Data Sovereignty Compliance

Data sovereignty is a subset of "digital sovereignty" which refers “to the ability to have control over your own digital destiny – the data, hardware and software that you rely on and create”. Given the awesome reliance of the modern enterprise on digital platforms, digital sovereignty encompasses a huge part of the key platforms, processes and services that make global businesses successful today.

Data Sovereignty, Operational Sovereignty and Software Sovereignty

When thinking about a successful cloud strategy, Thales sees data sovereignty as one of the 3 major pillars that support digital sovereignty objectives: along with operational sovereignty, and software sovereignty.

• Data sovereignty means maintaining control over encryption and access to your data. This ensures sensitive data doesn’t fall into the hands of a foreign entity without express permission resulting in non-compliance with data sovereignty laws by country.
• Operational sovereignty means giving an organization visibility and control over provider operations. This ensures bad actors or malicious processes cannot access, or prevent you from accessing, your valuable data, such as in the case of privileged user access or a ransomware attack.
• Software sovereignty means running workloads without dependence on a provider’s software. This gives organizations the freedom to store and run workloads wherever desired to maximize performance, flexibility, and overall resilience.

Why are these 3 pillars important? Organizations that take charge of their data sovereignty in the cloud will find it easier to migrate sensitive workloads to the cloud and manage.