Data sovereignty takes more than keeping data close to home
In The Register's on-demand webinar, Data Sovereignty By Design, moderator Tim Phillips speaks with Patrick Smith, Field CTO for EMEA at Everpure, formerly Pure Storage, about moving beyond compliance checklists and taking a more strategic approach to data control.
Key points
- Decisions about which data needs protection, which services must remain operational and what level of risk is acceptable require input from business leaders, security, procurement and legal teams.
- Keeping sensitive data within national borders might satisfy a residency requirement.
- For IT leaders trying to turn sovereignty from an abstract boardroom concern into something actionable, the conversation offers useful questions to take back to their organizations.
Geopolitical tensions, evolving regulations and the growing use of AI are forcing organizations to reconsider what data sovereignty means in practice.
Additional details
- Smith explains the concept of the "minimum viable company," identifying the critical services, applications and data an organization needs to keep operating through disruption.
- Data could be stored locally while remaining subject to another jurisdiction's laws, dependent on overseas service providers or exposed to disruption beyond your control.
- He also considers why visibility into data access, supplier dependencies and potential exit strategies should influence technology decisions from the outset.
- The discussion examines why sovereignty shouldn't be treated as an IT-only responsibility.
- And simply throwing more money at the problem won't necessarily solve it.
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