Making Your Organization Cyber Resilient & Compliant with AI & Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Podcasts
Episode 1: Cybersecurity for Leadership: Why Executives must Care (Dr. Gordon Agnew, PhD and Dr. James Kendrick, Ph.D)
Why is the C-suite now a primary target of cyberattacks?
👉 In our first episode, Sem Ponnambalam sits down with Dr. Gordon Agnew PhD, FTICA, FCAE, FAAIA, FAIIA. PEng and Dr. James Kendrick, Ph.D. to unpack:
👉 The growing personal liability facing executives
👉 Why cybersecurity must be owned at the board and leadership level
👉 How attackers are specifically targeting decision-makers
Episode 2: AI & Data Ethics in the Boardroom: Responsible Adoption in Business (Dr. James Kendrick, PhD, Mike Villegas)
👉 AI is already inside most organizations, but here’s the uncomfortable truth: many boards admit they can’t govern it.
👉 In this episode, Dr. James Kendrick, Ph.D. and Miguel (Mike) O. Villegas unpack what responsible AI adoption actually looks like at the board level.
👉 They explore the risks of deploying AI faster than governance can keep up, and why treating AI ethics as “just a technical issue” is a costly mistake.
Episode 3: The Human Element of Cyber Risk: Training and Behaviour Change (Dr. James Kendrick, PhD, Graeme Abrahams)
If 95% of breaches involve human error, why isn't security awareness training working?
In this episode, Dr. James Kendrick and Graeme Abrahams (Fractional CISO, Magenta Cybersecurity) explain:
👉 Why compliance training fails
👉 What behaviour-change programs actually look like
👉 How to build a security culture that treats people as assets
Episode 4: Democratizing AI Security: Making AI Safe for All - AI Solutions (Ray Ybarra)
AI is already inside most businesses — often without leadership knowing it. In this episode, Ray Ybarra, VP at Mantek Solutions and 30-year AI implementation veteran, breaks down:
👉 What AI security really means for non-technical executives
👉 How data poisoning and model bias create business risk
👉 Why democratizing AI without governing it creates new vulnerabilities.
Episode 5: Democratizing AI Security: Making AI Safe for All - FinTech Sector (Raz Kotler)
AI democratization sounds like good news — until you realize that a small accounting firm with no IT team, no Chief AI Officer, and no legal review is deploying the same generative AI tools as global banks. In this episode, Raz Kotler — former Director of Cyber Security at PayPal, founder, and VC advisor — unpacks what democratizing AI actually means for organizations without enterprise-grade safeguards.
Episode 6: Post-Quantum Cryptography: Quantum Threats in the Defence Sector (Dr. Gustav Otto, PhD)
Every secure transaction you've ever made relies on math problems that quantum computers will soon be able to solve in hours. In this episode, Gustav Otto — former US Defence Official in Ottawa — explains
👉 Post-quantum cryptography in terms that CFOs and military leaders can act on
👉 Why adversaries are already executing "harvest now, decrypt later" strategies
👉 What organizations must do now to prepare
Episode 7: Cybersecurity as a Business Advantage: Supply Chain Security in a Global Economy (Cleber Cuzziol)
NotPetya turned a Ukrainian accounting software update into the most destructive cyberattack in history — $10 billion in damages, shutting down Maersk, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and chocolate factories simultaneously. SolarWinds gave Russian intelligence a backdoor into 18,000 organizations. The average company today has 5,800 third-party relationships. You're not protecting an organization. You're protecting an ecosystem you can barely see.
Episode 8: Democratizing AI Security: Cryptographic Systems in the Defence Sector (Lester Chng)
When a naval destroyer detects an incoming threat, everyone knows exactly what to do. When a 200-person manufacturer gets hit by ransomware, the CEO doesn't know who to call, the IT manager is panicking, and there's no drill. Same threat environment. Completely different readiness culture.
Episode 9: Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure: Lessons from Healthcare (Dr. Solomon Dotse )
The Change Healthcare ransomware attack didn't just disrupt systems — it delayed cancer treatments and shattered patient trust across America. In this episode, Dr. Solomon Dotse — a Ghanaian physician now specializing in healthcare analytics — examines what cyber resilience actually looks like in an interconnected global health system, and why trust, not just technology, determines whether health institutions survive a breach.
Episode 10: Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure: Lessons from Finance (Duncan Sandys)
When securities move to blockchain and payments cross borders in seconds, financial infrastructure becomes both more efficient and more exposed. In this episode, Duncan Sandys, CEO of Payments 20 (P20), examines:
👉 What cyber resilience means for global financial systems navigating AI fraud
👉 Quantum risk
👉 Cross-border accountability
👉 The tokenization revolution.
Episode 11: Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure: Supply Chain Security in Logistics (Ray Ybarra Jr.)
Modern supply chains are digital ecosystems — ERP platforms, IoT sensors, autonomous vehicles, and AI-powered logistics tools all connected and all potentially compromised. In this episode, Ray Ybarra Jr., security leader at PrevH with bi-national US-Mexico experience, explains
👉 How the convergence of physical and digital threats creates a security challenge most executives have never fully mapped
Episode 12: Cybersecurity as a Business Advantage: Turning Trust into Market Value - Venture Capital (Robin Bienfait)
Most boards still see cybersecurity as a cost center. Robin Bienfait — VC investor and former BlackBerry CIO — argues that's the wrong frame entirely. In this episode, she makes the business case for:
👉 How strong security drives revenue
👉 How investors evaluate security posture in due diligence
👉 How organizations can communicate security credibility without painting a target on their backs
Episode 13: Cybersecurity as a Business Advantage: Turning Trust into Market Value - Tourism & Hospitality (Richard Johnston)
The biggest hotel breaches in history didn't happen because of exotic attacks — they happened through reservation systems, payment terminals, and loyalty databases that thousands of hotel employees use every day. Richard Johnston, a 17-year hospitality operations veteran who also tested enterprise systems at the Department of National Defence, explains:
👉 Where hospitality security actually breaks down
👉 How operations leaders can fix it