As quantum computing gets closer to reality, agencies and vendors are starting to prepare and recommend next steps.

“We view ourselves as company builders, not necessarily just picking stocks, and that's what drives our mission,” Forgepoint's Alberto Yepez said.

The research firm notes that telecom operators currently lack business models that allow them to build on their physical connectivity advantages.

"At some point in the future, quantum computers will likely be able to implement specific algorithms that can attack some of the current day cryptography," Deloitte's Colin Soutar said.

The equipment vendor purchased Ireland-based systems integrator Aspire Technology, which was founded by former Ericsson engineers.

Research firm Counterpoint predicts 5G-based fixed-wireless access broadband subscriptions will surge to 462 million worldwide connections by 2030.

The term zero trust is “nebulous,” but “it is the strongest defense against ransomware,” Akamai’s CTO Robert Blumofe said.

Enterprises need to evaluate potential cloud providers in terms of sustainability initiatives and transparency, according to a recent Gartner report.

The vendor has not been included in higher-profile open RAN deployments recently launched by Rakuten Mobile in Japan and Dish Network in the U.S.

Data centers should prioritize allocating resources to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, CyrusOne SVP Andrea Munoz said.

The vendor and the analyst firm are predicting 5G connections will top 1 billion worldwide by the end of the year.

"Lacework, Cybereason, OneTrust — three vendors, over $3 billon dollars in funding, and over a thousand out of work," Forrester analysts wrote.

Data center capex grew at its fastest rate in three years during the first quarter of 2022, according to Dell'Oro Group.

“It's not about one network function anymore. ... On a 5G network we’re thinking 5G use case security," Deloitte's Shehadi Dayekh explained

China's cloud spending grew 21% year on year to $7.3 billion in Q1 2022, 13% of global cloud infrastructure spend, according to Canalys.

“When you look at the shared donor that Symantec has imparted on us, we were happy to see Carbon Black and VMware be acquired,” CrowdStrike CFO Burt Podbere said.

In a keynote address, Starbucks CISO Andy Kirkland spoke about how words and actions can affect leadership and work productivity in both a positive and negative way.

By acquiring Randori, IBM will get a better understanding of the hacker’s perspective by discovering the entire depth of the attack surface, according to Justin Youngblood, IBM’s vice president

Google and Microsoft grew at a much faster rate in 2021 than the long-reigning Amazon Web Services, according to Gartner.

“If you look at ransomware, it's a business, it's financially motivated,” CSW CEO Aaron Sandeen said.

WattIQ CEO Priya Vijayakumar hopes her company's smart plugs can shift industry tradition toward making better use of what it already has.

Many expressed concern over Broadcom's handling of its CA Technologies and Symantec acquisitions and subsequent customer backlash.

"Cybersecurity, which has become a broad sustainability issue, [is] threatening our evolving connected society," Fortinet's Barbara Maigret said.

The move continues a growing push by security vendors toward bolstering DevSecOps teams, which has become important in light of recent exploits.