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Actalis: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Actalis is a certification authority (CA) and provider of digital trust services. It issues SSL/TLS certificates (domain, organisation and extended validation), QWAC and QSealC certificates for PSD2, S/MIME certificates for email, code-signing certificates and electronic signatures. Business solutions include Actalis CertiManager for certificate management, ACME automation, private PKI, digital identity and trusted IoT, plus services aimed at DORA and NIS2 requirements. Actalis states that it is qualified under the EU eIDAS regulation for trust services and is a member of the CA/Browser Forum.

ACTALIS S.p.A. has its registered office in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo), Italy, and is a sole-shareholder company within the Aruba Group, which is led by the Italian Aruba S.p.A. Actalis has been part of that group since 2009. According to Actalis, its trust services run from Aruba data centres certified to ANSI/TIA-942 Rating 4; it does not name their locations. The software is proprietary. Both the issuing company and its parent are Italian.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026

Headquarters	IT (EU)	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Hosting signal	ARUBA-ASN - Aruba S.p.A., IT (IT)	Technically measured
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Product
Website	actalis.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Actalis

The European alternatives to Actalis come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Actalis

Actalis is headquartered in IT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Actalis scores best on data residency.

Actalis is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Actalis together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Actalis?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Actalis include Advenica, Avira and Bitdefender. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Actalis?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Actalis include CrowdSec. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Actalis GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Actalis is headquartered in IT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Actalis an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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Digital sovereignty in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: Threat detection, endpoint protection, SIEM, vulnerability management. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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