What would happen if air traffic controllers stopped working? Two aircraft approach each other at the same altitude, a landing and a take-off overlap on the same runway, nobody glances at the radar screen. The result would not just be chaos but a major catastrophe. This is exactly the situation that threatens IT when monitoring is missing!

An IT environment also needs an air traffic controller who has an overview of all states in the system at all times. What is the status of the servers? Are the logs in order or are there signs pointing to a "crash"? Are all programs running smoothly? If nobody takes on the role of the air traffic controller, relevant problems will sooner or later collide and result in full-blown production and service outages.

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.