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OneSpan: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OneSpan provides cybersecurity and digital agreement software. Its security portfolio covers authentication, fraud prevention, transaction security, digital credentials and mobile app protection, including the DigipassONE platform and passkey deployment. OneSpan Sign handles electronic signatures, identity verification and agreement workflows, and can be embedded into portals and applications through APIs and SDKs. According to OneSpan, its signatures comply with eIDAS in the European Union.

OneSpan Inc. is a publicly listed company (Nasdaq, ticker OSPN) that took its name in 2018, having previously been VASCO Data Security, and it has offices in Belgium (Diegem and Erembodegem) and Montréal, among others. Its public product pages do not say in which regions customer data is hosted or whether an EU region is available. Before adopting it, a European organisation should ask about data location, sub-processors and corporate structure, and review the OneSpan Sign trust centre.

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Sovereignty score
37 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 9, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Identity
Type
Product
Website
onespan.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 OneSpan

The European alternatives to OneSpan 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 OneSpan

OneSpan is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

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

OneSpan 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 OneSpan 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 OneSpan?

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

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

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

OneSpan is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 9, 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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