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Exit-Capable by Design: Vendor Concentration Is a Sovereignty Risk

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: De-perimeterisation taught the security field to stop trusting the network boundary. Its modern corollary: stop trusting the commercial one. This paper argues that vendor concentration in critical systems is a sovereignty problem wearing a procurement badge, and sets out exit-capability as a tested design requirement — decoupling the record of authority from the platform of convenience, maintaining the exit path as a living artefact, measuring concentration deliberately, and extending the same discipline to AI model dependencies. Part of the Sovereign Digital Resilience series.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21970869

Author: Kumar, Sanjeet

Language: English

Topic: Digitalization, Law, and Regulation

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7203605290

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