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You've heard about public, private, multi, and even poly clouds, but have you considered sovereign clouds? Designed to meet strict regulatory requirements, sovereign clouds keep your data within specific borders, ensuring compliance and security for organizations. #CloudRegulations #DataPrivacy #CloudCompliance #DataSovereignty #CloudSecurity #SovereignCloud #CloudComputing #thefutureisnow #hellotomorrow

🏰 What is Sovereign Cloud, and Why Does it Matter? Sovereign Cloud refers to cloud services hosted within a country's borders, governed by local laws and regulations. This ensures that citizens' data remains under the jurisdiction and protection of their own government. Why does it matter? Let's explore: 1️⃣ Data Sovereignty: Keep citizen data within the borders, subject to the laws and regulations of your country. This minimizes the risk of unauthorized access and enhances regulatory compliance. 2️⃣ National Security: A Sovereign Cloud bolsters national security by reducing reliance on foreign cloud providers. It mitigates the risk of potential data breaches or espionage, fostering a more secure digital ecosystem. 3️⃣ Trust and Transparency: Hosting data locally fosters trust among citizens. Knowing that their data is handled in compliance with local laws builds confidence in digital services, driving increased adoption and participation. 4️⃣ Regulatory Compliance: Sovereign Cloud aligns with national regulations, providing a secure foundation for businesses and government agencies to store and process sensitive information while staying compliant. Now is the time for collective action! It's not just a call for governments; it's a rallying cry for every individual, organization, and tech enthusiast passionate about securing our digital future. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02fDG680 #DigitalSovereignty #CitizenDataProtection #TechForGood #SovereignCloudInitiative #DigitalEmpowerment

How can you ensure data privacy, sovereignty, and protection in today's digital age? How can you be certain that even the operators of your public cloud cannot access your data, even if they want to?    Azure Confidential Computing (ACC)—a groundbreaking service from Microsoft that's setting new standards in securing cloud data.     Azure Confidential Computing employs a unique approach by protecting and encrypting data not only while it is at rest and in transit but also during processing within the cloud server's processors and memory, ensuring the ultimate data protection. The encryption uses keys and trust mechanisms not controlled or stored by Microsoft, allowing only the customers themselves access to these keys, thus providing the highest level of assurance.     What sets Azure Confidential Computing apart is its commitment to enhancing trust and privacy without compromising the performance and flexibility that enterprises rely on. This technology ensures that your information is shielded from unauthorized access, including from operators and administrators.    Our partner Core42 has elevated Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) and Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty (MCfS) by developing their own country-specific Sovereign Controls IP on top of ACC and MCfS. This not only ensures data sovereignty for our customers but also delivers the assurance, security, and regulatory compliance they need during & after their cloud migration.    Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/dXsbMvgT   Talal M. Al Kaissi    #Core42 #Azure #CloudSecurity #DataProtection #MicrosoftAzure #Innovation #SovControls

As technology leaders in the legal or any other sector, we're navigating the complexities of cloud adoption. While cloud technology promises numerous benefits, including enhanced collaboration, scalability, and data security, we must carefully consider the associated challenges and potential pitfalls. I'd like to spark a meaningful discussion among my esteemed colleagues. Share your thoughts and experiences on the following: * Are firms wise to move away from on-premise systems to cloud-based solutions? (Do we even have a choice?) * What are the key factors driving this transition, and are they compelling enough? * How can we address concerns regarding vendor lock-in, cost implications, and data privacy? * What best practices have you implemented to overcome challenges and maximize benefits? I believe the wisdom of our collective insights can guide us towards the most informed decisions for the future of legal technology. #LegalTech #CloudAdoption #Governance #DataPrivacy #VendorManagement

