The advancing digitization in all areas of society enables new services and business models. Industrial companies in particular are involved along the entire value chain, from the configuration of products by the customer, engineering, production and finally logistics. Particular attention is paid to data security, data sovereignty and integrity - using the example of typical industrial companies. Digital sovereignty not only includes companies and their suppliers, but also raises the fundamental question of where and under what legal framework the data is stored. For example, data protection begins in the production hall of an industrial company when intelligent machines communicate with each other. The data is collected and analyzed by the Edge Data Center, for example to compare it wit ...