UK customers aren't as worried about sovereignty as EU, Cisco exec says

Is tech and data sovereignty as big a concern in Britain as the market makes it seem? Cisco executives aren’t so sure.

"Sovereignty" got a lot of air time during the Cisco Live EMEA conference, attended by The Stack in this week.

Cisco EMEA President Gordon Thomson told audiences infrastructure autonomy is now a “fear” at the board level, but demand of AI localisation was also "muddying the waters."

The chief executive for the UK and Ireland also told The Stack British companies are less concerned about sovereignty than their European counterparts.

In the face of heightened concerns, Thomson told press Cisco is being "very explicit" with customers about its product security, going as far as giving them "a legal intent that there is no back door in [our] products."