Jurisdiction as a Service
JaaS39™ is a standardized, governance-grade cryptographic framework licensed to certified Jurisdiction Providers.
It enables a state, canton, or country to operate its own local authority layer for cryptographic decisions, independent of cloud and SaaS operators.
Rather than delivering a centralized service, JaaS39™ provides a replicable, locally operated model that runs under local law and local accountability.
Each jurisdiction operates under its own legal, governance, and operational framework — without relying on bespoke sovereign cloud builds or platform fragmentation.
For selected workloads, MycroVault™ enforces ciphertext-only storage in the target SaaS repository (e.g. Microsoft 365).
Cloud and SaaS providers store and process encrypted data, but cannot produce plaintext for vaulted repositories without governed cryptographic cooperation from the tenant side.
Clear-data access is permitted only through explicit, attributable decisions, enforced under the selected jurisdiction’s rules.
MycroVault™ acts as a neutral control layer, comparable to how payment networks standardize trust and enforcement across multiple participants — without owning assets, merchants, or customers.
In the same way, MycroVault™ standardizes jurisdiction-bound cryptographic controls across cloud and SaaS environments, without requiring bespoke sovereign architectures per customer.
What you get (for vaulted repositories):
Ciphertext-only storage in the SaaS platform
No unilateral or silent plaintext access by cloud or SaaS providers
Governed exceptions (approve / refuse) under local authority
Audit-grade evidence of every access decision
No data relocation and no application rebuild
For SaaS providers, this removes the need to design custom “sovereign cloud” variants for each jurisdiction.
For customers, it enables a governed operating mode without fragmenting applications, duplicating infrastructure, or relocating data.
Once integrated, the JaaS39™ component exposes consistent governance controls for exceptional access, applied from the tenant side.
Organizations operate within a selected legal and accountability framework while keeping workloads exactly where they already run.
This turns sovereignty from a bespoke engineering project into a repeatable operational capability.
Value for SaaS providers & customers
Organizations can associate selected sensitive repositories with a digital jurisdiction operated by a trusted local provider, while continuing to use existing cloud and SaaS environments unchanged.
Encryption keys and exceptional access paths are governed under the jurisdiction’s framework, including multi-party controls, while applications continue to operate normally for non-vaulted scopes.
Jurisdiction Providers operate independent cryptographic and governance frameworks.
Together, these interoperable jurisdictions form a federated network, enabling sovereign authority without digital fragmentation.
JaaS39™ provides the infrastructure.
Jurisdictions retain the authority.
Digital jurisdictions & federation
Key Ownership Models Are Not Absolute Safeguards
BYOK
What “Bring Your Own Key” Does Not Do
Bring Your Own Key improves cryptographic control by allowing customers to supply encryption keys.
It is a risk-reduction mechanism, not a sovereignty guarantee.
In practice, BYOK does not:
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guarantee protection against extraterritorial legal requests targeting a cloud or SaaS provider,
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eliminate provider control over service operations,
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prevent access to metadata, logs, backups, replicas, or derived data,
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protect endpoints or client-side access,
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replace governance, refusal mechanisms, or auditability.
BYOK can make unauthorized access difficult and legally contestable — but not structurally impossible.
HYOK
What “Hold Your Own Key” Does Not Guarantee
Hold Your Own Key strengthens separation by keeping keys outside the provider’s direct control.
However, HYOK does not:
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eliminate exposure to extraterritorial legal pressure,
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remove risks tied to provider-controlled execution environments,
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automatically cover telemetry, logs, or derived data,
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prevent misconfiguration or insider misuse,
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replace authority governance and evidence.
HYOK strengthens posture — it does not govern decisions.
What Key-Centric Models Leave Unanswered
BYOK and HYOK address the question “Who holds the key?”
They do not fully answer:
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Who decides,
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under which jurisdiction,
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with what refusal mechanisms,
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and with what verifiable evidence.
Digital sovereignty is not achieved through key ownership alone.
It depends on governed authority, non-bypassable enforcement, and the ability to prove decisions after the fact.
We don’t host your data.
We enable its jurisdiction.
JaaS39 separates where infrastructure and applications run from where cryptographic authority and legal control are enforced.
Applications and data remain in existing cloud, SaaS, or private environments.
What changes is how authority over clear-data access is exercised: from the tenant side, under local law.
Digital jurisdictions are operated by local legal and technical authorities, within their own accountability frameworks.
JaaS39 provides the standardized infrastructure that makes these jurisdictional control layers interoperable, repeatable, and auditable.
No rebuild. No data relocation.
A lightweight tenant-side integration activates jurisdictional control per selected workload.
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