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CyberArk: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CyberArk is an identity security and privileged access management (PAM) vendor. Its platform secures human and machine identities: it protects and rotates privileged credentials, controls and monitors privileged sessions, manages secrets for applications. Organisations buy it as a subscription-based Identity Security Platform, including as a cloud service.

CyberArk was founded in Israel in 1999 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, with its US headquarters in Newton, Massachusetts. Since February 2026 it has been a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, a US company based in Santa Clara, California, which now presents the platform under the name Idira, built on CyberArk's legacy. For a European organisation this means a US ultimate parent, so US authorities can in principle demand access to data under the CLOUD Act, whichever region hosts it. Agree on the hosting region of your tenant and on the sub-processors involved in the contract.

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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 (US)
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	IL (OTHER)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	USVerified 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	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Identity
Type	Product
Website	paloaltonetworks.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CyberArk

The European alternatives to CyberArk 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 CyberArk

CyberArk 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. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

CyberArk 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 CyberArk 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 CyberArk?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CyberArk include WALLIX, privacyIDEA and Procivis. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CyberArk?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to CyberArk include privacyIDEA, Evolveum midPoint, Hanko, Kanidm, LemonLDAP::NG and NethServer. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

CyberArk is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in US. 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 9, 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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