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Yesterday, the US government ordered Anthropic to stop providing its latest AI models – Mythos 5 and Fable 5 – to people without US citizenship. Anthropic then blocked access completely. The explanation: at present, the company cannot reliably determine which users hold which citizenship. Let that sink in for a moment. Access to a key [...]

The debate around Digital Sovereignty is often framed as a contest between the United States and Europe, yet the underlying issue resonates far beyond these regions. Around the world, countries seek measurable control over government IT systems and data infrastructures while safeguarding citizens’ privacy and civil society. Their shared goal is to reclaim autonomy in [...]

Europe is engaged in an intensive debate about digital sovereignty and technological dependencies. Yet one of the most powerful instruments is already on the table: public procurement. New figures show just how urgent this issue has become. The lever is enormous – and largely unused Public IT spending in Europe is probably already above €100 [...]

Attacks on open source projects have become the norm and therefore also threaten the supply chain of Univention products. To ensure the necessary security and transparency, we rely on signatures, SBOMs and VEX in Univention Nubus. The benefits behind these approaches are explained below. Motivation: Risk Management of Operated Software The “supply chain” of a [...]

At the ChannelPartner c.m.x event last week, I spoke about why digital sovereignty has long since become a strategic issue for business, public administration and society – and how system integrators and managed service providers can use this development in the interests of their customers. The more digital our processes, our communication and our value [...]

Running administrative accounts and regular user accounts in the same directory is common in many environments – but separating them can significantly improve security. With Delegative Administration and Just-in-Time Authentication, UCS cleanly separates roles from identities. The result: less ACL complexity, clearer structures, and a more modern approach to administration. In many IT environments, this [...]

The classic IAM task – simple, secure, and centrally managed Almost every organization faces the same challenge: employees work with a wide variety of applications – specialized software, collaboration tools, cloud services, and internal systems. Access should be as simple as possible for users, while the organization needs control over who can access which data [...]

Digital independence begins with IT architecture: organizations that want to operate IT services sovereignly need open standards, centralized identity management, and full control over users, roles, and access. This article describes how IAM becomes the solid foundation of a modular application stack – flexible, secure, future-proof, and easier than you might think. Digital sovereignty is [...]

The latest version of the Open-Xchange Connector for UCS changes the way synchronization errors are handled—a feature many of our customers have been waiting for. Since this is a fundamental change, the new error handling is optional at first. You can turn it on in the app settings. Still, a few of the improvements are [...]

Open IAM solutions are the key to true freedom of choice. No more vendor lock-in—just secure, flexible, and scalable identity management. More control, more digital sovereignty, less dependency. Relying on proprietary tools for digital identity management means giving up control—and often paying for it twice: once in high license fees, and again in lost flexibility. [...]