Organizations find themselves at the crossroads of data sovereignty and data privacy, resulting from cloud adoption. This has led to compliance with cross-border data protection laws and regulations becoming an important challenge. Data protection and data sovereignty laws and regulations are growing around the world, and organizations face substantial financial penalties if they fail to navigate this landscape of competing and sometimes contradictory requirements. ShardSecure MicroshardTM technology provides innovative controls which support the information protection lifecycle and can help organizations to respond to these challenges.