INDUSTRY
Varnish for EU-Regulated Industries
Deliver world-class digital experiences and high-speed edge performance while satisfying European data locality, NIS2 supply chain obligations as well as Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) compatibility.
Challenges
High-performance infrastructure without legal and operational compromise
Operating digital platforms within highly regulated European organizations requires balancing data compliance with modern performance standards. From public portals to internal development networks, infrastructure teams must operate under strict regulatory perimeters where data visibility gaps carry severe legal liabilities.
Frameworks like the NIS2 directive mandate rigorous risk management across third-party networks, but relying on global providers introduces non-transparent routing. Infrastructure teams need technology that reduces latency, limits cloud egress costs, and shields origin servers from application-layer threats, while keeping data within European jurisdictions.
Critical infrastructure challenges Varnish helps European enterprises resolve
NIS2 compliance & governance
Directives like NIS2 and the proposed CADA Act require organizations to protect their digital supply chains against extra-territorial data access and third-party risk. Global CDNs make it difficult to track where metadata and logs are processed or stored and US based CDNs are in direct violation with NIS2 and CADA Act due to the US Cloud Act and FISA section 702.
Severe regulatory compliance penalties, failed security audits, and vulnerability to extra-territorial legal data claims.
Varnish CDN establishes a fully sovereign delivery layer operated by a European entity, keeping all traffic routing, transaction logs, and metadata strictly within European jurisdiction.
Edge security, bot mitigation, and application protection
Regulated platforms face sophisticated cyber threats like application-layer exploits, volumetric DDoS attacks, and malicious scraping. Without real-time edge mitigation, these threats directly penetrate core servers, risking data breaches and operational downtime.
Severe data exposure, service disruptions, compromised consumer trust, and costly regulatory non-compliance penalties from unmitigated security vulnerabilities.
Varnish CDN intercepts threats in real time using unmetered DDoS protection, an advanced Atomicorp WAF, and advanced bot mitigation before they ever reach your servers.
Software supply chain security
CI/CD pipelines frequently fetch external dependencies, creating unmonitored attack surfaces. Direct public internet egress for build workers risks malicious package injection and non-compliance with critical software supply chain standards like SBOM requirements.
Exposure to compromised software builds, regulatory non-compliance, and catastrophic vulnerabilities via unverified dependencies and unmonitored network connections.
Varnish Artifact Firewall is a high-performance security proxy positioned between CI pipelines and registries that enforces security policies before third-party packages ever reach a build.
Cloud egress and infrastructure costs
Multi-cloud topologies incur unpredictable data egress fees. Building a custom, compliant private CDN to ensure absolute European data sovereignty demands massive engineering resources and introduces severe infrastructure complexity.
Inflated operational budgets, unpredictable cloud spend, and drained engineering velocity from managing complex, manually built delivery infrastructure.
Varnish CDN delivers sovereign control with SaaS simplicity, eliminating cloud egress traps through transparent pricing and code-free edge logic deployment.
Solutions tailored for European compliance
Accelerate and control EU traffic and data
Route and cache user-facing application traffic entirely within European jurisdiction, eliminating extraterritorial legal exposure while maintaining lightning-fast edge performance.
Secure software supply chains
Intercept malicious, compromised, or vulnerable third-party packages at the request boundary before they enter your build environments.
Neutralize application and bot threats at the edge
Intercept malicious traffic, automated scraping networks, and OWASP Top 10 exploits in real time before they can impact your origin servers or compliance perimeters.
PRODUCTS
Varnish CDN
Varnish CDN is a fully European-hosted Content Delivery Network that packages enterprise-grade caching and security into a code-free, managed SaaS solution.
- European entity ensures zero CLOUD Act exposure.
- Local logs and full-path observability satisfy NIS2.
- Integrates advanced bot defense and WAF.
- Predictable pricing, free tier, no egress traps.
PRODUCTS
Varnish Artifact Firewall
Varnish Artifact Firewall provides real-time artifact security by controlling how dependencies move through your infrastructure. It helps teams govern dependency traffic before packages reach build pipelines, Kubernetes environments or runtime systems.
- Stop malicious dependencies before they reach build pipelines
- Block dependency confusion attacks at the point of entry
- Enforce policy across distributed CI/CD, Kubernetes and AI environments
- Support auditability with structured logs and observability hooks
FAQ
Varnish CDN supports NIS2 compliance by providing full-path visibility, local data residency, and European log retention. This transparency allows regulated entities to document their digital supply chains and satisfy strict risk management requirements under EU jurisdiction.
Varnish CDN is a sovereign CDN operated by a European entity with no U.S. parent company, eliminating U.S. CLOUD Act and FISA 702 exposure. Global CDNs route traffic and logs through foreign jurisdictions, even if servers are physically located within Europe.
Varnish Artifact Firewall secures software delivery pipelines by intercepting third-party packages at the request boundary. It blocks malicious inputs and dependency confusion, enabling secure, air-gapped CI/CD operations with zero public internet egress.
Varnish CDN maintains low latency using the Varnish Enterprise engine while executing security checks at the edge. It integrates unmetered DDoS protection, an advanced Atomicorp WAF, and bot mitigation to stop threats before hitting origin servers.
No, migrating to Varnish CDN requires zero rearchitecting because it operates as a code-free SaaS solution. Teams can protect origins and deploy edge logic in minutes simply by defining their origin server and updating their DNS endpoint.
Yes, Varnish CDN offers a fully functional Free Tier designed specifically for testing and proofs-of-concept. This allows teams to validate edge performance, compliance, and data locality with zero upfront financial commitment.
The Varnish Book
The Varnish Book is a practical book full of tips and best practices for getting the most out of your Varnish setup and reaching new heights in your caching operations, whether you’re new to Varnish or an experienced pro.
Dig Deeper
Tutorial
Varnish CDN quick start guide
Learn how to get started with Varnish CDN in just a few clicks.
Blog post
Data residency is not sovereignty
Explore the gap between residency and sovereignty, and what true structural independence means for CDN compliance under NIS2 and GDPR.
Tutorial
Get started with Artifact Firewall
Block known-vulnerable and freshly-published npm packages before they ever reach your builds
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Align your digital infrastructure with the future of European security standards in just a few clicks.
