7 European AI Security vendors.
AI Security: Security for AI/LLM systems — prompt-injection detection, AI red-teaming, agentic security posture management and AI governance guardrails. Below, every vendor in the knowledge base headquartered in the EU or the EEA, each checked by us for headquarters, owner, hosting and licence. Non-European vendors are listed at the bottom with a link to their European alternatives.
62 vendors in total: 7 European, 44 American, 11 other; 18 open source. Last checked: 6 October 2026.
Why this matters for digital sovereignty
AI security tools typically get full visibility into your prompts, model output and agent actions to detect attacks like prompt injection, which can send sensitive business and customer data outside your own environment. Check where that telemetry is processed, who the vendor's ultimate owner is and whether on-premise or EU hosting is available.
European vendors
- 2021.AI GRACEEU sovereign
Danish AI governance platform enabling organisational control and oversight of AI systems with comprehensive data governance, EU data residency, and GDPR compliance for critical infrastructure.
Denmark
- CalypsoAIEU-hosted, non-EU parent
Irish enterprise AI security platform acting as a control layer between employees and LLMs to filter data leaks and prompt injections; acquired by US-based F5 Networks in September 2025.
Ireland · owner in United States
- GiskardEU sovereign
French open-source platform for AI testing, red-teaming and guardrails.
France · open-source
- LakeraEU-hosted, non-EU parent
Swiss AI security platform for testing LLM/GenAI vulnerabilities and automated red-teaming, with an AI security centre in Zurich; acquired by Israel's Check Point Software Technologies in 2026.
Switzerland · owner in Israel
- Mistral ShieldstralSelf-hosted / open source
3B-parameter policy-adaptive safety classifier released by Mistral AI (France) under Apache 2.0 as open weights, for on-device content moderation. Mistral AI is a real company, so not a controlling-company-free project despite the open licence.
France · open-source
- NeuralTrustEU sovereign
Spanish AI agent security platform (Barcelona): vulnerability and attack detection plus compliance, with a split-plane architecture that keeps data in the customer's own VPC.
Spain
- TaoQ AISelf-hosted / open source
Applied AI research and engineering company specialising in AI security, agent red-teaming, and EU AI Act conformity with open-source security testing frameworks for intelligent systems.
Netherlands · open-source
Non-European vendors in this category
For each vendor, the page with European alternatives and the sovereignty profile.
- Non-EU vendorAiriaUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorAktoUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorAporiaIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorArize AI / PhoenixUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorArthur AI (Arthur Shield)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorAurascapeUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorBraintrustUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorCisco AI DefenseUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorCraniumUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorCredo AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorCrowdStrike Falcon AIDRUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorCyCraft TechnologyTaiwan · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorDeepchecksIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorDeepKeepIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorEnkrypt AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorEvidently AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorFairNowUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorFiddler AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorForcepoint ONE Data Security for AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorGarak (NVIDIA)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorGuardrails AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorHiddenLayerUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorHolistic AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorHoneyHiveUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourceLangkit (WhyLabs)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorLasso SecurityIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorLevoUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorLlama Guard (Meta)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourceLLM Guard (Protect AI)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorMindgardUnited Kingdom · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorMonitaurUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorNetskope AI SecurityUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorNoma SecurityIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorNVIDIA NeMo GuardrailsUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorOnyx SecurityIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPatronus AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPillar SecurityIsrael · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPointGuard AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourcePortkey AIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourcePresidio (Microsoft)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourceProject AsagoUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPromptfooUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorProtect AI (Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorPyRIT (Microsoft)United States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorSingulrUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorSophos AI DefenseUnited Kingdom · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorStraikerUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorTrustwiseUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorValidMindUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Self-hosted / open sourceVigilUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorVijilUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorWitnessAIUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorWiz AI-SPM (Atlas)Israel · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorZenityUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
- Non-EU vendorZscaler AI GuardUnited States · 7 EU alternatives
Frequently asked questions
Which European AI Security vendors are there?
The knowledge base lists 7 European AI Security vendors, including 2021.AI GRACE, CalypsoAI, Giskard and Lakera. Every record is checked for headquarters, ultimate owner, hosting locations and licence.
Are there open-source options for AI Security?
Yes. Open-source AI Security software from Europe includes Giskard, Mistral Shieldstral and TaoQ AI; you can self-host it with the encryption keys under your own control.