secunet Security Networks
| secunet Security Networks AG
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0007276503 |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat |
Essen , Germany
|
| management |
|
| Number of employees | 525 |
| sales | 163.3 million euros |
| Branch | IT services |
| Website | www.secunet.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Secunet Security Networks AG (own spelling secunet Security Networks AG ) is a publicly traded IT -Unternehmen headquartered in Essen . The company offers its customers solutions (products and services) related to IT security and IT high security. In addition to the headquarters in Essen, there are other locations in Berlin , Bonn , Dresden , Eschborn , Hamburg , Ilmenau , Munich , Paderborn , Siegen and Stuttgart .
history
With the advent of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, TÜV Mitte AG in Essen had expanded its field of activity to include checking the security of networks . The digital signature and encryption technologies played a major role here. Since more and more companies wanted to have their networks checked and secured, TÜV Mitte AG spun off its IT security department in 1997 under the name SecuNet Security Networks .
In November 1999 the company went public and from then on traded under the name of secunet Security Networks AG . The company has since been listed in the Prime Standard of the German stock exchange . Giesecke & Devrient GmbH in Munich, which in turn is owned by the Mitschke-Collande family, is the main owner with 79% shares (as of 2014) . Approx. 10% of the shares are in free float.
In 2004, the federal government signed a cooperation agreement to improve IT security in Germany with secunet Security Networks AG. The so-called IT security partnership was confirmed during CeBIT in 2009 by the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble .
Products
SINA
SINA was launched on the market in 2002 . SINA (Secure Inter-Network Architecture) is based on a concept that describes an architecture for processing sensitive information in insecure networks. The concept originally comes from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). Based on a created IPsec - crypto - Gateway , the sharing of sensitive information about a potentially insecure network such as the Internet allows. The so-called SINA box was developed by secunet in cooperation with the BSI.
In addition to the SINA box, there are now clients and line encryptors under the name SINA that aim to ensure secure communication. Individual components of SINA solutions are in Germany to the classification level Top Secret admitted. There are also international approvals for these products.
SINA is also used by the Foreign Office to transmit data and has also been used for encrypting VoIP calls since 2011 .
Golden Reader Tool
This software application made it possible for the first time to read out ICAO- compliant eMRTDs (Electronic Machine Readable Travel Documents ) such as electronic passports. This created the prerequisites for worldwide interoperability in the area of eMRTDs based on the requirements of the ICAO and the EU .
The Golden Reader Tool was created in a cooperation between the BSI and secunet and was successfully used in numerous interoperability tests - including in Prague in 2008. The software is internationally recognized as a functional reference implementation in the field of electronic passports.
easygate
The automated border control secunet easygate was developed on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . The nationwide rollout began in 2014 under the EasyPASS project . It is now used at Frankfurt , Munich , Hamburg , Düsseldorf , Berlin-Tegel and Cologne / Bonn airports .
The system uses the data electronically stored in the passport for control purposes and carries out a biometric comparison of the face with the photo stored in the passport to establish identity .
For this purpose, the travelers place their travel document on the document reader located at the entrance of the control gate, which reads the electronic data from the travel document and carries out an authenticity check. The traveler then enters the lock, where the biometric comparison of the face captured by a camera with the passport photo is carried out.
If the travel document is genuine and the biometric comparison has been carried out successfully, the exit opens and the border control is over. Otherwise, you will be escorted to a border police officer of the federal police.
The border control with easygate ideally takes less than 18 seconds and thus speeds up border control. This is made possible by the parallel operation of up to six eGates , because significantly more control capacities are available for travelers.
Web links
- secunet.com - Official website of Secunet
Individual evidence
- ↑ secunet.com: Management. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2018. Accessed on May 21, 2019 .
- ↑ secunet AG - locations. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
- ^ Heise.de: Security cooperation between the Ministry of the Interior and IT security company. Retrieved April 20, 2015 .
- ^ Security partnerships of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 27, 2015 ; Retrieved April 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ heise.de: VPN gateway for "Top Secret" level of confidentiality. Retrieved April 20, 2015 .
- ↑ IT Commissioner of the Federal Government: The Federal Foreign Office integrates VoIP client into the SINA Virtual Workstation. Retrieved April 20, 2015 .
- ↑ ICAO Magazine: Interoperability Testing (p. 16 ff.). (PDF file; 5.4 MB) Accessed April 20, 2015 (English).
- ↑ secunet.com: secunet GRT Platinum Edition. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
- ↑ secunet.com: Automated border control - easy going with easygate. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
