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Cyera: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cyera is a data security platform that discovers, classifies and protects sensitive data across cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments. Its offering includes data security posture management (DSPM), data loss prevention, privacy functions such as data subject requests, identity insight, and security for AI activity and AI agents. The vendor also supports on-premises data stores. It is delivered as SaaS, and according to Cyera the scanning architecture is designed so that data does not cross regions or environments.

Cyera is headquartered in New York with a development centre in Tel Aviv; its contact page lists New York first among several offices. The company is therefore subject to US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. Its trust center names Amazon Web Services as infrastructure and lists the GDPR as a framework, but does not publish storage regions; the data processing terms are available only after access under non-disclosure. No European hosting option is documented. European organisations should therefore ask in advance in which region analysis and metadata are processed and under which contractual terms.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    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-615
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified 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
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cyera

The European alternatives to Cyera 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 Cyera

Cyera is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Cyera 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.

Cyera 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 Cyera 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 Cyera?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cyera include Accutics, BiG EVAL and CluedIn. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cyera?

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

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

Cyera is headquartered in US 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

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Compliance evidence

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