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They must keep track of sovereignty issues in different jurisdictions and to do this , they will need help . Cloud providers will have to work more closely with their customers to manage sovereignty and compliance with varying rules .
In the year ahead , the onus will be on both businesses and public cloud providers to improve compliance and data sovereignty issues by better understanding what is in the petabytes of data they ’ re storing and the regulations around every element of that data . Businesses can no longer be satisfied by simply backing up data .
They will have to get smart about their data content and put policies in place around that content .
3 . Global supply-chain issues will continue to be a dataprotection issue
Supply-chain issues are creating significant disruption to the global economy , with everything from cars and refrigerators to semiconductors and toys in short supply .
And those issues look likely to continue well into 2022 . In fact , in a new survey of CFOs compiled by Duke University ’ s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta , a majority of the CFOs expect the issues will not be fixed until the second half of 2022 or later .
Logistics issues and digital risks such as cyberattacks will cause further disruptions to the global supply chain in the coming year .
In 2021 , the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack took down the largest fuel pipeline in the US and temporarily caused fuel shortages up and down the East Coast .

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