Product Development at Entrust, break down why so many teams remain stuck mapping their cryptographic assets, and how to accelerate the journey toward real PQ implementation. Together, they outline how to move from awareness to action, building crypto agility, and preparing for a quantum‑safe future before the clock runs out. 

As remote work and global hiring become standard, the enterprise faces a new crisis: the infiltration of fraudulent identities into the trusted workforce. This episode examines the failure of legacy verification systems and the rise of sophisticated, AI-driven impersonation tactics that circumvent traditional security.     In this episode, Entrust experts Mike Baxter and Rishi Kaushal discuss the necessity of securing high-risk moments across the entire employee lifecycle. The discussion focuses on moving beyond one-time background checks toward a model of continuous, biometric-anchored identity to secure every employee touchpoint. 

In this special inaugural episode of the Identity Thread Podcast by Entrust, we sit down with incoming Entrust CEO Tony Ball to explore why identity security has become the defining challenge – and opportunity – of today’s digital era.   As fraud, cyber risks, and emerging technologies rapidly evolve, identity has emerged as the new common thread against these threats. Tony shares his perspective on what identity-centric security really means, why organizations must rethink how they protect the identity lifecycle, and how leaders can build trust in an increasingly complex world.

At the dawn of 2026, the post quantum (PQ) era has effectively arrived with “harvest now, decrypt later” style attacks and the availability of NIST post quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. So, how prepared are organizations really, and what does the future of encryption look like? In this episode, our Entrust PQ experts Michael Klieman and Samantha Mabey answer these questions and more by sharing key insights and trends from the Entrust 2026 Global State of Post-Quantum and Cryptographic Security Trends.