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Nexis: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

NEXIS is a modular identity governance platform for regulated enterprises from Nexis GmbH. It links identities, roles, controls and evidence so that access decisions are traceable. The offering includes identity analytics, role and access governance and recertification, role mining, segregation-of-duties (SoD) management, identity security posture management and governance for non-human identities. NEXIS 4, formerly NEXIS Controle, can extend an existing IAM system or run standalone. The company also provides consulting, an academy and a health check.

Nexis is headquartered in Regensburg, Germany, and describes itself as "Made in Europe". No non-European parent company is known. The public pages describe neither the delivery model (cloud or on-premises) nor the hosting location, so a European organisation should have these confirmed by the vendor. The software is not open source.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 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-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 September 20, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
IONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Identity
Type
Product
Website
nexis-secure.com ↗

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 Nexis

The European alternatives to Nexis 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 Nexis

Nexis is headquartered in DE 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 Nexis scores best on data residency.

Nexis 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 Nexis 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 Nexis?

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

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

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

Nexis is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Nexis 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 September 20, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice when it was added on September 20, 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".

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