The complex risks facing modern IT environments make IT security a strategic imperative, not a back-end detail. Furthering this is cloud computing, which serves as the foundation of the AI economy, meaning that enterprises and nations require greater control, transparency, and assurance over data location and protection. Trust has become not just a technical question, but a matter of national policy, corporate strategy, and even societal resilience.At the same time, the explosion of AI and machine learning (ML) workloads is reshaping infrastructure requirements. But these shifts pose a complex
