Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 05/ 06

Zero Trust and identity centric architectures move into execution with strong authentication, conditional access and passwordless experiences

European regulators sharpen the baseline with submarine cable protection, the Cyber Resilience Act and a reinforced ENISA strategy

Critical infrastructure in rail, aviation and renewables treats cyber resilience as core safety, adopting security by design and sector specific guidance

Gaps in culture, skills and IoT security persist while AI driven defense and extended security platforms show that people, process and tooling must evolve together

AI agents shift from copilots to operators, taking over cloud management tasks and shaping AI native enterprise architectures

Digital sovereignty debates move beyond data location toward who governs AI platforms, models and localized LLM ecosystems

Growing AI autonomy forces new governance for machine identities, converged control planes and clear accountability for agent decisions

Financial and industrial incumbents position AI as a transformation lever, balancing innovation with rigorous monitoring while new Munich based hubs and an Industrial AI Cloud channel partner led solution development

Post quantum security rises on the agenda as providers and researchers urge early adoption of quantum safe cryptography

Investor narratives and innovation hubs present Europe as an emerging quantum cluster while gaps remain where national ecosystems are still missing

Hardware advances span superconducting integration, trapped ion networking labs and functional quantum systems that move beyond theoretical roadmaps

A new European quantum data center and national strategies recast quantum as infrastructure for competitiveness and security, with convergence of AI and quantum framed as a future leadership play

Architects advocate integrated toolchains across ITSM, observability, security and FinOps to manage multi cloud complexity end to end

Serverless architectures gain traction as a way to encode infrastructure choices into event driven functions and streamline operations

Data leaders stress that semantics, management and governance, rather than raw volume, determine whether architectures deliver decision ready insight

Geopolitical fractures translate into operational risk for smaller firms, complicating international growth beyond classic malware scenarios

European policymakers and practitioners call for a shift from risk avoidance toward an innovation culture grounded in curiosity and courageous leadership

Innovation centers, partner summits and industry forums in Munich and across Europe are used to co design market ready digital solutions with clients and partners

Regional ecosystems such as Poland’s cybersecurity scene show how focused clusters and marketplaces can accelerate local innovation, talent visibility and execution readiness