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Phished: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Phished is a platform for security awareness training and phishing simulations. Organisations send simulated phishing emails to staff, track the results and offer gamified training through the Phished Academy. The company also offers ZIM (Zero Incident Mail), a secure email environment. According to the vendor, its email security is a cloud service that takes one to two hours to set up.

Phished BV is based in Leuven, Belgium. Its privacy policy refers to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and states that personal data is not provided to companies outside the EEA unless an adequacy decision applies. The website does not state where customer data is stored. For a European organisation, a Belgian supplier operating under EU privacy rules is a relevant starting point, and the hosting location should be fixed in the data processing agreement. The product is proprietary and 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 October 12, 2026
Headquarters
BE (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
Category
Cybersecurity
Type
Product
Website
phished.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Phished

The European alternatives to Phished come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Phished

Phished is headquartered in BE 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 Phished scores best on data residency.

Phished 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 Phished 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 Phished?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Phished include Actalis, Advenica and Aikido Security. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Phished?

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

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

Phished is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Phished an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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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".

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phished.io/.well-known/security.txt

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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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