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NEVIS Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Nevis is a Swiss provider of customer identity and access management (CIAM). The Nevis ID Platform offers identity management, orchestration, authentication, MFA, single sign-on, fraud detection and developer tooling, while the Nevis Authentication Cloud provides MFA, passwordless authentication and transaction confirmation. Its customers are mainly in banking, insurance and iGaming. According to its website, Nevis offers SaaS cloud solutions.

Nevis Security AG is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Budapest, Vienna and London, among others, and a US entity in Delaware. The company was separated from AdNovum in 2020 and, according to a 2019 report, remained owned by IHAG Holding, the holding company of AdNovum. Switzerland is not an EU member state but belongs to EFTA. The public pages do not name hosting locations or data centres, so a European organisation should have the region and sub-processors confirmed contractually. The software is not open source.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • 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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersCH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
CategoryIdentity
TypeProduct
Websitenevis.net ↗

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 NEVIS Security

The European alternatives to NEVIS Security 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 NEVIS Security

NEVIS 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.

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

NEVIS 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 NEVIS 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 NEVIS Security?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to NEVIS Security include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to NEVIS Security?

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

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

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

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