Agility, Compliance, Resilience: Rethinking Cryptography in the Age of Digital Trust

Daniel Sutherland, Regional Vice President at DigiCert, focuses on the evolving role of cryptography in enabling digital trust across Australia and New Zealand, where the company supports around 6,000 customers with a team of 100. Dan highlights the growing complexity of securing edge devices, IoT environments, and machine identities, which now outnumber human identities by 50 to 1. Over the past decade, cryptography has shifted from a background function to a core enabler of digital transformation, with organisations increasingly relying on encryption and identity management to protect sensitive systems and data. Yet, governance gaps persist in related areas like AI, with 62% of organisations still operating with basic or minimal controls and only 3% having automated decision-making for governance, leaving initiatives exposed to poor data quality and unclear accountability.

Dan emphasises two key industry shifts that are driving the need for crypto agility: shorter TLS certificate validity periods, which introduce…