Lateration GmbH at a Glance

Encryption was sold as an add-on

US Supreme Court rules FTC protections unconstitutional

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Overturning 9 decades of precedent

The digging kept turning up the same pattern. Encryption that should be a baseline was sold as a paid add-on, in a proprietary implementation that would make leaving harder every month. "You can walk down that road, but you will never leave Microsoft again. You end up in a vendor lock-in where the screws tighten every month, and you're left without options."

Then the legal ground moved. For years, European risk assessments of US cloud providers leaned on the independence of American oversight bodies. On June 29, 2026, the US Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter that the Federal Trade Commission's independence protections were unconstitutional, ending nine decades of precedent that had insulated the agency from at-will political control. [Source: Supreme Court of the United States, Trump v. Slaughter, No. 25-332, decided June 29, 2026] Every risk assessment that leaned on that independence lost its foundation overnight.

Authority and judgment proof of trust

Certification by BSI

Wire outshone the competition

It was never about whether Lateration needed sovereignty. The Head of IT is one of the most committed sovereignty advocates you will ever meet. The hard part was the market noise. Suddenly, every vendor offered sovereignty, and the word had become a point in corporate bingo. The question was, how do you evaluate vendors when they claim to provide sovereignty?

His filter was verification: don't just accept vendor claims, start with the certifier. In this case it was Wire's certification by the BSI, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security. The BSI's authority and judgment were proof that can't simply be bought or faked through a landing page. It was the reason Wire outshone the competition, something that marketing claims alone could never have earned.

Today, the rule at Lateration is simple: sensitive material moves on Wire. "Every time we're talking statistics, the spreadsheets with the important numbers, it happens on Wire. I'm the one enforcing it, because that's what people pay me for. All the sensitive stuff… is happening on Wire already."

The question of quality never even came up. "We didn't have to mention sound or video quality once. Everything just works flawlessly, and that's a good sign."

But for a defense company, the deeper value is resilience. Wire gives Lateration a sovereign channel that stands on its own, regardless of what happens to the rest of the stack.

Wire continuity

Digital sovereignty

End-to-end encryption

The most immediate result is protection by design: the company's most sensitive communication, from sensitive information to customer-related material, now runs through an end-to-end encrypted, BSI-certified channel as a matter of policy rather than individual discipline.

The second result is continuity. With Wire as an independent channel, a failure or compromise of the primary IT environment no longer means a communication blackout. For a defense company, that is not convenience. It's operational doctrine applied to IT.

The third result is commercial. In the defense sector, taking sovereignty seriously is itself a market signal, and Lateration ensures it's part of how the company presents itself.

In the defense sector, the appetite for capability does not always match the appetite for security. The defense sector is growing faster than its security culture. That is the uncomfortable observation at the heart of Lateration's story, and three lessons from it apply to any organization in the sector.