Rob has worked at IBM for over 12 years and became the Security architect for IBM MQ in 2019. In this role, Rob is responsible for leading the design, development, and release of security features for IBM MQ. Over the past 6 years Rob has released several key features including: TLS 1.3 support and Token Based Authentication capabilities. Rob has a keen interest in cryptography, cybersecurity and is currently working towards certification as a Penetration Testing Specialist.
This session will bring together technical leaders looking to publish a standard (or quasi-standard) for performing end-to-end encryption across various messaging platforms.
Message-level encryption provides a higher grade of security for applications that use shared environments, multi-tenancy, and public cloud services. Currently, there is limited industry collaboration around definition of goals and publishing of specification or guidelines for applications to perform end-to-end encryption across various messaging protocols and platforms.
The goal of this session is to carry over drive-by conversations from MQ Summit 2025 and begin to lay down a roadmap.
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Quantum computers are emerging from science fiction into reality. Current industry predictions forecast that a quantum computer will break key encryption standards that protect today’s data within just eight years. Messaging systems are trusted to transport mission critical data and are therefore an obvious target for bad actors armed with these futuristic quantum tools. In this talk join Rob Parker, Security Architect for IBM MQ, as he explains: what the quantum threat is, why it is a concern right now, and what actions the industry as a whole are taking to protect our messaging systems from this emerging threat.
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