KnectIQ CEO Ken Morris wrote the piece below as a response to an article published in InfoWorld on June 20, 2025, titled “The Hyperscalers Disrupt the Sovereign Cloud Disrupters”

Digital Sovereignty Is Not a Destination.
It’s a Design.

Hyperscalers are reshaping the sovereign cloud conversation. With regional personnel controls, customer-managed keys, and compliance features branded as sovereign-ready, they’re gaining traction. But the underlying tension remains: the infrastructure may be local, yet the legal authority often isn’t. Foreign laws like the CLOUD Act still cast a long shadow over who ultimately controls access to the data.

This creates a structural trust gap.

At the same time, many nations are not yet ready economically, operationally, or technically to build and scale full sovereign clouds today. That’s a reality, not a failure.

But sovereignty isn’t binary. It’s layered. It’s about retaining control even when you don’t yet control the hardware.

SelectiveTRUST® from KnectIQ provides the needed dynamic, secure and flexible trust ecosystem.

It gives sovereign nations the ability to assert jurisdictional control over cryptographic policy, access, and collaboration, even while data is temporarily housed in hyperscaler environments. With SelectiveTRUST®, the trust boundary shifts to the edge, outside the cloud provider’s reach.

This allows nations to:

  • Meet domestic data protection requirements, even when using foreign infrastructure
  • Establish sovereign trust boundaries at the cryptographic layer
  • Lay the groundwork for national clouds to be deployed on their terms, in their time, on their soil

It’s not about choosing hyperscaler vs. national cloud. It’s about maintaining sovereign policy control while creating a clean glidepath to future national digitally sovereign infrastructure.

Smart nations don’t let complexity stall progress. They take control now and scale sovereignty over time. That’s what SelectiveTRUST enables.

 

See the article titled, “The Hyperscalers Disrupt the Sovereign Cloud Disrupters” that posted online June 20, 2025, by InfoWorld that was the genesis of this post.