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MISP: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

MISP is an open source threat intelligence platform for collecting, storing, correlating and sharing indicators of compromise and other information about cyber threats. Analysts can explore relationships between data through correlation views and graphs, tag information with taxonomies and galaxies such as MITRE ATT&CK, and automate exports to IDS and SIEM tools in formats like STIX and OpenIOC. A REST API, the PyMISP library and extension modules support integration, and instances can synchronise with each other so that organisations share threat data within trusted communities. Organisations download the software and run it themselves.

MISP is developed by CIRCL, the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg, together with an international open source community, and the code is published under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. Because the software is self-hosted, each organisation decides where its instance runs and with whom it shares data. The project distributes the software for download, which suits European CERTs, public bodies and companies that want to keep control of their threat intelligence.

Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersLU (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCIRCL - Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity, LU (LU)Technically measured
CategoryCybersecurity
TypeProduct
Websitemisp-project.org ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to MISP

The European alternatives to MISP 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

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Why digital sovereignty matters with MISP

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

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so MISP scores best on data residency.

MISP is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs MISP 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 MISP?

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

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

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

MISP is headquartered in LU (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes MISP 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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".

Security page / trust center
misp-project.org/compliance/nisd

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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
misp-project.org/security/

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?

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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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