• How digitally sovereign is your organization? • This Red Hat tool can tell you in minutes Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways As trust in US tech companies wanes, the importance of digital sovereignty grows. • Red Hat’s open-source evaluation toolkit helps you assess your digital sovereignty. • You, not Red Hat, control your data and how you use the evaluation. • Over the past year, several governments and companies outside the US have decided they can’t trust American tech companies.

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  • Red Hat has released an open‑source Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolkit to help governments and enterprises gauge how much control they have over data, infrastructure and operations. The web‑based survey contains 21 multiple‑choice questions covering data residency, encryption key control, disaster recovery, and border‑crossing prevention. It evaluates seven domains-data, technical, operational, assurance, open‑source strategy, executive oversight and managed services-and assigns a score across four maturity stages, along with a recommended roadmap. The tool and its methodology are licensed under Apache 2.0 and run entirely in the browser, keeping assessment data local. The initiative follows Red Hat’s EU‑specific “Confirmed Sovereign Support” program, reflecting growing demand for digital sovereignty amid declining trust in U.S. tech firms.

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