The European CIO’s Guide to Digital Sovereignty

Why it Matters Now and What You an Do About It

Digital sovereignty is the ability of your organization to control and protect its own data, infrastructure, and digital operations, without unwanted influence from foreign powers or tech monopolies

Bottom line: Trust in digital infrastructure is no longer automatic—and relying on U.S. tech giants without a sovereignty strategy is becoming a liability.

Four Growing Risk Areas Facing European Enterprises

1. Data Seizure Risk

U.S. law allows American cloud providers to hand over data under the CLOUD Act.

2. Vendor Lock-In

Proprietary platforms like Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, SFDC and many others entrench you in expensive, hard-to-exit ecosystems.

3. Geopolitical Exposure

Conflicts, sanctions, and diplomatic tensions can suddenly cut off access to mission-critical services.

4. Loss of Control and Innovation - Today’s SaaS Dependency Is Tomorrow’s Achilles Heal

Over-reliance on monopolistic vendors limits your options and slows your tech agility.

What Leading Firms Are Doing

Forward-thinking organizations are acting now by assessing and re-prioritizing sovereign technology infrastructure, applications and data.