Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 21/ 22

Organisations moved decisively from incident response to continuous threat modelling, framing standing privileged access as the primary breach vector

Microsoft and CrowdStrike introduced a unified threat-actor taxonomy, streamlining cross-vendor intelligence and accelerating defender response

Microsoft also launched its European Security Program, offering no-cost hardening services to public-sector entities and critical infrastructure operators

Ransomware discourse centred on SMEs, highlighting affordable zero-trust blueprints and managed-detection options tailored to resource-constrained teams

Boards elevated quantum risk to a strategic agenda, warning of a “quantum time bomb” that could retroactively compromise today’s encrypted data

Practitioners outlined Post-Quantum GRC frameworks mapping NIST/CNSA-2 milestones to enterprise risk registers and procurement plans

CISA urged federal agencies to adopt “harvest now, decrypt later” mitigations, driving suppliers to accelerate quantum-safe pilot projects

Experts predicted that mixed-mode encryption, key-management overhaul, and wallet-grade hardware roots of trust will dominate transitional budgets

A seven-stage compliance playbook gained traction among product teams, stressing early legal alignment, automated evidence capture, and cross-functional ownership

Data-governance leaders reframed canonical datasets and validated metadata as prerequisites for reliable GenAI deployments

Health-tech executives underlined stakeholder orchestration, rather than feature velocity, as the decisive success factor in regulated markets

API stewards shifted from static documentation to policy-as-code enforcement, enabling real-time control of third-party exposure

Vodafone’s PaCon showcased partner-led monetisation models for 5G and network APIs, positioning co-marketing as a growth multiplier

Schwarz Digits joined the “Next Level Mittelstand” initiative to accelerate German SME digitalisation through curated cloud and security stacks

AFCEA Bonn underscored rising demand for secure, high-availability connectivity tailored to defence and public-sector mandates

CIO roundtables highlighted the widening gap between procurement cost mandates and outcome-based value creation, urging a pivot to total-impact metrics

Thought leaders warned that perpetual “firefighting” cripples innovation velocity; freeing capacity for controlled experimentation is now a board priority

Access-management experts argued that smarter privilege policies beat incremental hardware spend in closing high-value attack paths

Supply-chain strategists called for granular software-dependency tracking to mitigate “shadow” vulnerabilities introduced by offshore dev teams and contractors

A shift in US export rules recast licensing from geography-based to performance-threshold criteria, prompting vendors to redesign next-gen AI accelerators

Analysts flagged emerging divergence between US and China AI supply chains, anticipating tighter oversight of sovereign AI capabilities and cloud adjacency

Security-by-Design advocates pressed for embedding hardware-level controls in AI/IoT silicon rather than relying on post-deployment endpoint agents