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Detectify: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Detectify is an application security platform that discovers an organisation's external attack surface and tests web applications for vulnerabilities. It is aimed at security teams and at engineering and DevSecOps teams, and it also covers PCI DSS compliance scanning. The service is a hosted platform that can be tried through a trial or demo and is also listed on AWS Marketplace.

Detectify AB is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Since October 2024 a majority stake has been held by Insight Partners, a US software investor headquartered in New York, which makes US ownership relevant for CLOUD Act exposure. The company's website links to GDPR information, ISO 27001 certification and a data processing agreement, but does not name the data centres or cloud regions it uses. The product is not open source, and no self-hosted option is described. A European organisation should check the hosting regions and sub-processors before sending information about sensitive assets.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-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-655
    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
HeadquartersSE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyUSVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCybersecurity
TypeProduct
Websitedetectify.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Detectify

The European alternatives to Detectify come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Detectify

Detectify is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Detectify scores best on data residency.

Detectify 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 Detectify 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 Detectify?

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

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

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

Detectify is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Detectify 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".

security.txt
detectify.com/.well-known/security.txt

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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