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SEC Consult: sovereignty score and 5 European alternatives

SEC Consult is a consultancy for cyber and application security. Its services include penetration testing of web applications, mobile apps, cloud, IT infrastructure, SAP and IoT or embedded systems, red teaming, information security management, ISO 27001 certification support and help with regulations such as NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act. A 24/7 incident response team, SEC Defence, assists companies after an attack, and its Vulnerability Lab publishes security advisories. Clients are mainly large companies in financial services, utilities, technology and government.

SEC Consult was founded in Austria in 2002 and is headquartered there. Since its acquisition in 2020 it has been part of Atos, a group listed in Paris, which makes the ultimate parent French. The company has offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As a service provider, it handles client information during engagements, so organisations should agree contractually where test data and reports are stored and which offices have access.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	AT (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	FRVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	internex-as - interneX GmbH, AT (AT)Technically measured
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Service
Website	sec-consult.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 SEC Consult

The European alternatives to SEC Consult 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 SEC Consult

SEC Consult is headquartered in AT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in FR, also within Europe.

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

SEC Consult 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 SEC Consult 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 SEC Consult?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SEC Consult include Airbus CyberSecurity, Eviden (Atos) and Cure53. On this page you can compare 5 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SEC Consult?

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

Is SEC Consult GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

SEC Consult is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes SEC Consult 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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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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".

Report a vulnerability: sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/responsible-disclosure-policy/
security.txt: sec-consult.com/.well-known/security.txt

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

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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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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