In order to help customers understand and ultimately close the gaps in their digital sovereignty strategy, SUSE has announced the development and launch of its Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self-Assessment tool.
Based on the EU 2025 Cloud Sovereignty Framework, this industry-first tool is a self-assessment web platform available to organizations that want to know how their infrastructure is positioned against the framework.
According to Forrester, digital sovereignty and AI will drive a private cloud renaissance with double annual growth by 2026. With the introduction of the EU 2025 Framework, organizations risk being ineligible for certain contracts without demonstrating digital sovereignty.
The Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self-Assessment simplifies this process by providing an objective Sovereignty Effective Assurance Levels (SEAL) score, which measures an organization’s sovereignty across the eight objectives defined by the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. This automates a manual and very resource-intensive process, offering visibility in just 20 minutes.
“Organizations face a ‘black box’ problem when it comes to digital sovereignty, creating significant hidden risks. There is a gap between policy and technology, with a mismatch between regulatory requirements and the technical infrastructure needed to fix identified vulnerabilities in systems,” said Andreas Prins, Head of Global Sovereign Solutions at SUSE. “However, without a clear sovereignty score, IT leaders cannot justify the budget needed for digital autonomy initiatives. The Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self-Assessment tool provides precisely that score and a roadmap to close the gap by leveraging solutions from SUSE and its ecosystem of European partners.”
SUSE has developed a pioneering tool that offers automated privacy-focused scoring
“The Cloud Sovereignty Framework self-assessment tool is a game-changer for IT strategy. In just 15 minutes I got more information than ever before,” said Markus Scherer, infrastructure and architecture engineer at the University of Luxembourg. “Simply answering the questions gave me immediate clarity on our current level of sovereignty, but the real value is in the final recommendations. It delivered tangible results that I can confidently present to management to influence our future IT investment decisions.”
Main features of the SUSE tool
- SEAL Benchmark: Assigns the organization to one of five levels of Sovereignty (SEAL 0–4), creating a common language for discussing risks (for example: “We are currently SEAL-1, but our public contracts require SEAL-3”).
- Weighted risk analysis: Not all gaps are equal. The tool weights the eight sovereignty objectives (SOV), prioritizing the supply chain (20%) and operational autonomy (15%), showing where the most critical vulnerabilities are located.
- Commitment based on trust: Unlike traditional SaaS tools, this one is “privacy-first.” The results are stored only in the user’s browser, reducing the barriers for high-security organizations to use it without fear of data leaks.
- Advisory roadmap: Transform a conversation about sovereignty into a concrete improvement plan that can be downloaded as a PDF. It is possible to carry out a self-assessment on the SUSE website.
