Why Sovereignty Matters for Critical Sectors
In today’s hyper-connected world, critical infrastructure organizations must ensure their data remains secure, compliant, and under their control. Sovereignty plays a central role in this effort, helping organizations keep their data within defined geographic or operational boundaries. This not only supports national resilience but also ensures alignment with local governance requirements and enables secure, reliable operations.
Building on this foundation, Cyber Resiliency emerges as an essential capability that prioritizes an organization's ability to maintain core operations and recover quickly from cyberattacks or other disruptions, including the loss of internet connectivity. The ability to operate security platforms and monitoring systems offline is crucial for containing threats and ensuring business continuity.
Critical sectors such as public health, energy & utilities, telecommunications, transportation, financial services and defense support essential national functions and societal stability. In these highly regulated environments, data sovereignty is vital for maintaining compliance, defending against external threats, and preserving control over critical systems and sensitive information.
Vital for Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) like power stations, which often use air-gapped networks physically isolated systems to prevent remote attacks. However, these systems can still be vulnerable to threats from infected removable media. The EU's NIS2 Directive mandates that CNI and other essential entities implement robust risk management, including business continuity and disaster recovery plans, ensuring the resilience of vital services.
National control of sensitive data is non-negotiable
Defense agencies handle classified information, mission-critical operations, and intelligence that must remain within sovereign borders. Data sovereignty ensures compliance with national security laws and protects against foreign interference or cyber espionage. It is a crucial architecture design principle.
To support this imperative Trend Vision One™ is an enterprise cybersecurity platform built to secure innovation, delivering robust protection, proactive risk management, and operational efficiency across hybrid environments. It empowers organizations to adopt transformative technologies like AI Factory and Agentic AI while keeping sensitive data under national control, within defined boundaries, and compliant with evolving governance. By embedding sovereignty as a strategic capability, Vision One enables organizations to meet the evolving demands of global and jurisdictional governance.
Trend Vision One enforces data sovereignty across your critical operations.
Protecting the grid starts with protecting the data
From power plants to water utilities, this sector is a prime target for cyber threats since it is essential for citizen’s day-to-day life. For organizations with strict security and regulatory needs, a sovereign instance of a cybersecurity platform is a strategic imperative. This approach confines all operational data, threat intelligence, and tooling to a specific, trusted legal jurisdiction. It goes beyond simple data storage to guarantee that the entire operational pipeline from where security analysts work to where logs are processed, remains under the direct control and governance of a single country's laws.
Learn how Trend Vision One gives energy and utility providers control over sensitive data within national borders, helping ensure service continuity, regulatory compliance and protection against external threats.
The backbone of digital sovereignty
Telecom providers manage critical infrastructure that enables national communication. Sovereign data handling safeguards network integrity, prevents unauthorized access, and ensures alignment with regulatory frameworks such as GDPR or national telecom acts.
Trend Vision One helps telecom operators maintain full jurisdiction over sensitive data while supporting secure, uninterrupted service delivery across national networks.
Patients trust you with their lives and their data
Sovereignty in healthcare ensures sensitive health records and personal information remain under national control. It supports compliance with local privacy laws and prevents foreign entities from accessing patient data, helping maintain trust and confidentiality.
Trend Vision One is built for large healthcare institutions. It enables national-level control and protection of patient information while supporting operational continuity in complex, regulated environments.
Stability, compliance, and customer trust are at stake
Banks and financial institutions process vast amounts of sensitive financial data. Sovereign security solutions ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate fraud and cyber risks, and support resilience in a sector where trust is everything.
Trend Vision One helps large financial institutions maintain full control over critical data while safeguarding against evolving risks.
Trend Vision One™
Your Cloud. Your Rules. Your Protection
Trend Vision One is designed to give government, critical infrastructure, highly regulated industries and the private sector full control over their cybersecurity posture in fully sovereign, private cloud environments. Trend Vision One delivers advanced protection while ensuring that your data, operations, and technologies remain completely under your control. Whether you need to meet strict national requirements, reduce exposure to foreign influence, or align with local data protection laws, Trend Vision One empowers your organization to protect what matters most for your data, operational and technological sovereignty.
Data Sovereignty
Data stored, processed, and governed under local laws.
For organizations that need to maintain complete control over their data and its movement—especially in the context of data sovereignty strengthening your compliance posture with full visibility and governance is essential.
With Trend Vision One, your data is stored, processed, and managed entirely within your country’s borders, ensuring seamless alignment with national and regional regulations such as GDPR, DORA, NIS2, the EU AI Act, and other local compliance standards.
Keep your data secure, compliant, and exactly where it belongs. Connect with our experts to discover how we can support your local compliance requirements.
Operational Sovereignty
Full control over who manages and accesses your systems.
Trend Vision One puts complete operational control back in your hands. You define who can access and manage your cybersecurity infrastructure whether it’s internal teams, certified partners, or government personnel.
Our approach supports strict governance, privileged access controls, and localized operations, helping you minimize insider threats and reduce dependency on foreign cloud service providers. Operate with confidence, powered by localized expertise. Contact us for more info about securing your infrastructure on your terms.
Technological Sovereignty
Freedom to choose and control your digital tools.
Trend Vision One runs on locally governed, transparent technologies giving you independence from foreign-controlled platforms or vendors. It integrates seamlessly with trusted systems and offers the flexibility to evolve with your strategic technology roadmap.
With Trend Vision One, you gain long-term digital independence while maintaining top-tier threat detection, response, and analytics powered by our Vision One Agentic AI Cybersecurity Platform.
As Europe responds to rising geopolitical and technological dependencies, the European Innovation Council (EIC) provides a strategic perspective on the importance of technological sovereignty, calling for innovation leadership, and stronger control over critical technologies.
Learn how Europe is shaping its digital independence in the EIC Statement on Technological Sovereignty, a vital read on why sovereign technology is essential for economic and societal resilience.
Interested in how this applies to your organization? Schedule a consultation to explore your sovereign technology roadmap with one of our experts.
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Marc Schiener,
Technical Director, Trend Micro