Sovereignty Survey

Find Your Edge Realm Sovereignty Score

Fourteen questions across three areas: cloud data security, cost visibility, and data control. We score the result on a 1 to 10 ERSS and send back a PDF. Higher scores indicate a greater need for sovereign infrastructure.

Organization Profile

1

Cloud Data Security Posture

Authentication and Access. Does your organization enforce reliable MFA and least-privilege access controls for all users and AI solutions?

5 / 10
1510

Encryption Standards. Is your data encrypted both at rest and in transit across all cloud environments?

5 / 10
1510

Incident Resilience. Do you have a plan to secure cloud data in the event of a long-term outage or security breach?

5 / 10
1510

Monitoring and Auditing. How consistently do you conduct formal cloud risk assessments (monthly, quarterly, or annually)?

5 / 10
1510

Third-Party Risk. Do you perform formal risk assessments of SaaS applications or AI agents before they are integrated?

5 / 10
1510
2

Security and Visibility of Cloud Costs

Budgetary Security. Is your organization planning a significant increase in cybersecurity budget for 2026 AI-generated threats?

5 / 10
1510

Cost of Failure. How severe would the financial impact be if your primary cloud data was compromised?

5 / 10
1510

Resource Management. Do you have full visibility into Shadow IT (unauthorized cloud apps) within your organization?

5 / 10
1510

Efficiency. How much drag on productivity do current security policies create for innovation teams?

5 / 10
1510
3

Data Control and Sovereignty

Geographic Sovereignty. How concerned is your organization about data sovereignty and jurisdictional overreach?

5 / 10
1510

Physical Control. How much do you weigh the loss of physical control when moving from on-prem to public cloud?

5 / 10
1510

Regulatory Compliance. Are you confident your setup meets all 2026 mandates (GDPR, HIPAA, DORA, CMMC, etc.)?

5 / 10
1510

Operational Autonomy. Do you have a documented exit strategy to regain control if your cloud provider changes terms?

5 / 10
1510

AI Integration. Are you concerned that generative AI tools will lead to inadvertent data leaks or IP loss?

5 / 10
1510

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