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Best of LinkedIn: ICT & Tech Insights CW 37/ 38 · Best of LinkedIn: Digital Transformation & Tech

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  Speaker 1: This Steam dive is provided by Thomas Allgeier and Frennis, based on the most relevant LinkedIn posts about ICT and tech insights in CW-Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's jump right in.
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  Speaker 1: We're taking a deep dive into the biggest ICT and tech trends popping up on LinkedIn over the last couple of weeks, calendar weeks, thirty seven and thirty
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  Speaker 0: eight.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, and looking at the sources, two big things really stood out.
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  Speaker 0: First, this intense pressure really to harden the digital core against all these escalating attacks.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 0: And second, keeping an eye on these well looming discontinuities in compute and cryptography.
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  Speaker 0: Big shifts coming.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: So our mission here for you listening is basically to boil down the key strategic takeaways from all that chatter.
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  Speaker 0: Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: We're focusing on how you actually do zero trust, what the real world impact of quantum is today, not just hypothetically, and how to build that resilience.
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  Speaker 0: you need to, frankly, survive the next wave of big cyber threats.
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  Speaker 0: We want you to get the critical insights without getting buried in information.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so theme A has to be cybersecurity, and specifically Zero Trust or ZT.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like it's just table stakes now.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 0: No longer a trend, it's the foundation.
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  Speaker 0: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 0: John Kinderveg introduced that core idea.
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  Speaker 0: Never trust, always verify, what, fifteen years ago?
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  Speaker 0: Fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's just essential.
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  Speaker 1: You can't run these hyper-connected systems without it.
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  Speaker 1: And it
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  Speaker 0: really forces a shift in thinking about access.
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  Speaker 0: Antonio Veeh put it really well, I thought.
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  Speaker 0: He said Zero Trust isn't really about saying no all the time.
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  Speaker 0: It's about building the systems that let you confidently say yes securely, which means continuous verification.
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  Speaker 0: Always checking.
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  Speaker 0: Like NIST SP-E-A-H-R-O-T-O-S-E-V-O-N lays out.
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  Speaker 0: Access isn't static.
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  Speaker 0: Continuous
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  Speaker 1: verification.
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  Speaker 1: But what if you don't get it right?
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  Speaker 1: The costs are, well, they're eye-watering.
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  Speaker 1: Jane Franklin pointed this out with the cooperative group.
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  Speaker 0: Oh yeah, that was a big one.
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  Speaker 0: An eighty million loss.
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  Speaker 1: and just the first half of the year following an attack, that proves this isn't just some IT headache.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: That number, eighty million pounds, it totally reframes the risk, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 0: It's not just cleanup cost.
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  Speaker 0: It's business continuity.
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  Speaker 0: It's a direct hit to the finances.
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  Speaker 0: Something you report to shareholders immediately.
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  Speaker 0: It's C-suite level stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you see the knock-on effects in these super specialized, you know, efficiency-driven systems, like that Collins Aerospace ransomware attack.
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  Speaker 1: Marcello Devonso flagged that one.
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  Speaker 1: It reportedly it grows European airport systems for seventy-two hours.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, three days.
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  Speaker 0: That's not just a delay.
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  Speaker 0: That's critical infrastructure going down.
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  Speaker 0: It's terrifying.
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  Speaker 0: It really is.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: And it shows how these highly connected efficient systems can accidentally create these really dangerous single points of failure.
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  Speaker 0: Devonzo even mentioned a warning about a potential six hundred percent surge in aviation cyber attacks.
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  Speaker 1: A hundred percent between twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: That's
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  Speaker 0: the projection he cited.
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  Speaker 0: So it really hammers home why Zero Trust has to cover the whole supply chain, not just your own core systems.
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  Speaker 1: So, okay, if ZT is the architecture, what's the key enforcement tool?
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  Speaker 1: Timur Iblal made a strong case for identity and access management, IAM.
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  Speaker 1: He called it maybe the most underrated service.
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  Speaker 0: Oh, definitely underrated.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: But maybe the highest leverage control you have.
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  Speaker 0: Because if you ignore IAM, you end up with roles that have way too many permissions.
