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SecurityScorecard: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SecurityScorecard provides security ratings. It continuously scores the cyber security posture of organisations, including their suppliers, and makes the results available to customers for self-monitoring and third-party risk management. The company describes its service as supply chain detection and response, and it is delivered as a cloud platform.

SecurityScorecard, Inc. is a US company. Its privacy policy states that the company is located in the United States and gives a New York address for its privacy team. Investors include venture and strategic investors such as Sequoia Capital and Moody's, and no majority owner is named. The privacy policy notes that service providers may be located in the United States and elsewhere, and that transfers outside the European Economic Area rely on standard contractual clauses. It does not name hosting regions or an EU data residency option. For a European organisation, the points to weigh are US jurisdiction over the provider and the storage location, which is not stated.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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 11, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryCompliance & GRC
TypeProduct
Websitesecurityscorecard.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to SecurityScorecard

The European alternatives to SecurityScorecard come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 SecurityScorecard

SecurityScorecard 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.

SecurityScorecard 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.

SecurityScorecard 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 SecurityScorecard 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 SecurityScorecard?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SecurityScorecard include 2B Advice PrIME, Actecil and Adherent. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SecurityScorecard?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SecurityScorecard include CISO Assistant. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

SecurityScorecard is headquartered in US 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 October 11, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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