Hardware Is the Hidden Risk: Ferhat Yaman on PQC, Side-Channel Attacks, and AI Privacy

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As post-quantum cryptography moves from theory to hardware, organizations can no longer afford to ignore the physical layer of security. In this episode of Shielded: The Last Line of Cyber Defense , host Johannes Lintzen speaks with Ferhat Yaman, security researcher at AMD’s Product Security Office, to explore how electromagnetic side-channel attacks, hybrid cryptography, and AI privacy are reshaping the future of secure system design. They discuss the risks of leakage in post-quantum implementations, the challenge of model theft in AI accelerators, and why mitigation needs to start before silicon is even taped out. From masking and shuffling to pre-silicon testing and homomorphic encryption, Ferhat offers a candid and deeply technical look at what it means to build quantum-resilient systems in hardware, not just in code.