Digital sovereignty is not an abstract geopolitical topic. It is the concrete question of whether your organization will retain access to its data, systems, and capabilities in the event of a crisis, a regulatory shift, or a commercial breakdown with a critical vendor. This module provides the tools to diagnose, prioritize, and decide.
The US Cloud Act requires US providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to disclose data to American authorities upon judicial request — even when that data is hosted in Europe. This directly contradicts the GDPR. An executive who stores sensitive data with a US provider accepts this risk.
Which company data must never be accessible to a foreign jurisdiction? Define the list and migrate to sovereign hosting.
DORA requires measuring and limiting ICT concentration risk. If a single vendor hosts 60%+ of your critical systems, an outage or commercial disruption paralyzes operations. The regulator can demand a remediation plan.
Set a maximum dependency threshold per critical ICT vendor and an 18-month diversification plan.
When your credit scoring or risk management tool is a proprietary AI model from an external vendor, you control neither the training data, nor the logic, nor the evolution. A vendor update can alter your decisions without your knowledge.
For every critical AI: contractually require update traceability and the right to audit the model.
Massive outsourcing of data and AI depletes the organization of its critical skills. If your key data scientist leaves, if your provider is acquired, you lose the ability to regain control. Skills sovereignty is as strategic as data sovereignty.
Identify the 5 critical data/AI skills that are strategically dangerous to outsource entirely.
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