Organizations today face growing pressure to retain control over their data, enforce regional data residency requirements, and protect sensitive systems from external jurisdictional or vendor risks. As businesses increasingly adopt cloud applications and rely on global SaaS providers, identity and access data often flows across borders, creating challenges for compliance, regulatory alignment, and secure operations.
Many cloud-based IAM solutions struggle to meet these requirements. They may depend on third-party authenticators, lack support for legacy or mission-critical systems, or operate in jurisdictions that prevent full control over identity data. For security, GRC, and IT teams, this creates both operational and legal uncertainty and underscores the need for an approach that prioritizes sovereignty from the ground up.