Non-EU vendorCybersecurityHeadquarters: IL

Cato Networks: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cato SASE Cloud is a secure access service edge platform from Cato Networks. It brings SD-WAN, a global private backbone, network security and secure remote access into one cloud service for branch offices, data centres, cloud resources and mobile users. Administration runs through a single self-service console, and the company also targets managed service providers and resellers. The company describes the service as a global cloud network with a thin edge device at each site.

Cato Networks is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is a privately held company without a controlling parent. Israel lies outside the EU and EEA, so the company's home jurisdiction and the processing of network traffic and customer data fall outside European law. The public pages do not state where customer data or points of presence are hosted, and they describe neither a self-hosted nor an open-source option. A European organisation should review the processing terms and hosting locations before routing its network traffic through the service.

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Sovereignty score

32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
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 10, 2026

Headquarters	IL (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Product
Website	catonetworks.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cato Networks

The European alternatives to Cato Networks come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Cato Networks

Cato Networks is headquartered in IL, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Cato Networks hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Cato Networks 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 Cato Networks 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 Cato Networks?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Cato Networks?

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

Is Cato Networks GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cato Networks is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 10, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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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.

Checked on October 10, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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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