Are you interested in learning how confidential computing can help you achieve zero trust security and unlock new possibilities with your data? If so, check out our O’Reilly Media report: Azure Confidential Computing and Zero Trust. In this report, we explain what confidential computing is, how it relates to the foundational principles of zero trust, what use cases it enables, and the depth and breadth of confidential computing in Azure. You will also find links to industry standards, our case studies, and other reference material. Confidential computing is data processing in a hardware-based and attested trusted execution environment (TEE). This helps enforce zero-trust principles down to the hardware level in several ways, such as ensuring only the software that writes to a memory location may read it or write over it, verifying the good state of the TEE hardware and software before sensitive data is unlocked, and removing the cloud provider’s host OS and hypervisor from software that must be trusted. As Azure CTO and Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich writes in his foreword to the report: " . . . confidential computing does more than help organizations improve their security posture. It also helps unlock more potential with data, enabling innovation and empowering businesses and developers to build new kinds of services previously inhibited by security or privacy constraints. This will help unlock privacy-enhanced personal AI services, trustworthy and transparent hardware and software supply chains and revolutionize solving problems at scale across various domains." Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about confidential computing and how Azure can help you leverage it for your business. Download the report today and share your feedback with us! #confidentialcomputing #zerotrust #securityinnovation #azure #microsoftadvocate

When Big Tech and Big Finance get together, regulators get a little worried. The EU's DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) comes into effect next January. One focus of the sweeping cybersecurity regulation is the relationship between cloud providers and financial institutions. Today, most financial institutions rely on Microsoft, Amazon, and Google cloud. Were something to happen at one of those cloud service providers (CSPs in industry lingo, I'm told) the effects could ripple across the finance industry. If you have a Waters subscription, give it a read! https://lnkd.in/g5Nyw5JW

Integrity protect your Azure blob storage data with Azure confidential ledger. To support customers in regulated industries and compliance scenarios who asked about higher integrity protection of storage blobs, the Azure confidential ledger team has launched a preview of a managed Marketplace application that will further protect data: Blob Storage Digests Backed by Confidential Ledger (Preview).   Data signatures from blob can be harvested and stored in a confidential ledger for tamper protection. At a later point in time and to demonstrate tamper proofness for compliance and auditing purposes, signatures can be recalculated and... #techcommunity #azure #microsoft https://lnkd.in/gTnptyX5

Data Sovereignty is tough, especially for hyperscalers. where is your data stored? Cubbit enables you to store your data - in the perimeter of your choice, - in storage servers under your control, - at a predictable cost, - and encrypted with your own encryption keys. All of this while providing a full cloud experience. Furthermore, gateways can be deployed everywhere (on-prem, public cloud, edge, bringing data close to your applications while managed in a single data domain. #datasovereignty #distributedcloud #s3 #objectstorage #cloudstorage https://lnkd.in/d784kzpX

Companies *don't* care about LLMs beating other LLMs by a few points on public leaderboards. What matters more to them is:  - Customizability: how easily can the LLM be customized for *their use case* - Accuracy: how accurate it is on *their tasks* - Cost: how cheaply can it be run and maintained - Speed: how fast it is in practice  - Integration: how easily can it be fit into their existing tech stack and cloud infrastructure? - Ease of maintenance - Ease of verification - Security and privacy: can it be trusted with sensitive data? - Reliability: can be confident that results will stay relatively constant over time or under control (thanks to Andrés Wagner) - Compliance: can it or does it meet all regulatory guidelines (thanks to Avishay Meron) What other criteria would you add?

🌐 Elevating #Data Management to Unprecedented Heights with #Veritas 🌐 In a landscape where data management choices shape the future of #compliance and #governance, #Veritas stands out as the ultimate partner. Discover #Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud, a cutting-edge Software as a Service archiving, eDiscovery, and Supervision platform, meticulously crafted to empower regulated #organizations in meeting stringent data #governance and #compliance requirements. Capturing a spectrum of content, including email, voice, video, file sharing, chat, social media, and more, #Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud is the quintessential solution for comprehensive archiving needs. But that's not all – the #Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform, supporting over 800 data sources, 100 operating systems, 1,400 storage targets, and 60 cloud platforms, takes data management to unprecedented heights. Renowned for its reliability at scale and boasting a deployment model adaptable to any need, #Veritas proudly holds the global leadership mantle in #data protection and availability. Join us in shaping the future of secure and compliant data management! 🚀 #DataManagement #Compliance #DataGovernance #VeritasInnovation https://lnkd.in/eHtFdbSH