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  Speaker 0: Right.
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  Speaker 0: And those over-permission roles, that's how attackers move laterally.
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  Speaker 0: This is the main thing ZT is trying to stop.
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  Speaker 0: You need least privilege to be like how things actually work, not just a policy written down somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And that least privileged thinking, it needs to go beyond human users now, right?
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  Speaker 1: Especially with AI agents becoming more common.
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  Speaker 0: Absolutely critical.
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  Speaker 0: Dimitri Tepper was talking about this move towards just in time, or JIT access enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: JIT access.
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  Speaker 1: So what's different
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  Speaker 0: there?
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  Speaker 0: It's not just giving access when someone requests it.
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  Speaker 0: It's continuous enforcement based on live conditions.
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  Speaker 0: Like, what's the user's risk score right now?
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  Speaker 0: Ah,
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  Speaker 1: okay, dynamics.
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  Speaker 0: Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: And why that's so important for AI, particularly things like our Ag agents, you know, the ones pulling external data for generative models.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: Well, traditional provisioning is slow.
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  Speaker 0: It's clunky, lots of overhead.
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  Speaker 0: It just doesn't make sense for these non-human agents that might need very specific access for a very short time.
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  Speaker 0: Andrew Fraser actually warned that these AI agents could be security disasters waiting to happen if they don't have super granular JIT privileges.
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  Speaker 1: Security disasters waiting to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, scary thought.
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  Speaker 1: So let's say you've got ZT, you've got IAM tightened up, but things still go wrong sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Humans are involved.
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  Speaker 0: Always.
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  Speaker 1: So when a breach does happen, how do you handle that chaos effectively?
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  Speaker 1: This gets into operational discipline, right?
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, and Rob McGowan have this brilliant analogy.
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  Speaker 0: He compared a really good breach response.
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  Speaker 0: to a NASCAR pit stop.
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  Speaker 0: A
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  Speaker 1: pit stop?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
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  Speaker 0: Think about it, four, maybe six people.
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  Speaker 0: Everyone knows their exact job.
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  Speaker 0: No time to discuss, just immediate coordinated action.
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  Speaker 0: It's all muscle memory from practice, from drills.
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  Speaker 0: That's the only way to minimize the damage when things go sideways fast.
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  Speaker 1: Muscle memory.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the culture has to support that speed and crucially transparency.
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  Speaker 1: Laura Vaughn highlighted sofos after one of their senior people got fished, even bypassed MFA.
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  Speaker 0: Right.
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  Speaker 0: And what was so good?
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  Speaker 0: there wasn't just the technical fix.
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  Speaker 0: It was how open they were.
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  Speaker 0: They did a public root cause analysis.
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  Speaker 0: Wow.
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  Speaker 0: And the key thing, the employee felt safe enough to report it immediately.
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  Speaker 0: Because Sophos had a clear no reprimand policy for this kind of thing, that immediate report stopped a small mistake becoming huge.
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  Speaker 0: That's a win for security culture.
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  Speaker 1: Makes total sense.
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  Speaker 1: If people are scared of getting blamed, they wait.
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  Speaker 1: And waiting is fatal in an attack.
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  Speaker 0: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 0: And we also need to remember the personal side of this.
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  Speaker 0: The toll it takes on security pros.
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  Speaker 0: Shashi, Shankar and Ayan.
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  Speaker 0: shared a very personal story about battling imposter syndrome when he moved careers to Germany.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was powerful.
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  Speaker 0: He called it the cruel irony.
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  Speaker 0: He'd implemented zero trust for all these complex systems, but not really for himself, struggling with self-doubt.
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  Speaker 0: And
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  Speaker 1: the stats back that up, don't they?
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  Speaker 1: Something like, eighty percent of CISOs fighting burnout.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough gig, immense pressure.
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  Speaker 1: That self-doubt is part of the reality of carrying that weight.
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  Speaker 0: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's shift gears now.
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  Speaker 1: From hardening the present to preparing
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  Speaker 0: for a
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  Speaker 1: pretty massive future disruption, quantum computing.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, the next big wave.
