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Digital sovereignty advisory

AltLibre takes a small amount of advisory work alongside the research. It tends to be the same problem the papers are about: an organisation that has realised its data answers to a jurisdiction it did not choose, and wants to understand the exposure before deciding what to do about it.

The work

  • Jurisdiction and dependency reviews. A map of the systems holding consequential data, the laws that can reach them, and the exposure if access were withdrawn or compelled. The purpose is to show what needs a decision first, and why.
  • Second opinions. An independent read of a decision already in progress: a migration, a renewal, or a sovereignty claim in a supplier response. The evidence and the weak assumptions are examined before more money is committed.
  • Procurement and exit strategy. Requirements and exit tests that can be carried into a procurement, plus the practical question of how the organisation would leave before the day it has to.
  • Board and executive briefings. The dependency argument framed around the decisions a board owns: appetite, exposure, procurement, continuity and the evidence it should ask management to produce.

How it starts

An email. There is no form on this site and no tracking on any page. Write to info@altlibre.com with the situation and you will get a plain answer about whether this is work AltLibre can usefully do, including when it is not.

Useful detail for that first email:

  • The decision. What has to be decided, approved or renewed.
  • The estate. The main systems or suppliers concerned, and the kind of data they hold.
  • The constraint. A renewal date, procurement deadline, audit, incident or board question that has brought this to a head.
  • The help wanted. A dependency review, a second opinion, procurement and exit work, or a briefing.

Start with an email

Independence

AltLibre takes no commissions, referral fees or sponsorship from any vendor named in its research, and advisory clients do not influence what is published. The research is not for sale, and nothing on this site is placed. Where a tool is recommended, it is because it does the job.