Operational Sovereignty: Why Digital Portability Drives Resilience
F5, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
In a fast-changing and unpredictable geopolitical landscape, policymakers and business leaders increasingly talk about the need for digital sovereignty. But this high-level concept can be slippery; it means different things to different people.
Depending on the context, digital sovereignty is generally used to refer to some combination of data sovereignty, operational sovereignty and technological sovereignty. While inter-related, each of these terms focuses on a distinct part of an organization's digital estate. In this blog post, I am going to focus on operational sovereignty and how it builds on data sovereignty before exploring technological and AI sovereignty in subsequent posts.