Europe Wants Digital Sovereignty. 2,165 Polish Organisations Show the Gap
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- #Cybersecurity
- #Digital Sovereignty
- #Infrastructure Analysis
- CipherCue observes 2,165 Polish organizations' public infrastructure, revealing hosting and perimeter vendor preferences.
- At the hosting layer, Polish organizations heavily use European providers, with France (OVHcloud) as the largest foreign destination, not the US.
- At the outsourced perimeter layer (e.g., CDN, hosted mail), US-headquartered vendors dominate completely, with no European alternatives observed.
- For CDNs, among 128 organizations using a commercial CDN, all are US-based: Cloudflare (89.8%), Amazon CloudFront (7.0%), Akamai (2.3%), and Fastly (0.8%).
- For hosted mail providers, among 140 organizations using such services, all are US-based: Microsoft 365 (82.1%) and Google Workspace (17.9%).
- Polish organizations show sovereignty preference in hosting (82% host in Poland) but inconsistently apply it at the perimeter, where US vendors prevail.
- The data serves as an account prioritization map for European vendors targeting sovereign alternatives, identifying organizations using European hosting but US perimeter services.
- Exposure to US vendors varies by sector: public sector has the lowest (10.6%), while financial services and healthcare are around 19-20%.
- European vendors have minimal presence at the perimeter, with only Cookiebot (Denmark) having double-digit Polish adoption.
- The findings measure public-facing infrastructure only, not back-office systems, and highlight a market gap for European cyber, trust, and infrastructure vendors.