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Jason Soroko
Fellow at Sectigo
Jason has 20 years of experience researching, innovating, educating markets, developing intellectual property, and contributing to national-level guidance and consortium standards. He works closely with enterprise companies daily to synthesize managed PKI security solutions that meet real-world operational needs.

Jason Soroko is a seasoned security technology innovator and Senior Fellow at Sectigo, where he leads customer-facing engagements, drives research, and spearheads strategic initiatives at both organizational and national levels. He also contributes to the development of intellectual property and consortium standards. As co-host of the award-winning “Root Causes” podcast, Jason educates professionals on the latest trends in PKI and cybersecurity twice a week. His core strength is bridging cutting-edge security methods with real-world operational needs, ensuring that businesses are equipped with practical, forward-thinking solutions.
Recent Posts from Jason Soroko
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EPISODE 473
Broadcast Date:
March 28, 202510 minutes
Podcasts UpcomingRoot Causes 473: Does Security Software Lack Creativity?
Jason reports on a 2024 Black Hat keynote about how modern software development practices inhibit innovation and invention.
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EPISODE 479
Broadcast Date:
March 21, 202513 minutes
Podcasts Mar 21, 2025Root Causes 479: AI Adversarial Machine Learning
In this episode we discuss the thinking on how adversaries can exploit the flaws in AI models to achieve unexpected and dangerous results. We explore some potential paths of defense against attacks of this sort.
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EPISODE 478
Broadcast Date:
March 17, 202516 minutes
Podcasts Mar 17, 2025Root Causes 478: Should We All Switch from RSA to ECC?
RSA is under attack. Even without the quantum threat, we face the possibility of smart new exploits reducing the viable RSA key space and rendering it unsafe. In this episode we discuss the merits of choosing ECC over RSA as soon as today.
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EPISODE 477
Broadcast Date:
March 13, 202518 minutes
Podcasts Mar 13, 2025Root Causes 477: Comparative Security Philosophies
We discuss how various popular computing platforms approach security and highlight the differences between them.
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EPISODE 476
Broadcast Date:
March 10, 202517 minutes
Podcasts Mar 10, 2025Root Causes 476: The Need for Security KPIs
Jason recounts a 2024 Black Hat talk about the need for objective measurements of our IT defenses and whether the good guys or bad guys are winning. Jason breaks down how to define and measure the impact of security measures.
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EPISODE 475
Broadcast Date:
March 6, 202518 minutes
Podcasts Mar 06, 2025Root Causes 475: Can Your AI Scheme Against You?
It's the stuff of science fiction! Interesting research shows how today's AI technology is capable of lying to and scheming against its human owners in service of its goals.
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EPISODE 474
Broadcast Date:
March 3, 202520 minutes
Podcasts Mar 03, 2025Root Causes 474: Explaining Shor's Algorithm
We talk a lot about Shor's Algorithm in our discussion of post quantum cryptography (PQC). In this episode Jason explains Shor's algorithm for non-quantum physicists.
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EPISODE 472
Broadcast Date:
February 26, 202511 minutes
Podcasts Feb 26, 2025Root Causes 472: AI Offensive Modeling
AI tools are now available to perform red-teaming activity for DevSecOps. Such tools are soon to be table stakes in the constantly escalating IT security arms race. Join us to learn more.
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Webinars Feb 25, 2025Learn, test and implement: your path to quantum readiness
Experts predict that by 2030, a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could decrypt sensitive data and communications - considered safely encrypted.