Non-EU vendorCybersecurityHeadquarters: US

Veracode: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Veracode is an application security platform. According to the vendor it includes static and dynamic analysis (SAST and DAST), software composition analysis, container security, a package firewall, AI-assisted vulnerability remediation, a risk management layer (ASPM), security training and penetration testing as a service. It is delivered through the cloud and integrates with developer tools, so development teams can check for vulnerabilities during software development.

Veracode is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, in the United States, and its majority owner is the US private equity firm TA Associates. For European customers, a 2022 press article describes a cloud instance in Frankfurt in which customer data stays in the EU. Veracode states that it complies with data privacy laws including GDPR and offers a data processing addendum; its Trust Center page also lists GDPR, sub-processors and SOC 2. As a US company, Veracode is subject to US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act, even when data sits in the EU region. Source code and scan results are sensitive, so check the current hosting region.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
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

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Cybersecurity
Type	Product
Website	veracode.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Veracode

The European alternatives to Veracode 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 Veracode

Veracode 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.

Veracode hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Veracode 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 Veracode 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 Veracode?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Veracode?

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

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

Veracode is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. 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.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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.

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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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