A selection of notable quotes and comments we’ve come across this month
By Marc Ambasna Jones 04 Jun 26 Reading time: 3 mins
“CISOs are waking up. Boards are waking up. The penny has dropped that the urgency around quantum security is not a future problem, it’s a transformation programme that needs to start today.”
“There is always a risk of repeating past mistakes. But there may actually be an opportunity in this transition effort to fix existing broken security systems.”
“If an organisation could not track its RSA certificates, automate renewal, or enforce key protection policies before, it will fail in exactly the same ways with ML-DSA and ML-KEM. You cannot migrate what you cannot see.”
“Modern comms are insanely complicated. Think about the amount of software that’s involved in a 5G stack – many millions of lines of code. All the different elements of the stack interact in sometimes unpredictable ways making it beyond humans to manage.”
“We’re heading for more intelligent traffic routing, automated service provisioning and configuration, and better capacity planning and design. Energy saving will be another gain. If you use AI to put your RAN into idle mode you will notice immediate savings.”
“The biggest misconception is that AI will remove humans. It won’t. Humans will still set intent, policy, and guard rails, and machines will execute on that. The other misconception is that we need more and more data and more compute to get results from AI. But studies have shown that we have actually reached a point of diminishing returns.”
“It might take time for the industry to get comfortable with deploying agentic AI in particular. Autonomy is a much bigger step than mere automation. For true autonomy you need to be sure you have the right guardrails. You need confidence and trust in AI’s decisions. Humans must define the rules.”
“Countries lagging in terrestrial broadband residential and enterprise infrastructure can use satellite broadband to help fill the gap with advanced countries, and attract more foreign direct investment and the digitalisation of industry sectors.”
“Rather than isolated milestones, Artemis II acted as a validation anchor for investors and operators, as well as a reference architecture for future NTN and deep space standards.”
“It is expected future advancement of 6G will naturally cover the envisaged requirements from deep space communications, and solution architectures will converge at some point.”
Working as a technology journalist and writer since 1989, Marc has written for a wide range of titles on technology, business, education, politics and sustainability, with work appearing in The Guardian, The Register, New Statesman, Computer Weekly and many more.
