Moving to an EU cloud taught us that sovereignty isn’t about EU versus US.

It’s about whether you can still choose where your data sits, at rest and in transit. In the end, that comes down to who holds the keys.

To make our architecture more secure and less dependent on any single platform, we started an RVO-funded collaboration with Infinity Technologies. Their continuity plans have been tested in wartime, not in rehearsals. That experience changed our design.

And what can you learn from organisations whose digital resilience is tested not in exercises, but in wartime?

We also learned from their market. Many Ukrainian SMEs can’t afford the big cloud platforms and the secret managers that come with them. So they manage secrets themselves, often in pipeline variables or config files that get copied around and rarely changed. A single leak can be enough to compromise a system.

We applied our patented MindYourPass technology, which already protects passwords for people, to the secrets that machines use to authenticate to each other. We have successfully piloted it with clients in Ukraine.
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What to expect?

• Practical insights into data sovereignty and cloud independence.
• Engineering lessons from a Dutch–Ukrainian collaboration.
• A new approach to protecting secrets in pipelines and applications.
• An open discussion of architecture decisions, challenges and lessons learned.
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This Tech Expert Session is for professionals working on data sovereignty, exploring collaboration with Ukrainian companies, or looking for a better way to protect secrets in their pipelines. Expect a technical story and lessons learned: architecture, access models, and the decisions that cost us the most.