Digital sovereignty & national security

IT Security and Independence in Germany

 

 

The geopolitical, economic and technological developments of recent years have impressively demonstrated how essential digital sovereignty, resilience and security are for Germany as a business location. At the heart of these challenges are powerful and highly secure IT infrastructures as well as reliable concepts and solutions in the field of cybersecurity.

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sayTEC AG is an IT security company that develops technologies for highly secure network access (home office and client access solutions), tailor-made cloud solutions, high-speed backup and holistic IT infrastructures such as hyperconverged infrastructures ‘Made in Germany’. A modern and economically viable IT infrastructure combined with almost 100% reliability. Each solution leads to a significant reduction in IT complexity, administrative effort and, as a result, operating and personnel costs.

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Digital transformation is the foundation of European competitiveness, but it also brings with it considerable dependencies. There is a high degree of dependency and influence, particularly from the USA, especially with regard to cloud services, data processing and critical infrastructures. To ensure digital sovereignty, companies and institutions must retain control over their data in their own country – not only for data protection reasons, but also to maintain their strategic independence. With our holistic sayFUSE infrastructure concepts (server, storage, backup, ZeroTrust network connection, etc.), our customers achieve maximum digital sovereignty, high security and absolute control over their data and network.

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Artificial intelligence in IT security

Artificial intelligence has become a double-edged sword in the cyber world: it serves both as a protective shield and as a method of attack. On the one hand, AI enables automated anomaly detection, predictive threat analysis and the defence against complex attacks in real time. On the other hand, cybercriminals use AI for automated attacks, deepfakes and identity manipulation. Companies therefore need intelligent security architectures that proactively use AI as a defence technology.

 

At sayTEC, everything starts with external and internal network security. A 9-step, interlocking zero-trust security solution (sayTRUST) that detects AI attacks. This ensures secure access to company data and applications from anywhere. Companies, public authorities and foundations can thus create highly secure working environments and a reliable data backup concept with almost 100 per cent operational capability.

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Control over data in your own country and compliance

Storing sensitive company and customer data on servers outside Germany poses risks to compliance, integrity and availability. European companies are increasingly required to implement solutions that guarantee data storage and processing in accordance with EU standards. This includes compliance with the GDPR, the NIS2 standard and the new requirements of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which place high security demands on software and hardware. This is exactly where sayTEC's coordinated hardware and software solution comes in, offering a scalable infrastructure solution (sayFUSE HCI Infrastructure) that meets all legal requirements and EU standards.

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sayTEC positions itself as a high-performance, secure and flexible provider of ‘edge-to-core’ IT infrastructure, which is particularly suitable for organisations with distributed locations and high security requirements. Read and write speeds of 150 GB/s and the 45 PB reference show that sayTEC is not only capable of serving medium-sized businesses, but can also deliver solutions in the top performance segment – as a partner for big data and high-performance computing.

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With multi-tenancy for large organisations with distributed locations, sayFUSE HCI Infrastructure offers ‘Network as a Service (NaaS)’ variants. This is a disruptive feature that radically simplifies and secures the provision and management of IT infrastructure at decentralised locations, with significant cost savings (no additional on-site investment).

 

Employees as the first line of defence

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The strongest technical protective measures are useless if the human factor is not taken into account as a weak point. Social engineering and phishing remain among the greatest threats. That is why modern security strategies rely on security awareness training to turn employees into an active line of defence. However, this only works if the complexity of the daily use of security technologies and administrative tasks is massively reduced and simplified. Continuous training and simulations in the application of security measures strengthen security awareness and improve responsiveness in an emergency.

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High IT complexity as a risk for security gaps

Companies must take a holistic view of their IT landscape in order to proactively identify and eliminate risks. With increasing networking, hybrid IT landscapes, cloud services, microservices and a growing number of endpoints, the complexity of systems is increasing. This complexity is one of the biggest drivers of security gaps and vulnerabilities.

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Why?

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• Confusing infrastructures: The more systems are connected to each other, the more difficult it becomes to identify and secure all dependencies.

• Misconfigurations: In complex environments, configuration errors are almost inevitable – and they are one of the main causes of data leaks.

• Shadow IT and lack of transparency: Employees often use unauthorised tools or services, which undermines security policies and increases the attack surface.

• Patch management: In distributed, heterogeneous systems, it is challenging to apply security updates promptly and completely.

 

 

The result: companies are more vulnerable to cyber attacks, especially zero-day exploits, ransomware and supply chain attacks.

Our sayTRUST VPSC solution reduces complexity through standardisation and simplification, automated security processes and a zero-trust architecture.

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Summary

In a world where cyber threats are becoming more complex every day, traditional IT security is no longer sufficient. Companies need strategic security solutions that go far beyond simply protecting systems. This is exactly where sayTEC solutions come in – as a central authority for planning, implementing and controlling modern IT infrastructure and cybersecurity measures.

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The leading foreign providers are generalists who provide the foundations for a modern, software-defined infrastructure. However, their strength lies in their broad application, extensive ecosystem and global scalability.

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sayTEC, on the other hand, is a specialist that uses a perfectly coordinated, highly secure and holistic IT infrastructure solution to achieve greater reliability and integration, particularly in the areas of zero trust security and ‘as-a-service’ provision for distributed networks. Its ‘Made in Germany’ approach and proven suitability for security-sensitive environments give sayTEC a unique positioning that offers clear added value over the large global players, whose core products do not offer this degree of vertical integration and specific focus on decentralised ‘Network as a Service’ security.