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

In this episode, Chris Swan, engineer at Atsign and security track host at QCon London, reflects on the ideas shared during QCon London 2026 and teases topics of the future edition. The discussion explores how security engineering is shifting from relying on human vigilance toward automated, system-level defences across the entire application stack. As well as the importance of governance and supply chain security in a world that sees rapid shifts toward machine-to-machine interaction.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Vg15sV

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