Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has partnered with OVHcloud on a security platform designed for European data sovereignty.

The Bucharest-based firm will host its GravityZone cybersecurity platform on OVHcloud’s France-based services, in a bid to deliver sovereign-based security that keeps data within confines of the European Union (EU). Bitdefender partners and managed service providers (MSPs) will also be able to deliver and manage this instance of GravityZone for customers with EU data residency requirements.

The platform – which includes endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), and cloud-native security capabilities – will be specifically hosted on OVHcloud’s SecNumCloud service. The offering from Europe's largest data center provider is named for the framework established by France’s Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), and meets its 360-plus technical, organizational, and legal requirements.

“Businesses across Europe need security solutions that deliver advanced threat prevention, protection, detection, and response without sacrificing data sovereignty,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager of Bitdefender Business Solutions Group.

“Partnering with OVHcloud delivers this, giving regulated industries the confidence to adopt leading-edge cybersecurity while maintaining full control over how their data is stored, processed, and secured … [and] customers know their data remains within the EU. They also gain an easier path to compliance for GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and other regulations.”

Earlier this year, OVHcloud partnered with Norwegian cloud provider Crayon to develop a sovereign European data infrastructure. That agreement enabled organizations to access and build in more than 45 regions with the potential to deploy cloud services on OVHcloud data centers.

More recently, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) were made available on OVHcloud’s European cloud platform, targeting Nutanix customers facing EU regulations with their data.

The European data residency question has seen Cisco, SAP, SUSE, Microsoft and more invest in EU-compliant solutions within recent months, as the EU Data Act kicked into gear in September to weaken vendor lock-in for Europe's cloud customers.

In a recent DCD Compute panel attended by SDxCentral, execs questioned the level of detail and commitment in ensuring European data sovereignty, highlighting that while the continent may be advancing on data centers and silicon, it may always rely on third-party nations to build out the full-stack supply chain.