Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights KW 37/38 2026

The quantum industry is shifting from laboratory milestones to manufacturing and policy commitments, with foundry investments, export controls and federal funding programs all landing in the same window. Cybersecurity spend and resilience data point to the same gap: recovery plans exist, but most organizations still cannot execute them under real conditions. Public sector and enterprise IT programs are converging on the same lesson, that modernization only pays off when it is managed as a business outcome rather than a technology delivery milestone.

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September 25, 2026

ICT & Tech Insights

Thomas Allgeyer

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Quantum Computing

DOE opened its Quantum Genesis Q Competition, offering up to 215 million dollars for systems with at least 100 logical qubits
IBM finalized a 1 billion dollar CHIPS Act award to build Anderon, its first stand alone 300mm quantum chip foundry
Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 2 chip and mandated PQC compliance across its systems by 2029
EPB launched the IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer, making Chattanooga the first US commercial quantum hub
Xanadu partnered with ASML on lithography, while Quantum Foundry Copenhagen is building a 390 million euro fabrication facility
NEC halted quantum hardware development, citing too long a path to commercial return
IDC's new report tracked over 100 enterprise quantum initiatives across seven industries and 20 vendors

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Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience

A malware attack on Suisun City, California took 46 days to fully recover from before City Hall reopened
Ransomware gang Shiny Hunters escalated against Cl0P and the FBI in the same week, breaking from typical gang discipline
The EU Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligations took effect, requiring incident reports within 72 hours
Accenture's majority investment in Dragos expanded with the acquisitions of runZero and NetRise for OT security
Cyera raised 400 million dollars from Goldman Sachs, while Jamf and Upwind Security made security acquisitions of their own
CrowdStrike's net new ARR hit 333 million dollars and Palo Alto Networks' security ARR reached 9.1 billion dollars
Rubrik launched Code Guardian, an agentic cyber resilience harness built with Anthropic on Claude Mythos 5

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Enterprise IT, Digital Transformation and Public Sector

Digital transformation succeeds only when managed as a business program, not just a technology implementation
Kyndryl was named a Leader across all five categories in the 2026 ISG Public Sector Services report
Ukraine and the Carpathian 8 nations export roughly 87 billion dollars in ICT services annually
Nebraska is building a whole of state cybersecurity model ahead of Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Nevada marked one year since a major cyberattack, citing stronger governance and infrastructure since
CISA's SIEM as a Service and CDM programs are scaling federal cyber defense through distributed architecture

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AI Infrastructure and Semiconductors

SambaNova closed the first tranche of a 1 billion dollar Series F at an 11 billion dollar valuation
Qualcomm opened Snapdragon Summit 2026 around always on, on device agentic AI rather than raw benchmarks
IBM signed a 240 million dollar deal with Together AI and a strategic partnership with OpenAI
Zebra and Elo are pushing customers to right size edge computing rather than build mini data centers everywhere
The EU Cyber Resilience Act now explicitly covers chips with security related functionality

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Thanks to Eric Kimberling, Tommy Flynn, Steve Suarez, Molly O'Shea, Cynthia Kaiser, Luke Wilwerding, K. Charles Janac, Keith King, Jay Gambetta, Bipul Sinha, Tim Kelly, Harpreet Sidhu, Mark Calderhead, Jack Shuang Hou, Timothy Galluzi, Bryce Bailey, Kurt Anderson, Jay Samit, John Prisco, Kirk Mettler, Darwin Salazar, Michael Rasmussen, Sergey O., Sanjay Poonen, Maria Shevchuk, Heather C. West, Chris H., Darryl E. Peek, George Schwartz and Steve McDowell, and everyone else who contributed insights to this edition. Find the full list of posts and voices on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-linkedin-cw-37-38-ict-tech-insights-thomas-allgeyer-bn0be?trackingId=izrtiwX%2BAvzL1kTj%2F06syg%3D%3D&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_recent_activity_content_view%3BIyUv6G4AQWy2hBiFt98Z4A%3D%3D

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Häufige Fragen

Schafft Quantencomputing den Sprung vom Labor in die Industrie?

Ja, über Fertigung, Förderung und Politik. IBM hat eine CHIPS-Act-Förderung über 1 Milliarde Dollar für Anderon finalisiert, seine erste eigenständige 300-mm-Foundry für Quantenchips. Das US-Energieministerium bietet bis zu 215 Millionen Dollar für Systeme mit mindestens 100 logischen Qubits, und Microsoft schreibt PQC-Konformität für seine Systeme bis 2029 vor.

Wie lange dauert die Erholung nach einem Ransomware-Angriff?

Oft Wochen. Nach einem Malware-Angriff auf Suisun City in Kalifornien dauerte es 46 Tage, bis das Rathaus wieder öffnete. Die Regulierung zieht an: Die Meldepflichten des EU Cyber Resilience Act verlangen inzwischen Vorfallsberichte innerhalb von 72 Stunden.

Warum scheitern Programme zur digitalen Transformation?

Weil sie als Technologieprojekte geführt werden. Transformation gelingt nur, wenn sie als Geschäftsprogramm gesteuert wird, nicht als technischer Meilenstein. Im öffentlichen Sektor wurde Kyndryl im ISG Public Sector Services Report 2026 in allen fünf Kategorien als Leader eingestuft, und Nebraska baut ein landesweites Cybersecurity-Modell auf.