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European industrial giants condemn latest EU cybersecurity agency decision on cloud sovereignty


A group of Europe's 18 major industry players insist on cloud sovereignty requirements.

The EUCS aims to create an EU-level certification scheme, that would help governments and companies in the bloc to determine the cybersecurity attributes of any given cloud provider when shopping for such services. “We believe the inclusion of sovereignty requirements is necessary to overcome market fragmentation” and “protect European organisations’ most sensitive data,” wrote the 18 signatories in the open letter. Signatories added that the current draft of the rules will lead to market fragmentation, as the responsibility of defining sovereign elements will fall upon national regulators.

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