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Self-hosted / open sourceCompliance & GRCHeadquarters: FR

CISO Assistant: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CISO Assistant is a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform published by the French company intuitem. It covers risk management, compliance and audit, third-party risk and related cybersecurity workflows, and maps controls to a range of compliance frameworks. It is aimed at security and compliance teams and is delivered either as a cloud service or as software installed on the organisation's own servers.

The company is registered in France and describes open source as a core value. The community edition is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3, while the enterprise part of the repository uses a separate commercial licence. The community edition includes Docker Compose and Helm deployment files, so a European organisation can run it on its own infrastructure and keep compliance data under its own control. The public website does not state where customer data is hosted for the cloud offering. It names OVH, Outscale and Scaleway only as technology partners, so buyers should confirm the hosting location in the contract.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 11, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Compliance & GRC
Type
Product
Website
intuitem.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CISO Assistant

The European alternatives to CISO Assistant 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 CISO Assistant

CISO Assistant 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 CISO Assistant scores best on data residency.

CISO Assistant is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CISO Assistant 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 CISO Assistant?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CISO Assistant include 2B Advice PrIME, Actecil and Adherent. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CISO Assistant?

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

Is CISO Assistant GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

CISO Assistant is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes CISO Assistant 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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