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Kudelski Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kudelski Security is the cybersecurity division of the Swiss Kudelski Group. It offers managed detection and response, which detects and handles threats in any environment around the clock, along with incident response and digital forensics, threat exposure management, advisory services, and security for industrial control and operational technology. The services are run from cyber fusion centres, which the company says are located in Switzerland, Spain and the United States.

The division was launched in 2012 within the Kudelski Group, which is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, and is led by André Kudelski as chief executive and chairman. The pages reviewed name no foreign parent company. Security monitoring gives access to logs and incident data, so the location where a service is run matters. One of the centres is in the United States, so European organisations should confirm which centre handles their data. The public pages do not state a GDPR commitment, so the processing terms, storage locations and sub-processors should be requested before a contract is signed.

Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (CH, EU, US)
  • 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-645
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CH, EU, USVerified 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 Kudelski Security

The European alternatives to Kudelski 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 Kudelski Security

Kudelski Security is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Kudelski Security hosts data in CH, 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.

Kudelski 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 Kudelski 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 Kudelski Security?

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

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

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

Kudelski Security is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH, EU, US. That makes Kudelski Security 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 10, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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