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Will Collison

Will Collison

Interim Global Head of Cryptography at HSBC, a CISSP-qualified cyber security leader with over 20 years of experience in cryptography, PKI, and digital trust.

Sep 10, 2026

8:57
Given that you're leading the charge, maybe you can give some insights on how you've approached the leadership buy-in as you advocated and certainly keep advocating for that migration within your organization.
9:10
Yeah, absolutely.
9:11
Yeah.
9:11
So some of this is very unlikely to come from a cryptography side of the organization as a serious threat.
9:18
I'm not going to diminish my peers' roles.
9:21
I'm not going to diminish everybody else's roles, but I just want to sort of say a cryptographer sitting in a corner saying you need to do this about cryptography has a little less impulse than a CIO or a CEO saying, do this about cryptography.
9:36
The people who actually need to make these changes, this isn't something that's cryptography or cybersecurity can solve for a business.
10:56
And I think you raise a quite important point that is, I think, to a big part educational, right? Because oftentimes when you start talking about quantum, you trigger some specific thoughts in

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