
Root Causes 568: Upping Your Certificate Game for Better Security
2026/1/16 | 12 mins.
Senior cyber security advisor Chris McGrath joins us to discuss redefining digital certificates and their role in your organizational security profile, increasing regulation of certificates, and how enterprises can up their certificate game.

Root Causes 567: Top 10 PQC Laggards in the Enterprise
2026/1/14 | 20 mins.
We name the ten enterprise environments and use cases that are most likely to be late adopters of post quantum cryptography (PQC).

Root Causes 566: Time Is a Security Primitive
2026/1/12 | 12 mins.
We discuss the foundational importance of time in PKI and security in general. This includes when things happen, the order in which things happen, and attacks based on time-spoofing. We drill down on certificates, roots, timestamping, Certificate Transparency, patching, audits, and PQC.

Root Causes 565: Our Response to QWAC Arguments - Part 3
2026/1/09 | 11 mins.
In our concluding episode on the topic, we scrutinize arguments make for and against QWACs, this time focused on "compliance and interoperability."

Root Causes 564: Our Response to QWAC Arguments - Part 2
2026/1/06 | 11 mins.
In our second of three episodes on the topic, we scrutinize arguments make for and against QWACs, this time focused on "governance and sovereignty."



Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast