Friday, the White House unveiled a new national cybersecurity strategy.
This represents a shift towards proactive deterrence against nation states ransomware gangs as well as transnational criminal organizations.
Now Trump also issuing an instructing federal agencies to target cyber threats such as phishing, malware and ransomware.
The White House strategy also promotes public-private partnerships as well as info sharing and.
Commercial tools all while supporting crypto and blockchain security and countering for AI censorship ransomware is projected to cost victims $275 billion by 2031.
So what does resilience look like in a world running headfirst into artificial intelligence.
Well joining me live here at the New York Stock Exchange is Youssef El Maddarsi, co-founder and CBO of Naoris Protocol.
You have great here.
You so much for joining me.
Thank you for having me.
Well, cybersecurity used to be considered something that was purely defensive, so what does resilience actually look like in 2026?
Today I would say that resilience is no longer a perimeter around your infrastructure, but should be continuous validation, quantum readiness, and business continuity above all, and that comes with first and foremost being able to trust continuously your infrastructure.
Yes and when we think about enterprises and the challenges that they face in this day and age, what would you say to them are the top priorities that they should be focusing on?
I would say first of all they should decentralize their surface of risk in the sense they should leverage their infrastructure to protect them and not what is currently happening in most systems today in systems you have what we call a single point of failure.
That means if I'm an attacker I attack one device and take over everything.
That's no longer resilient and it's not working.
This is why we see the cost of cyber increasing so much.
And when we take a look at cybersecurity, the role that nation states play, we know that the White House just released its three-page strategy.
So give us your key takeaways from that.
My key takeaways is that we're going into what we call a post-quantum world.
That means there's going to be a quantum singularity event happening.
Within the next few years.
Now in my world we like to joke and say that every day we're 6 months closer to that even and once that's there we will need to have everything running on post quantum cryptography and this is something that the White House strategy has emphasized on massively and that includes everything from infrastructure to network to identities.
Everything should be.
And while I have you here you said I do want to ask you about the role of artificial intelligence here on Wall Street, of course we're paying attention to how AI affects all industries of the listed companies here but give us your take on the role that artificial intelligence plays cyber.
Security AI can be an ally and can be a vector of massive threats.
Today you have what we call polymorphic threats that change through AI.
That means that a threat changes continuously as it evolves in attacking scenarios.
Again, I will go back to what I said.
We need to be able to trust our infrastructure through decentralization, quantum cryptography, and validate continuously integrity of devices, network systems, and health of the.
And in this hyperconnected world we know that there are many risks out there, but I do want to get your take on the risks that outages actually pose.
So what can businesses do?
Businesses should first of all adopt the post quantum framework in the sense maybe start with protecting their.
Identities because identity is the root of every single risk in cyber.
Then move into their communication systems, namely VPN, TLS, system to system communication, and finish with end points.
But again, I can't emphasize that enough.
Trust should be the core and you should be able to.
Trust your infrastructure through consensus and finally before I let you go, we have less than 60 seconds here.
So finally in terms of innovations when it comes to cybersecurity, what are you looking at and what are we looking at looking at how to solve what we call the single point of failure which is inherited by every single system today.
We're looking at doing that through blockchain and decentralization.
Now people use that technology simply for validating transactions.
What we think it should be used for is to validate the integrity and state of devices, hardware, firmware, software, digital processes, all data across its life cycle.
So that's half of it.
The other half is.
Cryptography.
We believe quantum is coming just like meteors strike the Earth back then and extinguished dinosaurs.
If we're not ready for that, it's back to the Stone Age.
No one can afford that.
We will have to leave it there as we are approaching the market open here at the New York Stock Exchange.
So thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
My pleasure.
