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Nagravision: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Nagravision is the media and entertainment technology division of the Kudelski Group. It supplies security and content-protection products to broadcasters, pay-TV operators and streaming services. Its offer covers streaming and broadcast security, anti-piracy services, forensic watermarking and consumer cybersecurity. Products such as NAGRA Venturi and TVkey Cloud are offered to operators as software and cloud services.

The legal entity is Nagravision Sàrl, registered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland. It is part of the Kudelski Group, whose ultimate parent is Kudelski SA, listed on the SIX exchange. The privacy notice does not mention the GDPR. It states that data may be stored and processed by affiliates in any country where the group has offices, naming the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States, and no fixed hosting location is published. For a European organisation, the US affiliate presence and the missing hosting statement matter more than the Swiss seat, and should be checked in due diligence.

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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, US, OTHER)
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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	CH, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Product
Website	nagra.vision ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Nagravision

The European alternatives to Nagravision 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 Nagravision

Nagravision 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.

Nagravision hosts data in CH, US, 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.

Nagravision 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 Nagravision 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 Nagravision?

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

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

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

Nagravision is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH, US, OTHER. That makes Nagravision 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 October 11, 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".

security.txt: nagra.vision/.well-known/security.txt

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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