Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 43/ 44
AI has compressed the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, and PHP2Shell became the reference case that moved security leaders from patch-and-recover toward exposure management, autonomous prevention and prioritized resilience. The same compression shows in quantum, where falling qubit estimates for breaking RSA-2048 and new NIST migration deadlines turn post-quantum cryptography into a funded planning item, while Intel's Classiq deal and IonQ's security acquisition show capital moving toward the software and security layers. Regulators and infrastructure operators are responding with expectations of continuous readiness, from ENISA's SBOM guidance to grid-independent military bases.
Date
November 6, 2026
ICT & Tech Insights
Thomas Allgeyer

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Cyber resilience and AI-accelerated threats

  • PHP2Shell: only a patched PHP runtime closes the exposure
  • 58,000 new CVEs this year versus 300,000 over 26 years
  • AI-chained bugs make resilience the key metric
  • Weekly patch cycles cannot match exploitation in minutes
  • At agent scale, product efficacy beats marketing
  • Resilience Economics asks what must survive an attack
  • Upwind raises a $400M Series C, lifting 2026 funding to $650M

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Critical infrastructure and OT security

  • FORTRESS America: U.S. bases to generate independent power
  • UK urges households to prepare for three days without essentials
  • FBI and EPA warn of attacks on water utility controllers
  • MITRE ATT&CK adds one ICS technique and eight sub-techniques
  • Hospital resilience means patient care continues during outages
  • Project Lifeline 250 hardens rural South Carolina hospitals
  • Toronto panel asks which systems must keep running under attack

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Post-quantum cryptography

  • Alice & Bob: 22,593 cat qubits could break RSA-2048
  • NIST sets federal PQC deadlines of 2030 to 2035
  • Harvest now, decrypt later makes crypto agility urgent
  • A Cryptographic Bill of Materials is the first migration step
  • Cryptographic Transition Studies proposed as a new field
  • EU roadmap targets quantum-safe critical infrastructure by 2030
  • IonQ buys a cybersecurity firm for up to $1.3 billion

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Quantum computing: deals, hardware and research

  • Intel to acquire Classiq in a reported $2 billion plus deal
  • IonQ wins $7.5M AFRL follow-on and HSBC trade data results
  • Claude Mythos 5 reportedly cuts circuit gates 17 times
  • Google hits 99.99% logical fidelity on Willow
  • Shor's algorithm hardware estimates fall over 40,000 times
  • Deloitte's quantum-inspired engine runs 70% faster than Monte Carlo
  • Deep tech makes up 26 of 84 de-SPACs in 2026

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Regulation and standards

  • ENISA publishes a 31-page SBOM advisory for CRA readiness
  • Advisory maps CISA SBOM elements against Germany's BSI standard
  • Only 14% receive the full SBOM analysis 24% need
  • Incomplete dependencies weaken SBOM quality
  • ISO 27001 certification does not equal DORA compliance
  • OT training standards span NIS2, IEC 62443 and NERC CIP
  • Awareness Month 2026 calls for continuous resilience

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AI infrastructure and data centers

  • PsiQuantum's optical switch shows 1.2 dB loss for AI data centers
  • Optical switching removes power-hungry light to electron conversions
  • Google targets computing limits with TPUs and optical switches
  • Liquid and immersion cooling gain traction in AI data centers
  • Qatar builds a $20 billion AI ecosystem
  • IBM Think Mumbai 2026 puts sovereign AI and quantum on the agenda

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