By now digital sovereignty has become a central topic, especially in the context of innovation and competitiveness of the German economy, in politics, and public administration. Open-source software is a crucial aspect of this sovereignty as it can be flexibly adjusted to meet individual requirements. Moreover, open source also allows for especially GDPR-compliant operation of the software within a local infrastructure or the infrastructure of freely chosen provider within Europe.

In the area of Identity & Access Management (IAM) these liberties are especially valuable as it is supposed to help with the consolidation of often very heterogenous IT landscapes to enable users to acce ...