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Keeper Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Keeper Security offers an identity security platform. Its core product is password management, available for enterprises, businesses, individuals and families. It also offers KeeperPAM for privileged access, Secrets Manager, Endpoint Privilege Manager and offerings for managed service providers and the public sector. The platform is cloud-first, with a web vault, an admin console and apps for Mac, Windows, Linux and major browsers. According to Keeper, its security rests on end-to-end encryption with a zero-knowledge and zero-trust design.

Keeper Security, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, and has an office in Cork, Ireland, for EMEA business sales. The company is privately held; according to Wikipedia, Insight Partners took a minority stake in 2020. The software is proprietary SaaS. Keeper hosts data on AWS in several regions: the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and GovCloud (US). According to Keeper, enterprise customers can choose the region in which their vaults and data are stored. A European organisation can therefore opt for European storage, while the company remains under US jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 8, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUS, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryPassword Manager
TypeProduct
Websitekeepersecurity.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Keeper Security

The European alternatives to Keeper Security come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Keeper Security

Keeper Security 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.

Keeper Security hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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.

Keeper Security 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 Keeper 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 Keeper Security?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Keeper Security include AuthPass, Avira Password Manager and Dashlane. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Keeper Security?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Keeper Security include AuthPass, gopass, KeePass and KeePassXC. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Keeper Security is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 8, 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".

Report a vulnerability
keepersecurity.com/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/
security.txt
keepersecurity.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 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Password Manager

Password Manager: Password vault — generate, store and autofill passwords. 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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