Red Hat has introduced the Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool to help organizations establish a baseline view of their digital sovereignty preparedness.

According to Hans Roth, senior vice president and general manager, EMEA at Red Hat, the self-service assessment measures your organization’s readiness across the following domains:

1. Data Sovereignty: The physical and jurisdictional control of your data throughout its lifecycle.
2. Technical Sovereignty: The composition of the underlying software stack.
3. Operational Sovereignty: Your team's capacity to maintain and recover systems without external reliance.
4. Assurance Sovereignty: The ability to independently audit and validate the integrity of your systems.
5. Open Source Awareness: The use of community-driven innovation to neutralize vendor lock-in.
6. Executive Oversight: The alignment of sovereignty goals with leadership-level governance.
7. Managed Services: The flexibility of cloud deployments across specific regions and datacenters.

Then, it categorizes your organization’s readiness into one of four stages:

• Foundation: The early stages of identifying sovereignty requirements.
• Developing: Actively building capabilities and addressing initial gaps.
• Strategic: Strong, repeatable capabilities exist across most domains.
• Advanced: Broad, proactive control is exercised over its entire digital estate.

The 21-question Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment can be completed in 10-15 minutes and provides a score along with recommended next steps.

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