EU Sovereignty Score
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Elastic Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Elastic Security is the security offering built on the Elastic platform and Elasticsearch. It combines a SIEM with AI-driven alert correlation, endpoint security through Elastic Defend, XDR and cloud security on one data model, and workflow automation. It is delivered as Elastic Cloud Serverless, as Elastic Cloud Hosted on major cloud providers, or self-managed on your own servers or Kubernetes.

Elastic N.V. is incorporated in the Netherlands; its annual report calls it a distributed company without a principal executive office and gives a San Francisco address for shareholder communications. Elastic Cloud runs on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, with European regions such as Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris and the Netherlands. Elasticsearch and Kibana source code is available under AGPLv3, SSPL 1.0 and the Elastic License 2.0, which applies to the default distribution; only AGPLv3 is an OSI-approved open-source licence. Self-managed deployment keeps data in your own environment.

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Sovereignty score
82 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, 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-690
    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 2, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalFASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryCybersecurity
TypeProduct
Websiteelastic.co ↗

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 Elastic Security

The European alternatives to Elastic Security 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 Elastic Security

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

Elastic Security hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Elastic Security 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 Elastic Security 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 Elastic Security?

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

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

Is Elastic Security GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Elastic Security is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Elastic Security 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 2, 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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
elastic.co/legal/customer-agreements
Security page / trust center
elastic.co/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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".

Report a vulnerability
elastic.co/product-security
Supported versions
elastic.co/support/eol

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

Checked on October 9, 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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