Cybersecurity
European Companies Look to Build Their Own Walls in the Cloud
- Global tensions causing politicians to question data controls
- Local companies looking to local encryption providers
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Using code rather than concrete, European companies are busy building walls to protect their data, and are being encouraged by local politicians concerned about threats to their sovereignty.
France’s biggest supplier of drinking water is one example. Before switching to Google’s cloud-based office software, Veolia Environnement SA first hired cybersecurity company Atos SE to handle the encryption of its data before it reached the Alphabet Inc.-owned company’s servers.