Suse delivers EU cloud sovereignty framework self-assessment
SUSE (hereafter Suse) has launched a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment.
According to Forrester, digital and AI sovereignty will drive a private cloud renaissance with doubled year-on-year growth in 2026.
The company says it wants to help users understand (and ultimately close gaps) in their digital sovereignty strategy
With the 2025 EU Framework now introduced, organisations risk contract ineligibility without proven digital sovereignty.
SEAL score
The Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment aims to simplify this journey, providing an objective Sovereignty Effective Assurance Levels (SEAL) score, a way to measure an organisation’s sovereignty on the eight objectives defined by the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework.
This streamlines a manual and resource-intensive approach to an automated, 20-minute visibility tool.
“Organisations are facing a ‘black box’ problem when it comes to digital sovereignty which creates significant hidden risks. There is a policy-to-technology gap with a disconnect between regulatory requirements and the technical stack needed to fix identified vulnerabilities across infrastructure,” 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 Assessment Tool provides exactly that score and a roadmap for how to close the gap, leveraging SUSE solutions.”
The SEAL Benchmark is included here to map an organisation to one of five Sovereignty Effective Assurance Levels (SEAL 0–4). This creates a common language for organisations to discuss risk (e.g., “We are currently SEAL-1, but our public sector contracts require SEAL-3”).
Weighted Risk Analysis
A weighted risk analysis also features because not all gaps are equal.
The tool weights eight sovereignty objectives (SOVs), prioritising supply chain (20%) and operational autonomy (15%), showing exactly where the most critical vulnerabilities lie.
“Unlike typical SaaS tools, this is ‘privacy-first’ so results are stored only in the user’s browser, which lowers the barrier for high-security organisations to engage without fear of data leakage. It transforms a vague sovereignty conversation into a concrete improvement plan that can be downloaded as a PDF,” noted Suse.
Set against a framework of the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, this industry-first tool is a web-based, self-service discovery platform available to organisations wanting to know how their infrastructure scores against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework.
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