Germany’s two BSI-qualified protection providers compared: compliance-maximal Myra against performance-led Link11 in the sovereignty market both created.
Winner depends on your workload.
Winner depends on: how hard your regulator bites — KRITIS, BaFin-grade and public-sector estates lean Myra’s certification-maximal posture; commercial platforms wanting sovereign protection at speed and sharper entry pricing lean Link11.
Side by side
| Myra Security | Link11 | |
|---|---|---|
| Base | Munich, founded 2012; exclusively German data centers | Frankfurt; European scrubbing centers, global infrastructure |
| BSI status | Qualified DDoS mitigation provider (§3 BSIG); meets all 37 criteria | Qualified DDoS mitigation provider (§3 BSIG) |
| Certifications | ISO 27001 on BSI IT-Grundschutz, BSI C5 Type 2, PCI DSS, IDW PS 951 | ISO-certified operations; EU data residency |
| Stack | DDoS L3/4/7, WAF (+managed add-on), bot management, CDN | DDoS, next-gen WAF/WAAP, bot management, API protection, secure CDN |
| Signature claim | Compliance-maximal: GDPR, NIS-2, DORA alignment; KRITIS focus | Patented AI detection; 0–10 second time-to-mitigate; 24/7 SOC |
| Buyer center | Government, KRITIS, banks, health | E-commerce, SaaS, hosting, high-traffic portals |
The duel only Europe could stage
Both companies sell what the American giants structurally cannot: protection under German jurisdiction, processed in European data centers, beyond the reach of the CLOUD Act and FISA 702 — the properties that decide procurement for Europe’s regulated estates. Both appear on the German Federal Office for Information Security’s list of qualified DDoS mitigation providers. The duel is over posture within that shared sovereignty: Myra is compliance-maximal, Link11 is performance-led, and the difference tracks their customers almost perfectly.
Myra: certification as the product
Munich-based Myra, founded in 2012 and operating exclusively from German data centers, has turned auditability into its core feature. It meets all 37 of the BSI’s qualification criteria, and stacks ISO 27001 built on BSI IT-Grundschutz, BSI C5 Type 2, PCI DSS and IDW PS 951 Type 2 on top — a portfolio that collapses months of vendor due diligence for KRITIS operators, BaFin-supervised banks and public agencies. Its references read accordingly: federal ministries, district governments, DKB. The protection stack — L3/4/7 DDoS, WAF with a managed-service add-on, bot management, CDN — is solid rather than flashy; the premium you pay is for the paperwork no global vendor can produce, an argument we saw from another angle in Sucuri vs Myra.
Link11: sovereign speed
Frankfurt’s Link11 sells the same jurisdiction with a different lead: performance. Its patented, AI-driven detection advertises a zero-to-ten-second time-to-mitigate backed by a 24/7 SOC, and its platform has broadened into a full WAAP — next-gen WAF, bot management, API protection — riding a secure CDN from European data centers, with global infrastructure behind the EU scrubbing core. Its center of gravity is commercial: e-commerce, SaaS, hosting providers and high-traffic portals that need sovereignty for GDPR comfort but buy on mitigation speed and total cost, where buyer reviews consistently grade Link11’s entry economics ahead. Its acquisitive growth — absorbing the Reblaze technology among others, as covered in Imperva vs Link11/Reblaze — has filled out the application-security layer fast.
The honest overlaps and gaps
Both defend all layers competently; both run German SOCs your auditors can call; both will host every byte in Europe. The gaps are at the edges. Myra’s global CDN footprint is smaller — non-European visitors feel it, and worldwide platforms should test latency before committing. Link11’s certification stack, while ISO-grounded and BSI-qualified, does not match Myra’s C5-Type-2-and-beyond portfolio — for a KRITIS filing, that difference is the decision. And neither publishes pricing: both quote enterprise contracts, with Myra’s reflecting its certified environment and Link11’s typically landing sharper at entry. Figures and certifications checked against provider documentation and the BSI’s published list, July 2026.
How to decide
Let your regulator choose. If your obligations name BSI C5, KRITIS measures, DORA or IT-Grundschutz — or your board wants the vendor German authorities themselves use — Myra’s premium buys certainty nothing else matches. If you need sovereign protection for a commercial platform — fast mitigation, WAAP breadth, sharper economics — Link11 is the pragmatic pick. And if you’re a global platform adding an EU-sovereign leg to a larger estate, both pair cleanly behind a multi-vendor front: sovereignty, after all, is a per-jurisdiction property.
Facing NIS-2, DORA or KRITIS obligations? The assessment maps both sovereign stacks against your compliance file.