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Brain Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Brain Security (Brain) is a French company that supplies cybersecurity and AI awareness products. Its range includes online competitions such as Cyber Cup and Super Challenge, games and experiences such as Deepfake Studio, the Cyber Journey learning path, the AI-generated encyclopedia Cyberpedia, the Slack learning bot Chat with Jack and the Super Phisher phishing simulator. It also supplies Brain Arcade, a physical arcade cabinet installed on site. According to the website the software runs entirely online in the browser and is aimed at organisations that want to train staff in a playful way.

Brain Security SAS is based in Paris; no parent company is named. The privacy policy does not say where data from the product platforms and arcade cabinets is hosted; it only describes the showcase website, which runs on Cloudflare Pages. For customer data Brain says it acts as a processor. Ask the vendor about the hosting location and sub-processors before deploying the product. No self-hosted variant is mentioned.

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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 15, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cybersecurity
Type
Product
Website
startbrain.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Brain Security

The European alternatives to Brain Security come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 Brain Security

Brain Security is headquartered in FR 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 Brain Security scores best on data residency.

Brain Security 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 Brain Security 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 Brain Security?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Brain Security include 1Protection.AI, 6cure Threat Protection and Actalis. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Brain Security?

Our list of EU alternatives to Brain Security is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Brain Security GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Brain Security is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Brain Security 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 15, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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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