Strengthening National Data Sovereignty: Graphiant's Approach to Secure Cross-Boarder Data Flows

Data Sovereignty: Why Control of Data‑in‑Transit Now Matters

Cloud adoption and AI workloads have shattered the old idea that data only needs to be safe at rest. The real risk sits in motion—when packets cross borders, hop through third‑party networks, or linger in caches you never approved. Governments that once relied on contract clauses now face hidden replication, opaque routing paths, and foreign legal demands that can expose mission‑critical information without warning.

The new Policy Brief, Strengthening National Data Sovereignty, sets out the scale of the problem: 

• Replication without permission. Many cloud providers copy data across regions for speed or redundancy, creating unsanctioned offshore stores.
• Transit exposure. Traffic often traverses networks under foreign jurisdiction, inviting interception or compelled disclosure.
• Contract gaps. Ambiguous SLAs rarely forbid offshore logging or backup, leaving room for non‑compliant processing.

Graphiant’s network‑as‑a‑service tackles these weaknesses head‑on. Our Stateless Core forwards traffic but never retains it, so there is nothing to seize. End‑to‑end encryption keeps payloads unreadable from origin to destination. Policy‑based geographic routing lets you draw hard lines around where packets may travel—down to individual applications—while real‑time observability proves compliance at any moment.

This approach delivers three concrete outcomes:

1. Regulatory certainty. Data stays inside approved jurisdictions, satisfying residency rules without costly on‑premise builds.
2. Operational clarity. Security and network teams share one live view of every flow, cutting investigation time and audit fatigue.
3. Reduced legal exposure. Because Graphiant never stores customer data, extraterritorial laws such as the U.S. CLOUD Act have no foothold.

The brief also calls on policymakers to push the industry further: mandate data‑in‑transit controls, insist on customer‑held encryption keys, and legally distinguish pure transport providers from cloud storage vendors. When those rules arrive, organisations that have already modernised their network fabric will move first, trade faster, and sleep easier.

Data sovereignty is no longer a paperwork exercise—it is an engineering challenge. With Graphiant, sovereignty is built into the packet path itself. Read the full brief to see how a stateless core, precise routing, and real‑time audit together set a new baseline for secure cross‑border connectivity.