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DefectDojo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

DefectDojo is an open-source platform for application security and vulnerability management. It imports findings from scanners and testing tools, removes duplicate results, tracks remediation and produces reports that security and compliance teams use as audit evidence. Development and security teams use it to manage vulnerability data for several projects in one place. The Community Edition is released under the BSD-3-Clause licence and can be installed on an organisation's own servers or in a private cloud. The same company also offers a commercial Pro edition.

DefectDojo, Inc. is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and maintains the project on GitHub. Because the company is based in the United States, any hosted service it operates is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. An organisation that wants vulnerability data to remain under European control can run the self-hosted Community Edition on its own infrastructure. The vendor does not state where its hosted service stores data, so a European buyer should request that information and a data processing agreement before using it.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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-665
    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 12, 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
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Compliance & GRC
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to DefectDojo

The European alternatives to DefectDojo come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 DefectDojo

DefectDojo 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.

DefectDojo 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.

DefectDojo 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 DefectDojo 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 DefectDojo?

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

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

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

DefectDojo 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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