Bundesdruckerei and secunet cooperate on sovereign cloud offerings for the public sector
Berlin and Essen, 12. August 2024 – secunet, Germany’s leading cybersecurity company, provides sovereign cloud services for the Bundesdruckerei Group, the German federal government’s technology company. These are offered in particular to public authorities and administrations with high availability requirements. The scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution from secunet subsidiary and cloud-native specialist SysEleven provides a solid basis for the operation of Bundesdruckerei’s established development and operating platform.
“The successful integration of the secunet solutions is an important step for Bundesdruckerei’s cloud strategy,” says Dr Stefan Hofschen, CEO of Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH. “As a technology company for the German federal government, we want to offer our customers with high availability requirements a secure, resilient and consistently structured system architecture in the sense of security by design.” With the solutions that have now become possible, the company will be able to act faster on the market, scale more easily and offer customers from the public and private sectors modern applications with full data control based on a sovereign cloud infrastructure. “The collaboration between secunet and Bundesdruckerei on sovereign cloud offerings facilitates the secure migration to cloud technologies,” says Hofschen.
The joint offering fulfils the requirements of authorities and companies for a modern infrastructure, digital sovereignty and national security interests. It stands for the cooperation partners’ many years of experience in the development and operation of trustworthy solutions.
secunet continues to invest in cloud platform
“Our investments in the development of sovereign cloud solutions for public administration through the expansion of our open source-based platform and comprehensive certifications have led to market-ready solutions,” explains Axel Deininger, CEO of secunet. “This is demonstrated by our cooperation with Bundesdruckerei. With over 25 years of experience in IT security, we provide a modern IT infrastructure that meets particularly high standards in terms of data and identity protection.”
The public cloud offering is now available for public authorities and companies that require a secure cloud solution for critical workloads.
Norbert Müller, Vice President Cloud Solutions at secunet and Managing Director of SysEleven, adds: “Our cloud and cloud-native solutions are designed in such a way that we can customise them to meet the individual needs of our clients. Bundesdruckerei is already using first IT infrastructure components in our modern, powerful and sustainable data centres. We and Bundesdruckerei are thus making a decisive contribution to Germany’s digital sovereignty.”
secunet – Protecting Digital Infrastructures
secunet is Germany’s leading cybersecurity company. In an increasingly connected world, the company’s combination of products and consulting assures resilient digital infrastructures and the utmost protection for data, applications and digital identities. secunet specialises in areas with unique security requirements – such as cloud, IIoT, eGovernment and eHealth. With security solutions from secunet, companies can maintain the highest security standards in digitisation projects and advance their digital transformation.
Over 1,000 experts strengthen the digital sovereignty of governments, businesses and society. secunet’s customers include federal ministries, more than 20 DAX-listed corporations as well as other national and international organisations. The company was established in 1997, is listed at the German Stock Exchange and generated revenues of 393.7 million euros in 2023.
secunet is an IT security partner to the Federal Republic of Germany and a partner of the German Alliance for Cyber Security.
Further information can be found at www.secunet.com
Press contact
Patrick Franitza
Spokesman
secunet Security Networks AG
Kurfürstenstraße 58
45138 Essen/Germany
Phone +49 201 54 54-1234
Fax +49 201 54 54-1235
E-mail: presse@secunet.com
About SysEleven
SysEleven GmbH serves more than 500 customers in the D/A/CH market and employs over 170 people. As a cloud and Kubernetes managed service provider, SysEleven specializes in the operation of distributed and business-critical systems and the rapid scaling of workloads.
The wholly owned subsidiary of Germany’s leading cybersecurity company secunet Security Networks AG supports organizations that want to complete their transformation to cloud native and value speed, flexibility and autonomy. SysEleven’s service portfolio consists of comprehensive services – from concept consulting and Kubernetes training to fully managed operation. At the heart of the vertical technology stack is “MetaKube”, a managed Kubernetes offering that enables organizations to develop and operate web-based software products. SysEleven has been a member of the Cloud Computing Native Foundation (CNCF) and a certified Kubernetes provider since 2018.
SysEleven places great importance on data protection and digital sovereignty and is therefore certified for the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS). All solutions are therefore hosted exclusively in ISO27001-certified German data centers. This enables customers and partners to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The range of services offered by the company, which was founded in 2007, includes Managed Cloud Services, an OpenStack Public Cloud, Managed Kubernetes, and various network services. Its customers include DFS Aviation Services, FTAPI, smartsteuer, VHV Versicherungen, FarmFacts, medgate, Der Tagesspiegel, and Golem.de.
You can find out more at https://www.syseleven.de.
About Bundesdruckerei Group
As a German federal technology company, the Bundesdruckerei Group is contributing to the digital sovereignty of Germany and Europe with its digital and security expertise. In this way, the Group is creating trust in society. Its individual companies offer identification systems along with products and solutions relating to cyber security and digitisation – for the public sector and for areas of society and the economy that are worthy of protection.
Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH is the parent company of Bundesdruckerei GmbH with its subsidiary Maurer Electronics GmbH plus D-Trust GmbH, genua GmbH, Xecuro GmbH and iNCO Spółka z o.o. The group of companies currently employs a total of more than 4,500 people and generated sales of around 1.04 billion euros in 2023. Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH also holds shares in Veridos GmbH, DERMALOG Identification Systems GmbH and Verimi GmbH.
For more information, go to www.bundesdruckerei.de.
Press contact Bundesdruckerei
Marc Thylmann
Spokesman
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Pone: +49 (0)30 2598 2810
E-mail: marc.thylmann@bdr.de
