What language is the whitepaper written in?

The whitepaper is currently available in German, with an English translation in preparation. The subject matter — EU legal frameworks, the German Business Judgement Rule, and Microsoft licensing shifts — is directly relevant to English-speaking executives operating in the DACH region and the wider European market.

Ten pages, reading time roughly 15 to 20 minutes. Each chapter stands on its own and can be read independently.

Can I share it internally?

Yes. Sharing within your organization is encouraged. For external references, please link back to securecloud.de.

Is the whitepaper a sales pitch?

No. The focus is on legal, economic, and operational framing. SecureCloud's solutions appear on a single page as building blocks of the migration path, not as a product catalog.

Is the 60-day plan realistic or just marketing?

The plan is based on completed projects in comparable organizations. It assumes three conditions: a board decision has been made, responsible stakeholders are named, and a pilot area is defined. For highly distributed or strictly regulated scenarios, we scale the plan individually.

What happens after the download?

You decide the next step. On request, we offer a free board-level migration assessment, structured along the chapters of the whitepaper. No phone contact takes place without your explicit consent.

NEW WHITEPAPER:
60 days.
Then your data belongs to you again

Why storage location no longer protects you, what inaction really costs in the model case, and how a structured switch works in eight weeks.

(On German only)

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Storage location alone does not protect against access

This isn't written in an activist paper. It's written in an official opinion by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), made public in December 2025. And it changes the question boards and managing directors need to ask their IT — fundamentally.

Three questions this whitepaper answers with substance:

What does inaction actually cost?

We calculated it. For a mid-sized company with sensitive data, the expected loss runs into six figures — per year. The exact number, the method behind it, and the four risk categories are in the Expected-Loss chapter.

Is switching more expensive than the US stack?

Short answer: no. The longer answer is a table with three scenarios over three years, including the Microsoft price increase announced for July 2026. The savings grow with headcount.

Are 60 days realistic — or marketing?

We show what happens on day zero, what goes wrong in phase two and why that's a good thing, and what lands on the table by day sixty. Not a concept slide. A proven roadmap.

Three numbers from the whitepaper

80 %

The EU's dependence on non-EU digital products. Source inside the whitepaper.

660.000 €

Aggregated expected loss in the model case. How it adds up is on page 5.

60 Tage

What 300 users save over three years. The math lives in the CFO chapter.
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Why this whitepaper belongs on your desk right now

Microsoft ends the sale of standalone SharePoint and OneDrive licenses from June 2026. The national implementation of the Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2) makes cybersecurity a personal board-level responsibility — with fines up to ten million euros. And the International Criminal Court case in 2025 proved that geopolitically motivated service suspensions are no longer theoretical.

Three developments that reinforce each other. Anyone who waits until one of them escalates has already lost the choice.

Written for people who have to document decisions

Board members. Managing directors. Chief Financial Officers (CFO). Chief Information Officers (CIO). Compliance and data protection leads. Especially relevant in financial services, healthcare, legal and tax advisory, public administration, critical infrastructure (KRITIS), and manufacturing with sensitive production data.

If you ever have to explain why you acted — or why you didn't — this whitepaper is your preparation.

From the author

"Three objections come up again and again: Sovereignty — is that even possible? Isn't a project like this risky and endless? And won't we lose productivity? All three assumptions are outdated. Why, is in this whitepaper."

Sebastian Deck,
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
SecureCloud GmbH

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NEW WHITEPAPER: 60 days.Then your data belongs to you again