<p>Hello and welcome to our podcast series, <em>Coffee with the Council</em>. I&#39;m Andrew Jamieson, VP, Distinguished Standards Architect for the PCI Security Standards Council. And I&#39;ll be your host today for an exciting panel discussion about the current state of cryptography.</p><p>I&#39;m joined today by some cryptography experts, who I originally brought together at the 2025 North America Community Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas. You&#39;re going to hear a very good discussion today. I invite you to visit our Global Content Library on YouTube to view the full session if you&#39;re interested.</p><p>My guests for this episode are Richard Kisley, Chief Engineer IBM HSM, for IBM Corporation; Jillian Benedick, Cryptographer, Atalla, of Utimaco; Joachim Vance, Chief Security Architect, of Verifone; and finally, Steven Bowles, Regional Security Officer - North America, for Ingenico. </p>