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    "text": "We're taking a deep dive into the biggest ICT and tech trends popping up on LinkedIn over the last couple of weeks, calendar weeks, thirty seven and thirty"
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    "start": 59.7,
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    "text": "eight."
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    "start": 59.86,
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    "text": "Yeah, and looking at the sources, two big things really stood out."
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    "text": "First, this intense pressure really to harden the digital core against all these escalating attacks."
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    "text": "Right."
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    "text": "And second, keeping an eye on these well looming discontinuities in compute and cryptography."
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    "start": 76.2,
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    "text": "Big shifts coming."
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    "start": 77.32,
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    "text": "Definitely."
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    "text": "So our mission here for you listening is basically to boil down the key strategic takeaways from all that chatter."
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    "start": 84.8,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "We're focusing on how you actually do zero trust, what the real world impact of quantum is today, not just hypothetically, and how to build that resilience."
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    "start": 94.44,
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    "text": "you need to, frankly, survive the next wave of big cyber threats."
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    "text": "We want you to get the critical insights without getting buried in information."
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    "start": 102.3,
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    "text": "All right, so theme A has to be cybersecurity, and specifically Zero Trust or ZT."
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    "text": "It feels like it's just table stakes now."
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    "start": 110.22,
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    "text": "Absolutely."
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    "text": "No longer a trend, it's the foundation."
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    "text": "It's amazing."
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    "start": 114.18,
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    "text": "John Kinderveg introduced that core idea."
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    "start": 116.26,
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    "text": "Never trust, always verify, what, fifteen years ago?"
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    "text": "Fifteen"
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    "start": 119.6,
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    "text": "And now it's just essential."
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    "text": "You can't run these hyper-connected systems without it."
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    "start": 123.36,
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    "text": "And it"
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    "start": 123.58,
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    "text": "really forces a shift in thinking about access."
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    "start": 125.8,
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    "text": "Antonio Veeh put it really well, I thought."
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    "text": "He said Zero Trust isn't really about saying no all the time."
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    "text": "It's about building the systems that let you confidently say yes securely, which means continuous verification."
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    "start": 138.4,
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    "text": "Always checking."
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    "start": 139.26,
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    "text": "Like NIST SP-E-A-H-R-O-T-O-S-E-V-O-N lays out."
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    "start": 143.16,
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    "text": "Access isn't static."
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    "text": "verification."
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    "start": 146.38,
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    "text": "But what if you don't get it right?"
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    "start": 148.78,
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    "text": "The costs are, well, they're eye-watering."
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    "start": 151.06,
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    "text": "Jane Franklin pointed this out with the cooperative group."
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    "start": 153.52,
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    "text": "Oh yeah, that was a big one."
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    "start": 154.46,
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    "text": "An eighty million loss."
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    "start": 156.92,
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    "text": "and just the first half of the year following an attack, that proves this isn't just some IT headache."
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    "start": 161.9,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 162.48,
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    "text": "That number, eighty million pounds, it totally reframes the risk, doesn't it?"
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    "start": 165.92,
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    "text": "It's not just cleanup cost."
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    "start": 167.72,
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    "text": "It's business continuity."
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    "text": "It's a direct hit to the finances."
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    "start": 171.12,
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    "text": "Something you report to shareholders immediately."
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    "start": 173.58,
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    "text": "It's C-suite level stuff."
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    "text": "And you see the knock-on effects in these super specialized, you know, efficiency-driven systems, like that Collins Aerospace ransomware attack."
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    "start": 183.06,
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    "text": "Marcello Devonso flagged that one."
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    "text": "It reportedly it grows European airport systems for seventy-two hours."
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    "start": 188.62,
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    "text": "Yeah, three days."
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    "start": 189.66,
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    "text": "That's not just a delay."
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    "text": "That's critical infrastructure going down."
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    "start": 191.96,
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    "start": 192.66,
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    "text": "It really is."
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    "start": 193.34,
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 193.64,
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    "text": "And it shows how these highly connected efficient systems can accidentally create these really dangerous single points of failure."
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    "text": "Devonzo even mentioned a warning about a potential six hundred percent surge in aviation cyber attacks."
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    "text": "A hundred percent between twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five."
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    "start": 210.7,
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    "text": "the projection he cited."
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    "text": "So it really hammers home why Zero Trust has to cover the whole supply chain, not just your own core systems."
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    "text": "So, okay, if ZT is the architecture, what's the key enforcement tool?"
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    "text": "Timur Iblal made a strong case for identity and access management, IAM."
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    "text": "He called it maybe the most underrated service."
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    "start": 230.56,
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    "text": "Oh, definitely underrated."
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    "start": 231.8,
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 232.28,
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    "text": "But maybe the highest leverage control you have."
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    "start": 234.16,
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    "text": "Because if you ignore IAM, you end up with roles that have way too many permissions."
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    "start": 238.76,
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    "text": "Right."
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    "start": 239.24,
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    "text": "And those over-permission roles, that's how attackers move laterally."
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    "start": 242.08,
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    "start": 244.2,
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    "text": "You need least privilege to be like how things actually work, not just a policy written down somewhere."
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    "start": 248.72,
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    "text": "And that least privileged thinking, it needs to go beyond human users now, right?"
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    "start": 252.8,
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    "text": "Especially with AI agents becoming more common."
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    "start": 255.22,
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    "text": "Absolutely critical."
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    "text": "Dimitri Tepper was talking about this move towards just in time, or JIT access enforcement."
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    "text": "JIT access."
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    "start": 263.12,
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    "text": "So what's different"
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    "text": "there?"
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    "text": "It's not just giving access when someone requests it."
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    "start": 267.22,
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    "text": "It's continuous enforcement based on live conditions."
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    "start": 270.44,
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    "text": "Like, what's the user's risk score right now?"
