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Self-hosted / open sourceCybersecurityHeadquarters: DE

edge.SHIELDOR: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

edge.SHIELDOR is a cybersecurity solution from TRIOVEGA for industrial networks (OT). According to the vendor, it creates a kind of software air gap, a security gateway whose zones separate IT and OT networks while still allowing IT/OT convergence. It supports update-free operation of machines, central management of installation and updates without interrupting production, protocol conversion such as OPC UA, and secure data connectivity for production data. TRIOVEGA also positions it as an aid in meeting the Cyber Resilience Act and NIS2.

TRIOVEGA GmbH is based in Lübeck, Germany, and also develops custom software for industry alongside this product. No parent company is mentioned. The solution is deployed in the customer's own production network; the sources describe no cloud hosting of the product and do not say where any management components run. Ask about the architecture of the central management and about how alerts and log data are processed. For a European industrial organisation this means a German vendor and a solution that stays close to its own infrastructure.

Sovereignty score
80 / 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-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to edge.SHIELDOR

The European alternatives to edge.SHIELDOR come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 edge.SHIELDOR

edge.SHIELDOR is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

edge.SHIELDOR runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

edge.SHIELDOR is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs edge.SHIELDOR 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 edge.SHIELDOR?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to edge.SHIELDOR include 1Protection.AI, Actalis and advact. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to edge.SHIELDOR?

Our list of EU alternatives to edge.SHIELDOR is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is edge.SHIELDOR GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

edge.SHIELDOR is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes edge.SHIELDOR an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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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".

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 14, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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