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Mindgard: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Mindgard is an AI security platform with an offensive focus. It discovers AI assets and attack surfaces, including shadow AI, runs adaptive AI red-teaming to find exploitable weaknesses in models, agents and applications, provides remediation guidance, retests fixes and offers runtime protection. The platform is aimed at security, engineering, GRC and audit teams, mainly in enterprises, and connects through APIs, CI/CD pipelines and Burp Suite. The company grew out of AI security research at Lancaster University and reports SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. It is not open source.

According to its website and press coverage, Mindgard has locations in London and Boston, and it is described in the press as a UK spin-out. The UK is outside the EU and the EEA. The website does not state which hosting regions or deployment models (SaaS, on-premises) are available. European organisations should settle this with the vendor in advance, because red-teaming can involve test prompts, system configurations and results.

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Sovereignty score
32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    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-630
    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 6, 2026
Headquarters
GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI Security
Type
Product
Website
mindgard.ai ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Mindgard

The European alternatives to Mindgard 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 Mindgard

Mindgard is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Mindgard hosts data outside the EU (US, OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Mindgard 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 Mindgard 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 Mindgard?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Mindgard include 2021.AI GRACE, CalypsoAI and Giskard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Mindgard?

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

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

Mindgard is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in US, 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

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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