Yakeen Prabdial is the Chief Technology Officer at Pairpoint, a joint venture between Vodafone and Sumitomo Corporation that provides the security backbone for the Economy of Things (EoT). While the EoT enables autonomous transactions between billions of devices, Pairpoint ensures these interactions are anchored in a Hardware Root of Trust.
With a career built at the intersection of telecommunications, digital transformation and secure digital ecosystems, Yakeen leads the technical vision for platforms that enable trusted, autonomous transactions between billions of IoT devices.
At Pairpoint, Yakeen has been instrumental in the development of SecurePOINT, a hardware-anchored security solution that leverages the SIM as a root of trust. By moving away from complex PKI and certificate-based architectures, Yakeen’s work provides a direct answer to the upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requirements- enabling manufacturers to implement ""Security by Design"" and robust lifecycle management without the traditional overhead of manual certificate rotation.
Yakeen is a leading advocate for Quantum-Safe IoT architectures, specializing in symmetric-key cryptography and automated, agile resilience. His expertise is particularly relevant for companies navigating the stringent documentation and vulnerability management mandates of the CRA, NIS2, and RED, ensuring that the next generation of connected products is secure against both current and future cryptographic threats.