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Red Hat Unlocks EU Digital Sovereignty
20 Feb
Summary
- Red Hat launches a free, open-source tool to assess digital sovereignty.
- The toolkit helps organizations measure control over data and infrastructure.
- Red Hat's initiative ensures European IT operations remain under EU control.
Red Hat has introduced the open-source Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolkit to address growing demands for digital sovereignty in Europe. This initiative aims to ensure critical European IT operations remain under EU control.
The web-based survey consists of 21 multiple-choice questions covering data residency, encryption key control, and cross-border data flow prevention. It provides organizations with a measurable "sovereignty baseline" across seven domains, including data, technical, and operational sovereignty.
Upon completion, users receive a score mapped to four maturity stages and a roadmap of recommended next steps. Red Hat is releasing the toolkit and its criteria under the Apache 2.0 license, making its methodology publicly available on GitHub. The tool is designed for data to remain within the user's browser, not sent to Red Hat or any third party.
