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Lucy Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lucy is a software platform for security awareness training and phishing simulation, helping organisations measure and improve how their employees handle security risks. The vendor describes it as a cloud-based SaaS solution and also offers flexible deployment on-premise or in a private cloud, on a dedicated server.

Lucy Security AG is based in Cham, Switzerland. The vendor states that Lucy complies with the strictest data protection regulations but names no specific framework, and its privacy page does not state where customer data is hosted. Switzerland is outside the EU, so for a European organisation the contract should specify data location and the applicable data protection terms. The on-premise and private-cloud options allow an organisation to keep the platform on infrastructure it controls. The product is proprietary and not open source.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • 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-655
    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 12, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cybersecurity
Type
Product
Website
lucysecurity.com ↗

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

The European alternatives to Lucy Security come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Lucy Security

Lucy 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.

Lucy Security hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Lucy 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 Lucy 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 Lucy Security?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lucy Security include Actalis, Advenica and Aikido Security. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Lucy Security?

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

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

Lucy Security is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Lucy 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

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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".

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.

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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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