Cloud Computing Data Sovereignty by WISeKey

WISeKey’s unique service is based on the strong Swiss respect for privacy, security, and neutrality allowing governments and other customers to host their IT platforms from unique state-of-the-art data centers in Switzerland.

The Problem

 Like individuals and companies, public sector institutions are also seeing the benefit of having their information systems hosted out of third party data centers. Ultimately this means giving up the control public sector institutions like to maintain over their data and archives.

In very basic terms, Cloud Computing means such institutions do not own the physical infrastructure,  software, or services used, but rents or outsources them in some form from a service provider.

Important policy questions arise when a government’s critical information and services are no longer under its full control, and may even be outside of its borders.

This information may then be accessible by other governments through legal means such as search warrants (under the law of the land where the data center physically exists).

Essentially, a government is losing sovereignty over their data and IT systems.

The Solution

 WISeKey and the OISTE Foundation have developed a solution which allows public institutions and other customers sovereignty over the data as if that data were hosted by a data center within the physical borders of their nation.

WISeKey is very proud of its Swiss heritage, and our unique data sovereignty service is based on a legal, policy, technological, and infrastructural framework which allows governments to take advantage of cloud computing by hosting their data in unique state-of-the-art data centers in Switzerland. It is derived from the strong Swiss respect for privacy, security, and neutrality.

Contact WISeKey

If you are interested in acheiving true Data Sovereignty while benefiting from Cloud Computing, or simply would like more information, please contact us at WISeKey.

sales@wisekey.com
+41 22 549 30 00