Everyone is suddenly talking about digital sovereignty — but almost nobody agrees on what it actually means. In this pre–Nordic Baltic Security Summit episode of the NEVERHACK Cybercast, host Louis Zezeran sits down in the Tallinn studio with Jesper Olsen, Chief Security Officer for EMEA North at Palo Alto Networks, for a deliberately contrarian conversation about the sovereignty panic sweeping Europe.

Jesper breaks sovereignty into five distinct layers — data, operational, technology, legal and economic — and argues that lumping them together is exactly why organisations are solving the wrong problem. Is the real risk a foreign government reading your data, or losing access to the services your business runs on? Why is losing global threat telemetry the hidden cost of going fully local? What should you actually be demanding from your clou ...