#TooBusyToAttend: Swiss Cyber Security Days
The New Frontier Is Infrastructure
Janusz Nowakowski · February 2026 · Bern, Switzerland · Original post
Last week Bern hosted one of the key cybersecurity events in Switzerland. If you could not attend, here is what actually mattered.
I sat through the opening press conference and the keynote speeches. Most people skip those and head straight to the booths. I did the opposite. The direction of an industry is usually set on stage before it shows up in products.
This year the theme was clear: digital sovereignty.
Structure, not slogans
Cristina Caffarra, co-founder of the EuroStack initiative, did not talk about slogans. She talked about structure. Europe has spent years regulating big tech. It has not changed market concentration.
Around 80 percent of Europe's cloud infrastructure sits with three companies.
That is not a political statement. It is a market fact.
Switzerland is not separate from this structure. The same providers power Swiss banks, industrial firms, and startups.
Caffarra's point was uncomfortable. European suppliers exist. Engineers exist. Capability exists. What does not exist at scale is demand.
Boards default to what is already dominant. Procurement decisions reinforce concentration. Regulation does not create alternative markets. Customers do.
The practical questions
If you are an engineer or a C-level executive, the practical questions are simple.
- Under which jurisdiction do your core systems operate?
- How concentrated is your dependency?
- Do you have realistic alternatives for parts of your stack?
Conferences do not change markets. Contracts do.
Part 2: Where The Builders Actually Are.
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