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OWASP dep-scan: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OWASP dep-scan is a software composition analysis (SCA) tool: it checks a project's dependencies and container images against known vulnerabilities, security advisories and licence restrictions. It prioritises findings, performs reachability analysis for several programming languages, can generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) with vulnerability information and can produce a CSAF VEX document. Development teams use it locally or in a CI pipeline, as a command-line tool (pip, Homebrew or standalone binary), as a container image or in server mode.

According to the project, AppThreat Ltd donated it to the OWASP Foundation in August 2023. The OWASP Foundation is incorporated as a nonprofit in the United States, so the foundation hosting the project is based there. The standard version is released under the MIT licence; extra components in the full installation carry other licences. According to the README, package scanning runs locally and needs no server, so your data does not go to the maintainer. Development was co-funded through NLnet and the EU's NGI Zero programme.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 16, 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
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cybersecurity
Type
Product
Website
owasp.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OWASP dep-scan

The European alternatives to OWASP dep-scan come from our knowledge base of over 9,500 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 OWASP dep-scan

OWASP dep-scan 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.

OWASP dep-scan 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.

OWASP dep-scan is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs OWASP dep-scan 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 OWASP dep-scan?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OWASP dep-scan include 1Protection.AI, 6cure Threat Protection and Actalis. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OWASP dep-scan?

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

Is OWASP dep-scan GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

OWASP dep-scan is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. 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

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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".

security.txt
owasp.org/.well-known/security.txt

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

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In the changelog

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Digital sovereignty in Cybersecurity

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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