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  Speaker 0: Ashish Shrivastava and Tony Moroni from KPMG, they were very direct.
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  Speaker 0: They said, the threat is a fast approaching reality.
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  Speaker 0: Basically current encryption like RSA and ECC they won't survive.
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  Speaker 0: quantum computers won't
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  Speaker 1: survive.
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  Speaker 1: That's dark and some are calling this the crypto apocalypse.
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  Speaker 0: That's term here and the timelines are getting kind of scary.
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  Speaker 0: Farouk Arslan cited a fifty-fifty chance.
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  Speaker 0: quantum could break Bitcoin's cryptography by twenty thirty.
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirty for Bitcoin.
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  Speaker 1: He called it an existential annihilation threat if the industry doesn't wake up.
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  Speaker 1: existential
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  Speaker 0: annihilation.
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  Speaker 0: pretty strong words, but Dominic Briggs explained the how Quantum computers are just really really good at breaking that public-private key relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 0: So, theoretically, an attacker could figure out your private crypto key just from your public one.
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  Speaker 0: And if they can do that for Bitcoin or Ethereum, they can potentially do it for any sensitive data we're encrypting today.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us back to that whole harvest now decrypt later problem.
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  Speaker 1: People grabbing encrypted data today, waiting for quantum to crack it open.
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  Speaker 0: Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: Which is why Steve Suarez was stressing that companies have to start planning now, exploring things like post-quantum cryptography, PQC, and maybe quantum key distribution, QKD.
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  Speaker 1: And NIST finalized PTC standards just this year, with adoption expected.
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  Speaker 0: That's a timeline, yeah.
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  Speaker 0: So there's work happening.
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  Speaker 0: But here's the twist.
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  Speaker 0: Quantum isn't just a future threat destroying crypto.
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  Speaker 0: Sam Boboev, Dr.
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  Speaker 0: Jan Rainer-Lohman, and Nick Levy reported on something pretty groundbreaking.
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  Speaker 0: The world's first quantum-enabled algorithmic trading demo by HSBC and IBM.
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  Speaker 1: Trading.
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  Speaker 1: Using quantum now.
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  Speaker 1: What were the results?
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  Speaker 0: A thirty-four percent improvement in predicting bond trade fills using IBM's Heron processor.
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  Speaker 0: Thirty-four percent.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, thirty-four percent?
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  Speaker 1: That's huge in finance.
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  Speaker 1: Is that purely quantum doing that or is it more complex?
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  Speaker 1: We need to be careful not to over-hype the immediate risk based on
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  Speaker 0: that.
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  Speaker 0: That's a really important clarification.
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  Speaker 0: And the sources are clear.
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  Speaker 0: This is an integrated approach.
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  Speaker 0: It's hybrid, classical quantum working together.
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  Speaker 0: That's where the value is today.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, hybrid.
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  Speaker 0: But still, a thirty-four percent uplift in a real-world financial application.
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  Speaker 0: It proves quantum is moving out of the pure research lab and into high-impact uses right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, progress is real.
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  Speaker 1: But there's still a bottleneck, isn't there?
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  Speaker 1: Pradhyam Nagupta called it the dirty secret of quantum scaling.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, the dirty secret.
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  Speaker 0: He says the real roadblock isn't the algorithms.
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  Speaker 0: It's material science.
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  Speaker 0: It's literally the dirt, tiny impurities, and defects in the materials that cause qubits to deco here to lose their quantum state.
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  Speaker 1: So scaling up the number of qubits right now often just means... Scaling up the errors
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  Speaker 0: pretty much.
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  Speaker 0: That's the challenge.
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  Speaker 0: It needs fundamental breakthroughs in the materials labs.
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  Speaker 0: It was why you see Google IBM pouring money into
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  Speaker 1: that got it And looking ahead, Daniel CFN really emphasized that quantum's true power will likely come from integrating it with AI, right, for tackling really complex problems.
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  Speaker 0: Exactly, it's the synergy.
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  Speaker 0: Hans Christian Hainbeck pointed out that even Nvidia is shifting strategy now, embracing this hybrid quantum classical market.
