Chaitanya Challa
Chaitanya is the Director of Product Management at AppViewX, where she leads the company's strategy across AI, Machine Identity Security, crypto-agility, and core platform capabilities. She drives the development of intelligent, policy-driven products that use AI and automation to discover risk, predict failure, and orchestrate remediation across cryptographic assets and machine identities in large-scale hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
A senior product executive known for building and scaling enterprise security platforms, she brings deep expertise in data security, encryption, and threat management. She specializes in translating complex, emerging technologies into market-defining products that deliver measurable business outcomes.
Previously at IBM, she led the zero-to-one creation of IBM Guardium Cryptography Manager, taking the product from concept to enterprise-ready launch in under six months by aligning a 100+ member globally distributed team across product, engineering, research, and go-to-market. She was recognized as IBM Top 1% technical talent. Earlier, she led product management for IBM QRadar, a flagship threat detection platform driving innovation, global adoption, and industry thought leadership.
Her mission is to elevate security from a reactive control to a strategic, intelligence-led business capability, reducing operational complexity and strengthening cyber resilience for enterprises navigating the quantum era. She began her career as a developer and tech lead with IBM Sterling OMS and IBM Kenexa BrassRing, grounding her leadership in strong technical depth.
Director - AI Security, Cryptoagility, NHI
AppViewX
Session
Two tectonic shifts are converging to rewrite the rules of digital security and most organizations are not ready for either.
Quantum computing is advancing toward cryptographically relevant scale, threatening to shatter the RSA and elliptic-curve foundations that protect virtually every digital transaction today. Simultaneously, the rise of Agentic AI is unleashing fleets of autonomous software agents that act, decide, and communicate across systems -none of which have passports, no conventional way to authenticate them, and an attack surface that grows with every delegation chain.
The response to both threats converges on the same two disciplines: cryptography and identity. But traditional approaches designed for human users, static workloads, and long-lived certificates were never built for this world.
This session argues that what we need is not just stronger algorithms, but a fundamental rethinking of how trust works: trust that is algorithm-agnostic (crypto-agile), trust that extends to machine and AI actors, and trust that can be composed, delegated, and revoked across dynamic, multi-party pipelines at machine speed.
We will examine the real threat timelines for quantum cryptographic attacks, the identity and authorization gaps exposed by agentic AI architectures, how modern trust frameworks must evolve to address both simultaneously, and what a practical crypto-agility strategy looks like from NIST PQC algorithm adoption to SPIFFE/SVID-based machine identity and zero-trust policy enforcement.
Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of why these two threats are linked, an architectural blueprint for a post-quantum, agentic-ready trust stack, and concrete steps to begin the migration journey today.