What began with a 386 under the Christmas tree grew into a conviction: Paul Dudek, a Software Developer, talks about his journey into IT and “Made in Germany” security software. In our interview, we discuss how high standards, attitude, responsibility and digital sovereignty come together in our software development – and why software from Germany isn’t a compromise, but a model for the future.

Everyone is talking about digital sovereignty. In part 1 of our blog series, we showed that it is not a political vision but a genuine business foundation. Part 2 focused on the fundament: data centers, cloud and IT infrastructure. Now we turn to the layer users work with every day: platforms, solutions and services, above all in IT security. This raises the final question: when and how are you truly sovereign and independent at this level? Because this is where it becomes clear whether the aspiration turns into lived practice.

In the first part of our blog series, we showed that digital sovereignty is not a political vision but a business fundamental. Yet sovereignty starts with the foundation. Data centers, cloud and IT infrastructure determine whether control is truly real. Three questions get to the heart of it: Where is the data physically located? Who operates the systems? And under which jurisdiction does this happen? Anyone who cannot answer these questions is building their digitalization on foreign ground.