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Onyx Security: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Onyx Security sells what it calls a secure AI control plane for enterprise AI agents. The platform discovers sanctioned and shadow AI across SaaS, cloud, endpoints and code, and gives visibility into prompts, responses and agent actions. It enforces security and governance policies, which teams can define in natural language, and a supervisory Guardian Agent monitors the platform and can block an action, require human approval or redirect the agent. Listed integrations include Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Google. It is delivered as a vendor-operated platform.

Onyx Security came out of stealth in March 2026 and lists offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York. Israel is outside the EU and EEA. The company operates a Trust Center that lists compliance certifications and subprocessors on request. The sources consulted do not state where the platform is hosted and describe no self-hosted option or open-source edition, so European organisations should ask where their data is processed.

Sovereignty score
32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    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-630
    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 27, 2026
Headquarters
IL (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

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 Onyx Security

The European alternatives to Onyx Security 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 Onyx Security

Onyx Security is headquartered in IL, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Onyx Security hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Onyx 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 Onyx 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 Onyx Security?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Onyx Security include 2021.AI GRACE, CalypsoAI and Giskard. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Onyx Security?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Onyx Security include Giskard and Mistral Shieldstral. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Onyx Security is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. 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 September 27, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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