Zscaler and Schwarz Digits, the tech arm of the company that owns Lidl and Kaufland, have launched a joint cybersecurity platform running entirely out of German data centers, and the backstory behind who’s building it matters almost as much as what they built. The service combines Zscaler’s Zero Trust security architecture with STACKIT, Schwarz Digits’ own cloud platform, creating a security setup that stays fully inside German infrastructure under German operational control. Schwarz Digits itself is a somewhat unusual player in this space. That’s roughly the same path Amazon took with AWS, just on a European scale and with a very different starting industry. Still, as AI-assisted attacks grow more sophisticated and automated, European enterprises are finding it harder to treat security architecture and infrastructure ownership as separate decisions.