Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 23/ 24

Over the last two weeks the ICT conversation on LinkedIn converged on three imperatives: securing today’s infrastructure through Zero Trust, preparing for tomorrow’s quantum‐enabled workloads, and scaling digital value chains via data‐driven ecosystems.

Date

June 4, 2025

ICT & Tech Insights

Thomas Allgeyer

Methodology: Every two weeks we collect most relevant posts on LinkedIn for selected topics and create an overall summary only based on these posts. If you´re interested in the single posts behind, you can find them here: https://linktr.ee/thomasallgeyer. Have a great read!

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Cybersecurity

Board‑room urgency rises as financial institutions and critical sectors escalate Zero Trust adoption; Microsoft and NIST NCCoE released a practitioner guide that translates high‑level doctrine into control blueprints
Security leaders emphasise rapid incident response and continuous evidence capture to maintain legal defensibility as threat dwell‑time shrinks
User‑experience emerges as a hidden risk factor: poor interface design erodes policy compliance and amplifies insider threat surface
Cross‑skilling programmes gain traction in government IT, signalling a pivot from siloed expertise to agile, domain‑integrated teams

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Quantum Computing

IBM set a 2029 target for Quantum Starling, a fault‑tolerant machine designed for 100 million logical operations, framing a clear enterprise timeline for post‑NISQ capabilities
NVIDIA and other industry voices declared quantum at an “inflection point,” pointing to accelerated funding, hardware roadmaps and cloud integrations
Comparative benchmarks illustrated China’s latest processor outperforming Google’s previous milestone by six orders of magnitude, intensifying the tech‑sovereignty race
Practitioners highlighted hybrid architectures where quantum optimises simulation and optimisation workloads while classical systems retain transactional processing

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Digital Transformation & Policy

EU initiatives – Digital Decade metrics, Digital Identity Wallet and the forthcoming Digital Product Passport – reposition regulation as a catalyst for data‑centric business models rather than a compliance burden
Formula 1 and other high‑velocity industries showcased data‑driven operating models as templates for broader transformation agendas
Telecom operators explore B2B ICT marketplaces to monetise network assets and move beyond connectivity into platform economics

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Data, AI & IoT

Posts spotlight IoT deployments delivering predictive maintenance, cost reduction and richer customer insight, reinforcing the link between sensor data and revenue growth
“Product responsibility for data” emerged as a governance pattern, embedding data stewards within operational teams to accelerate insight‑to‑action cycles
AI agents with broad permissions prompted renewed focus on granular privilege management to balance innovation with control

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Space & Satellite Connectivity

The European Space Agency and Hispasat announced a partnership to expand resilient broadband coverage, underlining satellite’s role in closing digital‑divide gaps and supporting edge analytics use‑cases

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