Red Hat has launched the Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool.
The self-service assessment provides a clear, objective baseline of your organisation’s digital control across seven critical domains:
- Data Sovereignty: The physical and jurisdictional control of your data throughout its lifecycle.
- Technical Sovereignty: The composition of the underlying software stack.
- Operational Sovereignty: Your team’s capacity to maintain and recover systems without external reliance.
- Assurance Sovereignty: The ability to independently audit and validate the integrity of your systems.
- Open Source Awareness: The use of community-driven innovation to neutralise vendor lock-in.
- Executive Oversight: The alignment of sovereignty goals with leadership-level governance.
- Managed Services: The flexibility of cloud deployments across specific regions and datacentres.
Upon completion, the tool provides a maturity score that categorises the current capabilities into four stages:
- Foundation: The early stages of identifying sovereignty requirements.
- Developing: Actively building capabilities and addressing initial gaps.
- Strategic: Strong, repeatable capabilities exist across most domains.
- Advanced: Broad, proactive control is exercised over its entire digital estate.
The assessment provides a practical roadmap of improvement actions and critical research questions for stakeholders.
Red Hat is making the source code criteria for the Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool freely available to the global ecosystem.