EU Sovereignty Score
EU-hosted, non-EU parentBusiness Email & GroupwareHeadquarters: NL

Zivver: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Zivver is a service for secure email and file sharing. Its modules cover encrypted email, protection against email threats, DMARC management and awareness training. It is offered as a web application, as an Outlook and Gmail plug-in and as a mobile app, on subscription plans for organisations of different sizes, particularly in healthcare, finance, legal services, government and education.

Zivver is headquartered in Amsterdam and also has offices in London and New York. In June 2025 Kiteworks, based in Silicon Valley, California, acquired Zivver, so the parent company falls under US jurisdiction. According to the vendor, neither Zivver nor the cloud provider hosting the data can access encrypted content. The website does not state where data centres are located, but after the acquisition Zivver announced sovereign deployment options on-premises, in a private cloud or in a public cloud. A European organisation should therefore settle the hosting location and the data processing agreement before subscribing.

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 October 10, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
USVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Zivver

The European alternatives to Zivver 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 Zivver

Zivver is headquartered in NL 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 US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

Zivver 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 Zivver 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 Zivver?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Zivver include Axigen, Benno MailArchiv and BlueMind. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Zivver?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Zivver include Benno MailArchiv, CipherMail, Dovecot and EGroupware. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Zivver is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Zivver 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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Compliance evidence

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