The market rewards speed over security, and most executive teams are making resource decisions accordingly, but that trade-off becomes existential when adversaries are stockpiling encrypted data and quantum computing is approaching viability.

Kathryn Wang is the Principal Public Sector Lead at SandboxAQ, CEO of CTRL+Alt+Defeat,io, and a board advisor whose career spans cybersecurity partnerships, defense technology, and national security. In this conversation, she and MK Palmore work through why AI's biggest enterprise impact so far has been workforce reduction rather than workforce amplification, how counterfeit and trojanized hardware exposes the limits of compliance frameworks like the software bill of materials, and why post-quantum cryptography should be treated as an urgent priority rather than a future concern.

Kathryn shares her framework for cutting through the noise: identify your existential threat, lock down your crown jewels, and stop distributing limited security resources across a perimeter you cannot fully defend.

Things You Will Learn:

1. Why identifying and securing your organization's crown jewels is the highest-leverage move when you're outgunned and under-resourced.
2. How the gap between compliance requirements and actual security effectiveness is widening, and why compliance theater remains a structural problem even at the federal level.
3. What post-quantum cryptography means for enterprise data protection and why the ”harvest now, decrypt later” threat model demands action today.

Tools & Frameworks Covered:

1. Crown Jewel Prioritization: Identify what will shut the company down, determine what adversaries actually want, and concentrate protection there rather than spreading resources across the full perimeter.
2. Measured Optimism on AI Adoption: A decision lens for evaluating AI use: what is the job to be done, how does the tool help, and what are the ways you can injure yourself with it — versus treating AI as a hammer and looking for glass to break.
3. Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness: The strategic imperative to ensure crown jewel data cannot be ransomed or decrypted when quantum computing reaches viability, given that adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data for future decryption.

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