Self-hosted / open sourceCybersecurityHeadquarters: FR

Olfeo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Olfeo is a French publisher of web filtering and secure web gateway software. Businesses, local authorities and healthcare institutions use it to control employees' internet use and to protect information systems from web-borne threats. The product is available as a SaaS subscription or as software for on-premises infrastructure. Olfeo was founded in 2003 and has its headquarters in Paris.

Since June 2025 Olfeo has been wholly owned by Ekinops, a French telecommunications solutions provider listed on Euronext Paris, through its holding company Oscar SAS. The SaaS service was developed in France. A client case study published by Orange Business says that Olfeo needed a cloud hosted on European servers and chose an offering from Orange Business, a French operator. Customers with stricter requirements can opt for the on-premises version, which keeps web-traffic data inside their own environment. For a European organisation, the French seat, French ownership and European hosting are the points to check against its own requirements, including the contract terms of the chosen hosting option.

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Sovereignty score

80 / 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-380
Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 10, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Product
Website	olfeo.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Olfeo

The European alternatives to Olfeo 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 Olfeo

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

Olfeo runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Olfeo is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

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

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

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

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

Olfeo is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Olfeo 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 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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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".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

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

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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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