Blair Canavan | Director, Alliances – PQC Portfolio, Thales
Blair has 30+ years of cybersecurity sales, marketing and business development experience. Blair expanded his cybersecurity and cryptographic expertise with Symantec, several cyber start-ups including Chrysalis-ITS (Thales), Titus, Synopsys, InfoSec Global, Crypto4A and since September 2019, was recruited back to Thales’ Global Technology Alliances team, inclusive of the PKI & Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) portfolio. He is an avid public speaker, start-up consultant and IT industry contributor. Blair holds an Hons.BA from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.
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How to Become Quantum-Ready Today: Luna HSM v7.9 Delivers Real-World PQC, Validated by Thales PKI Technology Partners
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Thales PQC Partner Ecosystem Facilitates and Accelerates Quantum-Safe Migrations
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A New Era: Cybersecurity Implications of Quantum Computing
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