A SUSE Point of View
Modern infrastructure teams depend on components they can’t always verify or control. With over 700,000 malicious packages identified in public repositories since 2019 and the number accelerating by 156% in 2024 alone, enterprises face growing exposure and a false sense of sovereignty over their environments.

This white paper outlines seven practical pathways to achieving sovereign-grade open source infrastructure, helping you move from dependency to verified trust:
  • The Software Supply Chain Attack Surface: Learn why 97% of commercial codebases depend on open source, and how unvetted components create structural risk.
  • Regulatory Compliance Requirements: Understand how the EU Cyber Resilience Act will make Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) mandatory for nearly all software by December 2027.
  • Escaping Vendor Lock-In: Discover strategies to mitigate escalating licensing costs and avoid being trapped by proprietary virtualization platforms.
  • Pathways to Verified Trust: Explore how to establish verifiable trust through Linux hardening, workload portability, and private AI controls.
  • Sovereign Operational Support: See how to strengthen the “human layer” of sovereignty by bridging SEAL 3 and SEAL 4 requirements under your own legal jurisdiction.




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