In his day-to-day role, he advises advises organizations on Cybersecurity, AI and Cloud governance - aiming to help them improve their security posture, and move them past “paper tiger” compliance.
His current focus is on what AI does to three things: how people think, how systems get attacked, and how the world is governed. He often speaks about cognitive surrender and the erosion of judgment, AI agents running real intrusions, and the gaps in the rules meant to contain it. Throughout hundreds of talks and trainings, the goal has always remained the same: helping IT professionals make sound decisions on AI-driven threats, post-quantum cryptography, Zero Trust, and the move from traditional software development to the probabilistic world of AI development and the security challenges that come along with it, all under a growing pile of EU regulation.
Tudor Damian is a Certified Ethical Hacker and Microsoft MVP with 20+ years in IT.
Two clocks are running at once. Q-Day is when quantum computers break today's encryption, and under the EU's roadmap, high-risk use cases come off quantum-vulnerable crypto by 2030.
The other clock is AI: attackers run reconnaissance and lateral movement through agents faster than any human team. Anthropic's GTG-1002 report, published last year, put a clear number on it: up to 90% of a real intrusion, run by the model alone.
These things compound: HNDL (harvest now, decrypt later) means stolen data waits for Q-Day, and AI-speed attacks mean that data was already taken way before most teams noticed.
The session works through the path into a PQC migration, what defending against a machine-speed attacker looks like day to day, and how much crypto-agility the next transition demands.