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Certum: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Certum is the trust-service brand of Asseco Data Systems S.A., part of the Asseco Group, which runs it as a qualified trust service provider. Its offer covers qualified electronic signatures, electronic seals, document verification and qualified timestamps. The company states that its services are listed on the Polish national trusted list and on the Adobe approved trust list, and the website is also available in Polish.

The site links to the Polish national entry on the EU trusted list, which places the service under Polish supervision within the EU. The website says the technical infrastructure is located in the EU, but it gives no further detail on data hosting, and the pages reviewed contain no explicit GDPR statement. No ownership outside the EU is identified, and the Asseco Group parent is not described further on the pages reviewed. For a European organisation, the main points to confirm are where signing data is stored and the contractual terms for processing it.

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 10, 2026
HeadquartersPL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryE-signatures
TypeProduct
Websitecertum.eu ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Certum

The European alternatives to Certum 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 Certum

Certum is headquartered in PL 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 Certum scores best on data residency.

Certum 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 Certum 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 Certum?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Certum include A-Trust, Agrello and Assently. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Certum?

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

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

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

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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