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    "start": 272.74,
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    "text": "Ah,"
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    "start": 273.7,
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    "text": "okay, dynamics."
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    "start": 275.06,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "text": "And why that's so important for AI, particularly things like our Ag agents, you know, the ones pulling external data for generative models."
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    "start": 283.52,
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "start": 283.94,
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    "text": "Well, traditional provisioning is slow."
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    "start": 285.78,
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    "text": "It's clunky, lots of overhead."
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    "text": "It just doesn't make sense for these non-human agents that might need very specific access for a very short time."
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    "text": "Andrew Fraser actually warned that these AI agents could be security disasters waiting to happen if they don't have super granular JIT privileges."
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    "text": "Security disasters waiting to happen."
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    "start": 302.5,
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    "text": "Okay, scary thought."
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    "text": "So let's say you've got ZT, you've got IAM tightened up, but things still go wrong sometimes."
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    "text": "Humans are involved."
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    "text": "Always."
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    "text": "So when a breach does happen, how do you handle that chaos effectively?"
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    "text": "This gets into operational discipline, right?"
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    "start": 317.24,
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    "text": "Yeah, and Rob McGowan have this brilliant analogy."
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    "text": "He compared a really good breach response."
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    "text": "to a NASCAR pit stop."
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    "text": "A"
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    "start": 324.58,
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    "text": "pit stop?"
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    "start": 325.36,
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    "text": "Okay, I like that."
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    "text": "Think about it, four, maybe six people."
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    "text": "No time to discuss, just immediate coordinated action."
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    "text": "It's all muscle memory from practice, from drills."
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    "text": "That's the only way to minimize the damage when things go sideways fast."
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "text": "And the culture has to support that speed and crucially transparency."
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    "text": "Laura Vaughn highlighted sofos after one of their senior people got fished, even bypassed MFA."
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    "text": "Right."
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    "text": "And what was so good?"
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    "text": "there wasn't just the technical fix."
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    "text": "Wow."
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    "text": "And the key thing, the employee felt safe enough to report it immediately."
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    "text": "Because Sophos had a clear no reprimand policy for this kind of thing, that immediate report stopped a small mistake becoming huge."
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    "text": "That's a win for security culture."
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    "text": "Makes total sense."
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    "text": "If people are scared of getting blamed, they wait."
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    "text": "And waiting is fatal in an attack."
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    "start": 376.88,
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    "text": "Absolutely."
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    "text": "And we also need to remember the personal side of this."
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    "text": "The toll it takes on security pros."
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    "text": "shared a very personal story about battling imposter syndrome when he moved careers to Germany."
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    "start": 390.36,
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    "text": "Yeah, that was powerful."
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    "text": "He called it the cruel irony."
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    "text": "He'd implemented zero trust for all these complex systems, but not really for himself, struggling with self-doubt."
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    "text": "It really is."
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    "start": 410.3,
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    "text": "Okay, let's shift gears now."
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    "text": "From hardening the present to preparing"
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    "text": "for a"
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    "start": 415.18,
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    "text": "pretty massive future disruption, quantum computing."
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    "start": 419.3,
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    "text": "Yeah, the next big wave."
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    "text": "Ashish Shrivastava and Tony Moroni from KPMG, they were very direct."
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    "text": "Basically current encryption like RSA and ECC they won't survive."
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    "start": 432.1,
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    "start": 433.68,
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    "text": "That's dark and some are calling this the crypto apocalypse."
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    "start": 437.14,
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    "text": "That's term here and the timelines are getting kind of scary."
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    "start": 439.94,
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    "text": "Farouk Arslan cited a fifty-fifty chance."
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    "start": 442.36,
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    "start": 445.6,
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    "text": "twenty thirty for Bitcoin."
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    "start": 453.04,
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    "text": "pretty strong words, but Dominic Briggs explained the how Quantum computers are just really really good at breaking that public-private key relationship."
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    "start": 462.38,
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    "text": "Okay."
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    "start": 463.3,
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    "text": "So, theoretically, an attacker could figure out your private crypto key just from your public one."
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    "start": 468.68,
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    "text": "And if they can do that for Bitcoin or Ethereum, they can potentially do it for any sensitive data we're encrypting today."
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    "text": "Which brings us back to that whole harvest now decrypt later problem."
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    "start": 479.1,
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    "text": "People grabbing encrypted data today, waiting for quantum to crack it open."
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    "start": 482.88,
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    "text": "Exactly."
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    "start": 483.64,
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    "text": "Which is why Steve Suarez was stressing that companies have to start planning now, exploring things like post-quantum cryptography, PQC, and maybe quantum key distribution, QKD."
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    "text": "That's a really important clarification."
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    "text": "But there's still a bottleneck, isn't there?"
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    "text": "Yeah, the dirty secret."
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    "text": "Precisely."
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    "text": "Okay, so final theme."
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    "text": "quite a landscape, from zero trust foundations to quantum frontiers and the infrastructure holding it all together."
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    "start": 763.02,
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    "text": "You know, we started this talking about that massive eighty million dollars loss from a cyber attack."
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    "start": 768.02,
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    "text": "That kind of visible pain is clearly driving this."
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    "text": "what's the final strategic thought here, tying together resilience, identity, sovereignty?"
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    "start": 780.8,
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    "start": 782.18,
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    "text": "I"
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    "text": "Yeah."
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    "text": "Think about it."
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    "text": "You see France's data protection authority, CNIL, using manga comics to teach teenagers about data privacy."
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    "start": 824.26,
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    "text": "Treating digital sovereignty as core economic infrastructure, definitely something to think about."
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    "start": 829.8,
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    "text": "Well, thank you for joining us for this deep dive."
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    "start": 831.54,
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    "text": "Thanks Ariel."
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