Category: Data Sovereignty & Compliance

Accounting firms hold their clients’ most sensitive financial data. An 8-point checklist for evaluating where that data actually lives: residency, access, audit trail, key custody, WORM retention, and breach cooperation.

A law firm’s duty of confidentiality follows the data onto infrastructure it does not own. An 8-point checklist for evaluating where client files actually live: residency, personnel, matter-scoped access, audit trail, key custody, legal hold, portability, and breach cooperation.

DFARS 7012 is not just the 110 controls CMMC assesses. It is a 72-hour reporting clock, a 90-day preservation duty, and a cloud paragraph with two halves most vendor conversations skip. Here is the obligation-ownership split.

We walked all 14 CMMC Level 2 domains and mapped Open Edge Cloud actual posture, practice by practice. About 75 of 110 practices land on the platform side. The engineering target is FedRAMP Moderate; CMMC L2 falls out as marginal additional surface via DoD FedRAMP Mod Equivalent recognition for CUI.

The operating picture of compliance at Open Edge Cloud: FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography, federated SSO, encrypted multi-year audit retention, Wazuh FIM and SCA, tailored CIS L2 hardening, and an OSCAL artifact program targeting FedRAMP Moderate.

If your US company works with EU customers, partners, or employees, you are processing EU personal data. GDPR applies to you – not because you are in the EU, but because the people whose data you handle are. This creates a specific problem for file sharing. Documents, contracts, employee records, and customer files routinely contain…

SharePoint dominates enterprise file sharing, but its global infrastructure, per-user pricing, and Microsoft ecosystem lock-in create real problems for organizations with data sovereignty requirements. Here is how Managed OpenCloud compares – honestly.

OpenCloud and Nextcloud both descend from ownCloud, but they solve different problems. This post compares them honestly on architecture, performance, features, and operational complexity – and explains where a managed deployment changes the calculus.

Sovereign cloud has a real definition with five mandatory pillars. Most providers claiming sovereignty satisfy one or two at best. This post defines the standard and explains why it matters for US defense, healthcare, financial services, and critical infrastructure.

CONUS data residency means more than selecting a US region on a hyperscaler. With the Strait of Hormuz closed, active cyber warfare targeting US infrastructure, and foreign government data access laws expanding, enterprises need cloud providers that deliver genuine US sovereignty.