Data sovereignty creates an illusion of security: the real battle is software integrity

Amid rising geopolitical tension, a rapidly evolving technological landscape, and a wave of new regulations, such as the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), data sovereignty has become the security strategy of choice.

Governments and enterprises alike are betting that keeping data within national borders makes it safer, more compliant, and easier to control.

More than half of UK IT leaders are planning to move away from US cloud providers, and Denmark has begun phasing out Microsoft and Windows software. While data sovereignty is a compelling idea, it’s solving the wrong problem.

The shift to sovereign cloud is an attempt to fix a 21st-century problem with a 20th-century mindset. The premise of data localization assumes security comes from borders and geography. In reality ...