I am a PhD candidate at the University of Twente, Netherlands in ‘Economics of Cybersecurity’ focusing on designing a Responsible Internet. I am a part of the CATRIN (Controllable, Accountable and Transparent Responsible Internet) project. With a background in computer science, business administration and consulting, I am dedicated to studying the Internet's current landscape. My focus includes examining digital policies in industrial, financial, and societal contexts, as well as cybersecurity strategies of businesses. By analyzing current incentives and gathering insights from the digital strategies of Internet companies, I aim to promote control, accountability and transparency over the Internet ecosystem. I aim to align stakeholders’ needs with digital policy recommendations to identify new business models that support the Responsible Internet, encouraging trust and economic viability.

Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Sovereignty
    • European Union
    • EU Policy
    • Policy Document
    • Textual Analysis
  • Computer Science

    • Digitization
    • Risk Management
    • software as a service

Organisations

Digitally Sovereign Europe

Controllable, Accountable, Transparent: Responsible Internet

Publications

2026

Cloud Outsourcing Risk Management for Cloud Consumers: A Systematic Literature Review (2026)ACM computing surveys, 58(12), 1-36. Article 297 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Haq, M. Y. M., Anand, S., Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M. & Abhishta, A.https://doi.org/10.1145/3808691Digital Sovereignty and the means to European digital security: Identification of the goals related to digital sovereignty from legal texts published by the European Union (2026)European Security (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Anand, S., Donnelly, S., Ehrenhard, M., Nieuwenhuis, B. & Abhishta, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2026.2627905Analysing the affect of Control, Accountability and Transparency on the Consumer Behaviour of Software as a Service (SaaS) to Prioritise Digital Sovereignty (2026)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 2nd India Conference on Information Systems, InCIS 2026. Anand, S., Heuvelman, T., Bullée, J.-W., Nieuwenhuis, B. & Abhishta, A.

2025

Understanding Digital Sovereignty from the lens of EU legal documents (2025)[Working paper › Preprint] (In preparation). Anand, S., Abhishta, A., Nieuwenhuis, B. & Ehrenhard, M.

2024

Understanding Digital Sovereignty: A Textual Analysis Of EU Policy Documents (2024)In Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) (ECIS 2024 TREOS). AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). Anand, S., Abhishta, A. & Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M.https://aisel.aisnet.org/treos_ecis2024/8

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