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  Speaker 0: They see the potential for optimizing incredibly complex things like global logistics or supply chains.
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  Speaker 0: It's not quantum or AI anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It's quantum with AI.
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  Speaker 0: Precisely.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so final theme.
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  Speaker 1: All this intelligence, ZT, AI, quantum.
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  Speaker 1: It needs infrastructure to run on and connect through.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk edge computing, IoT, and the underlying infrastructure.
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  Speaker 0: Right.
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  Speaker 0: Sameer Sharma made a really strong point.
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  Speaker 0: Edge computing isn't just some technical architecture choice.
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  Speaker 0: It's a business strategy.
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  Speaker 0: How so?
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  Speaker 0: It's about moving the value, the computation, closer to where decisions are made, reducing latency, and unlocking new revenue streams because of that speed and locality.
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  Speaker 0: The strategy has to drive the edge deployment, not the other way around.
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  Speaker 1: Makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: And we're seeing this play out in industrial settings.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely.
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  Speaker 0: Jeff Winter and Osgar Tohumku highlighted how edge and manufacturing shifts things from just reporting problems after they happen to actually preventing them in real time.
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  Speaker 0: Predictive maintenance, optimizing processes on the fly.
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  Speaker 1: So smarter factories.
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  Speaker 0: Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: Oscar even mentioned Siemens partnering up, making their industrial edge cloud device available via AWS Marketplace.
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  Speaker 0: So getting that processing power right onto the factory floor is getting easier.
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  Speaker 1: And what about consumer applications?
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  Speaker 1: Linda Grasso showed how IoT is changing retail.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, really interesting stuff there.
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  Speaker 0: Smart shells, tracking stock automatically, beacons monitoring how shoppers move through the store to optimize layouts, connected signs showing personalized deals.
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  Speaker 1: So less waste, happier customers.
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  Speaker 0: That seems to be the value focus in retail.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, efficiency and better experience.
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  Speaker 0: But all
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  Speaker 1: this distributed tech, all this data, it puts a huge strain on the underlying infrastructure, especially power.
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  Speaker 0: Oh, massively.
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  Speaker 0: Lane, Joe's pointed out that even though investors like ninety five percent of institutional ones are pouring money into data centers.
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  Speaker 0: The sheer electricity demand is becoming a bottleneck.
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  Speaker 0: It's creating a license to operate.
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  Speaker 0: problem and am be a test or not in my backyard.
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  Speaker 1: These things need so much power.
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  Speaker 0: Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: And Nina Sadiki added that reliable data center operation now really depends on having effective control over the power generation sources themselves.
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  Speaker 0: You need stable power, stable voltage.
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  Speaker 0: As we push more to the edge, these power and reliability issues become really local, really immediate problems.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: quite a landscape, from zero trust foundations to quantum frontiers and the infrastructure holding it all together.
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  Speaker 0: You know, we started this talking about that massive eighty million dollars loss from a cyber attack.
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  Speaker 0: That kind of visible pain is clearly driving this.
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  Speaker 0: So
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  Speaker 1: what's the final strategic thought here, tying together resilience, identity, sovereignty?
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  Speaker 1: What's the big picture takeaway?
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 0: think it comes down to reframing sovereignty.
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  Speaker 0: It's not just policy anymore.
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  Speaker 0: It's becoming core economic infrastructure.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: That's the argument from people like Dr.
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  Speaker 0: Carson Stucker and Byrne Wagner.
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  Speaker 0: Core
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  Speaker 1: economic infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: Think about it.
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  Speaker 0: You see France's data protection authority, CNIL, using manga comics to teach teenagers about data privacy.
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  Speaker 0: That's grassroots awareness.
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  Speaker 0: And then you see the big push for things like the European digital identity wallet, the EUDI.
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  Speaker 0: Europe seems to be realizing that having control over digital identity and data isn't just about ticking compliance boxes.
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  Speaker 0: It's a strategic economic lever, a fundamental piece of infrastructure they need to build and control effectively.
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  Speaker 1: Treating digital sovereignty as core economic infrastructure, definitely something to think about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for joining us for this deep dive.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Ariel.
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