Cybersecurity platform leader Zscaler has announced a strategic partnership with Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group, to deliver a European sovereign Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution hosted on Schwarz Digits’ STACKIT cloud infrastructure in German data centers. Now available across Europe, the joint offering merges Zscaler’s AI-powered Zero Trust Exchange platform with STACKIT’s sovereign hosting, end-to-end management, and operational support to safeguard mission-critical workflows in public administration, defense, financial services, and healthcare against sophisticated AI-driven cyber threats. By ensuring complete EU data residency and local operational control, the combined platform provides European enterprises and public sector entities with an effective framework to fulfill stringent regulatory frameworks including NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act without compromising network performance or scalability.
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Contextualizing the strategic importance of building technological autonomy directly into the underlying cloud architecture, Christian Müller, CEO of Schwarz Digits, explains: “Technological independence begins with infrastructure. Through this partnership, we are taking network security to a new level: we are evolving existing security architectures and focusing on high-performance identity verification. For our customers, this means even stronger protection against cyberattacks.” Reinforcing the vendor’s long-term enterprise commitment to data sovereignty across the region, Misha Kuperman, Chief Reliability Officer at Zscaler, added: “In an era of AI-driven cyber threats, a modern Zero Trust SASE solution is the only effective way to protect sensitive enterprise data. Our partnership with Schwarz Digits is a concrete demonstration of our long-term commitment to Europe: Together, we help our customers eliminate their attack surface and prevent the lateral movement of threats, while still maintaining compliance with European regulations through EU data residency. This enables the highest level of security while aligning with European digital sovereignty regulations.”