Digital Sovereignty Is More Than a Piece of Paper: Why Backup Is the Only Way Out of the SaaS Trap
We celebrate our "Cloud First" strategies and lull ourselves into a false sense of security because our contracts guarantee us "ownership" of the data. But when the plug is pulled - whether by technical outages, geopolitical tensions, or a blocked credit card - the brutal truth is revealed: We have ownership, but we do not have possession. We are tenants in our own business, and the landlord has changed the locks. Digital sovereignty does not mean avoiding the cloud. It means having the choice and the ability to leave or continue operations at any time, even if the cloud is no longer there. In this talk, we dismantle the "Sovereignty Illusion" of modern IT architectures. We expose why SaaS services are technically often "No-Restore" environments and why regulatory compliance (DORA, NIS2) is no guarantee of actual operational capability. The solution is surprisingly pragmatic: We use classic Backup and Disas...