Endpoint & Threat Infrastructure
Europe has produced several globally competitive endpoint security and threat detection companies, including Bitdefender (Romania), ESET (Slovakia), WithSecure (Finland), Sophos (UK), and Darktrace (UK) for AI-driven threat detection. These providers consistently match or exceed US competitors in independent evaluations, and their European jurisdiction means telemetry data stays under EU data protection law by default. The gap is in the broader XDR/SIEM platform market, where CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender still dominate enterprise adoption across Europe.