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USP Secure Entry Server: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

USP Secure Entry Server (SES) is a product suite from United Security Providers AG for protecting web applications and APIs. According to the vendor, it combines a web application firewall (SES WAF), authentication with single sign-on and strong authentication (SES Authenticate), and identity management with federation (SES Identity). The WAF uses a hybrid security model that includes the OWASP Core Rule Set with auto-learning, anomaly detection, protection against denial-of-service attacks and API protection.

United Security Providers AG is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. Switzerland is not an EU member state but an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. SES is installed and operated by the customer, on-premises, in a hybrid setup or in containers such as OpenShift. Your traffic and logs then stay on your own infrastructure and are not hosted by the vendor. The same company's separate sorbay cloud offering names Swiss data centres. The pages consulted say nothing about ownership or a parent company, so ask the vendor during procurement.

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Sovereignty score
80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in CH (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cybersecurity
Type
Product
Website
united-security-providers.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to USP Secure Entry Server

The European alternatives to USP Secure Entry Server come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 USP Secure Entry Server

USP Secure Entry Server is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

USP Secure Entry Server runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

USP Secure Entry Server is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs USP Secure Entry Server 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 USP Secure Entry Server?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to USP Secure Entry Server include 1Protection.AI, Actalis and advact. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to USP Secure Entry Server?

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

Is USP Secure Entry Server GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

USP Secure Entry Server is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes USP Secure Entry Server 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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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
united-security-providers.ch/.well-known/security.txt

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