Brian Trzupek on The Race to Secure the AI-Driven Enterprise | Ep 1289
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Brian Trzupek discusses building digital trust in AI-driven enterprises and the importance of security frameworks.
In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Brian Trzupek, Senior Vice President of Product at DigiCert, to explore what it means to build digital trust in a world where AI agents are multiplying faster than anyone can track them. Brian opens with a career arc that spans founding Creduware, fighting cybercrime at Trustwave, and testifying before Congress on the 2013 Target breach — experiences that sharpened his ability to translate deeply technical security concepts for non-technical audiences, from policymakers to boardrooms. He then unpacks DigiCert's agent passport framework, a four-layer cryptographically signed credential combining identity, policy, lineage, and ownership that gives enterprises the one thing they want most from their AI deployments: a kill switch. With some customers deploying four hundred agents per week and hundreds of MCP servers per quarter, the ability to find, identify, and stop a misbehaving agent is no longer theoretical — it is urgent. The conversation then turns to quantum readiness, where Brian makes the case that the first move is always inventory — you cannot protect what you do not know you have — and…
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