EU Sovereignty Score
Self-hosted / open sourceCybersecurityHeadquarters: IT

Exein: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Exein is an Italian cybersecurity company for embedded and IoT devices. Its Exein Runtime agent is embedded in device firmware and uses kernel-level eBPF techniques to monitor system calls, file system and network activity on Linux and RTOS systems, detecting and blocking attacks. The company's platform also includes Exein Analyzer.

Exein S.p.A. is headquartered in Rome, Italy, and has offices in Germany, Taiwan and the United States. Its privacy notice names Exein S.p.A. as data controller and refers to the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). The notice says personal data is processed within the European Union and, where appropriate, outside it, without naming hosting countries or cloud providers. Because the runtime agent runs on the device itself, the protection is part of the firmware a manufacturer ships, while the vendor's online analysis portal is a separate service whose hosting location is not publicly stated.

See the 8 European alternatives ↓Assess your stack with Exein pre-selected
MastodonLinkedInBlueskyXEmail
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 11, 2026
HeadquartersIT (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCybersecurity
TypeProduct
Websiteexein.io ↗

How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Exein

The European alternatives to Exein 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

93 European Cybersecurity vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

Is Exein one of many dependencies?

Score your whole stack in about three minutes. Free, no account needed.

Assess your stack →View a sample report (opens in a new tab)

Why digital sovereignty matters with Exein

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

Exein 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.

Exein 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 Exein 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 Exein?

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

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

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

Exein is headquartered in IT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Exein 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 11, 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".

No public compliance evidence has been recorded for this vendor yet. Do you know its DPA or subprocessor list? Something wrong? Suggest a correction

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".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

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

Checked on October 11, 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.

Also in this category

See all →
Open in the alternatives dashboardMissing a vendor? Submit itAre you this vendor? You can also become a sponsor on the Cybersecurity page — with no effect on your score
8 European alternatives to Exein — GDPR-compliant & EU-hosted · EU Sovereignty Score