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CybelAngel: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CybelAngel is a French security company that provides external threat intelligence as a managed service. Its platform looks for vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems and APIs to map an organisation's external attack surface, and it detects leaked confidential data. The offer also includes remediation support, investigations into specific threats and compliance-related services.

CybelAngel SAS was founded in 2013 and is registered in France. According to its data processing policy, the address for notices is in Clichy, in the Paris region. The company acts as a data processor for customers' personal data and states that its processing aligns with the principles of the GDPR. Hosting is provided by Google in Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium, but several sub-processors, including tools for AI, messaging and CRM, are based in the United States. Customers should therefore review the transfer safeguards and the sub-processor list. The website does not name the company's owners.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
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-645
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	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Product
Website	cybelangel.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CybelAngel

The European alternatives to CybelAngel 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 CybelAngel

CybelAngel 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.

CybelAngel hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

CybelAngel 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 CybelAngel 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 CybelAngel?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CybelAngel 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 CybelAngel?

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

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

CybelAngel is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes CybelAngel 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 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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