digital sovereignty

IONOS advertises on theregister.com for itself, Dataport and the now discontinued dPhoenixSuite. Still a nice call for more digital sovereignty. IONOS writes in »Why digital sovereignty is key public sector transformation« for theregister.com If administrative IT infrastructure comes under the control of other countries or depends on opaque technology stacks, then sovereignty is nothing more than a facade. Only when both the infrastructure and IT operations remain fully under European control can public institutions guarantee genuine digital sovereignty. ...

Richard Speed writes in »OpenStack community finds new strength in resilience« for theregister.com “Europe has a very strong dependency on US hyperscale providers, services… and they realize now that that dependency is potentially going to be leveraged against them, and so they want more local capacity.” “We spent a decade telling developers to ignore infrastructure because ’those hyperscalers are going to solve that for us,’ and now we realize that makes us very vulnerable to a lot of non-desirable outcomes.” ...

Yesterday, the EU unveiled the »Cloud Sovereignty Framework«. The concept developed by the European Commission sets out eight sovereignty objectives by which cloud services will be assessed going forward. The SEAL system, with five levels (0 to 4), records how dependent a provider is on non‑European actors. From this, a sovereignty score is derived that is intended to make public procurement more transparent and to strengthen Europe’s digital autonomy. ...

Ellen Nakashima, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Joseph Menn write in »Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say« for washingtonpost.com What’s also alarming, researchers said, is that the hackers have gained access to keys that may allow them to regain entry even after a system is patched. Once again, a security vulnerability in Microsoft’s software was exploited. And of course: no system is completely secure. But when almost everyone uses the same software, a single flaw becomes a widespread risk. That’s exactly the case with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, or Windows. ...

The European Commission wants to gradually shift its cloud services from Microsoft Azure to European providers like OVH Cloud to bolster its digital sovereignty. Details are in the article, unfortunately behind a paywall. Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...