Data Sovereignty, Cybersecurity, and Challenges for Globalization
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Data Sovereignty, Cybersecurity,
and Challenges for Globalization
Jing dejong- Chen
Growing concerns about cybersecurity have sparked an
intense international debate about data sovereignty and the
degree to which governments should control the flow of
data-both within and across their borders. How individual
nations and the world community ultimately address these
issues will have a profound effect on the global information
and communications technology (ICT) market and on glo-
balization itself. Globalization, fueled by ICT, has propelled
decades of positive information exchange, innovation, and
trade, and enabled unprecedented economic growth for
both developed and developing nations. The Industrial
Internet of Things alone is expected to add $14.2 trillion to
the global economy by 2030.'
Despite the growth and opportunity that a highly connect-
ed computing environment provides, certain governments
have begun to initiate legislative process to enforce data sov-
ereignty (government control over all data collected within
a country), including the need for data residency (manda-
tory data storage location) and data retention (mandatory
recording of data transactions). The desire for information
control is not new, but the idea of developing laws to contain
data flow within ones border is -and it is an alarming devel-
opment for all parties that are active in the areas of global
Jing de Jong-
Chen is a Senior Direc-
tor, Global Security Strat-
egy and Diplomacy Group
in the Cloud and Enter-
prise Division at Microsoft
Corp. She has 20 years
of industry experience
and domain expertise in
security standards, cyber-
security policy and stra-
tegic partnership devel-
opment. Her leadership
roles include Vice Presi-
dent and Board member
of the Trusted Comput-
ing Group, Board advisor
of the Executive Women
Forum, founder of the
China Internet Industry
Security Workgroup and
the TCG Greater China
Regional Forum.
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