Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 43/ 44

Agentic AI raised new attack surfaces, prompting layered defenses and governance alignment

Zero Trust remained the anchor narrative for modern enterprise protection across industries

Boards reframed cyber from technical checklist to core business risk with resilience KPIs

AI was positioned as both attacker and defender, accelerating threat velocity and response automation

Telecoms treated cybersecurity as a profit engine, linking investments to service differentiation

NVIDIA’s NVQLink concept paired quantum processors with GPUs for hybrid quantum-AI acceleration

Europe’s ecosystem signaled depth across talent, startups, and applied research trajectories

Post-quantum security moved from “Y2Q” headlines to pragmatic compliance and crypto agility

Materials and stability advances, including novel qubit approaches, suggested improved scalability

Industrial perspectives emphasized provable algorithms and real optimization gains over hype

Data centers reappeared on board agendas as strategic assets for AI scale and continuity

Edge computing enabled hybrid patterns by pushing processing closer to data creation

Collaboration talk pointed to a large new data center footprint in Munich targeting enterprises

Operational excellence stories underscored managed services value in regulated, mission-critical sites

Sovereign positioning and locality requirements shaped capacity planning and partner choices

Trusted data foundations were framed as prerequisites for AI value and developer velocity

Lakehouse and real-time pipelines remained central to decision latency and operational insight

Governance narratives linked data quality, lineage, and access to security outcomes

Dashboarding and applied BI were recast as alignment tools for P&L-level decision making

Convergence of applications, data, and AI emerged as the reference stack for modernization

SAP TechEd messaging focused on empowering developers with AI atop trusted transactional data

Real-time ERP integration with Kafka highlighted streaming as the integration default

Aerospace manufacturing case work showcased digital thread benefits from design to production

Quality management systems moved from paperwork to continuous improvement and adoption

Platform roadmaps anchored on composability and clean core principles for change resilience

Vodafone partnered with Iridium to extend IoT through satellite for remote and critical coverage

Connectivity strategy prioritized resilient backup paths for mission-critical communications

5G, edge, and satellite were positioned as complementary layers for industrial reliability

Device and sensor proliferation reinforced the need for unified observability and control

Security-first architectures were tied to identity, segmentation, and encrypted telemetry

The EU Data Act aimed to reduce switching barriers for data processing services

European data sovereignty narratives backed initiatives like T Cloud Public

Reports documented escalating threats, urging faster adoption of modern controls

Compliance shifted from static audits to continuous control monitoring and evidence readiness

Supply chain and residency requirements influenced hyperscaler and local provider selection

Platform teams emphasized paved roads for secure delivery and default guardrails

Event-driven designs and APIs reinforced decoupling and real-time responsiveness

SRE practices tied reliability objectives directly to customer and revenue outcomes

Developer experience was treated as a productivity lever, not a tooling catalog

Observability maturity linked telemetry to faster incident resolution and hard cost avoidance