Why Being Part of the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue Matters

Malloc Joins the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue

Malloc Joins the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue

A few years ago, the idea of “digital sovereignty” sounded like something for policy makers or academic panels. It felt distant from day-to-day technology. But that is no longer true. Today, European organisations, governments, and even individual users are starting to understand that relying entirely on tools built and controlled outside Europe comes with very real risks.

This is where the **Tech Sovereignty Catalogue, created by the European DIGITAL SME Alliance, comes in. It gathers European companies that build solutions aligned with European values: privacy, independence, transparency, and resilience.* It’s not just a directory. It’s a signal that says, “these are real alternatives you can trust.”*

Many of the technologies we depend on — email, storage, security, cloud infrastructure — are designed around surveillance, monetisation, or opaque business models. The catalogue highlights companies that do the opposite. They develop their products in Europe, protect user data, and help build capacity rather than dependence.

The urgency is no longer theoretical. According to Gartner, 61% of CIOs and IT leaders in Western Europe expect geopolitical factors to increase their reliance on local or regional providers. That number tells its own story: organisations are no longer comfortable outsourcing their digital foundations to entities they cannot fully understand or influence.

And while most conversations about digital sovereignty focus on cloud providers and enterprise infrastructure, there is an even more personal frontier: our phones. Mobile devices have become the single point of truth about our lives. They contain our messages, photos, financial information, authentication tokens, health data, professional accounts, and location trails. They run constantly in the background, generating data that can be weaponised by attackers, advertisers, or anyone in between.

This is why mobile threats have exploded. In the past year, mobile attacks grew by more than 50%. Spyware tools that were once used only by governments are now commercial products. Zero-click exploits — attacks that require no user interaction — are no longer rare. When a phone is compromised, a person’s entire digital life becomes exposed.

***Malloc was created in response to this reality.* From the beginning, we chose a path that many others avoid: building mobile security that protects users without collecting their information. Our technology works on the device itself. It detects suspicious behaviour, prevents leakage, and blocks surveillance practices — without feeding user data into analytics pipelines or monetisation systems. We don’t believe people should have to surrender their privacy to protect it.

Being included in the Tech Sovereignty Catalogue matters because it places us alongside others who share the same philosophy. It shows that our approach — privacy-first, European-built, user-respecting — is not only possible but necessary. It’s a step toward an ecosystem where Europeans have access to tools that reflect their values, rather than accepting that digital safety must come at the cost of digital agency.

For us, the catalogue isn’t the end of anything. It’s a beginning. It connects us to organisations who believe in the same future: one where security, innovation, and independence reinforce each other instead of competing. And we’re proud to be part of that conversation.