Self-hosted / open sourceNetwork & Firewall ManagementHeadquarters: ES

SKUDONET: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SKUDONET is an application delivery and security platform built on open-source technology, combining load balancing, high availability, security and traffic control, managed through a web GUI. Security features include a web application firewall, DDoS protection, TLS/SSL inspection, API protection and a secure web gateway. The Community Edition is free and open source, available as source code or an installable ISO. The Enterprise Edition builds on it with additional scalability, visibility and security, plus support, and is offered as a virtual appliance, as software for bare metal or as hardware. SkudoCloud is a SaaS load balancer with no infrastructure to manage.

SKUDONET is headquartered in Mairena del Aljarafe near Seville, Spain. It began in 2010 as Zen Load Balancer, was later renamed Zevenet, and is now SKUDONET, described as the legal and technical continuation of Zevenet. When self-hosted, you decide where traffic is processed; the website does not state a hosting location for SkudoCloud.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 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-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-6100
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 September 20, 2026

Headquarters	ES (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category	Network & Firewall Management
Type	Product
Website	skudonet.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 SKUDONET

The European alternatives to SKUDONET 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 SKUDONET

SKUDONET is headquartered in ES 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 SKUDONET scores best on data residency.

SKUDONET 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 SKUDONET 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 SKUDONET?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SKUDONET include Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Allegro Packets and Arelion. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SKUDONET?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SKUDONET include BIRD Internet Routing Daemon and Deciso OPNsense. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

SKUDONET is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes SKUDONET 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 September 20, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice when it was added on September 20, 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

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?

Digital sovereignty in Network & Firewall Management

Network & Firewall Management: Central management of firewalls, switches and Wi-Fi, network access control (NAC), load balancing and DNS/DHCP/IPAM. 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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