03 May Statement on the partnership between ECA and TeleTrusT Germany

ECA is proud to announce the establishment of a strategic partnership with TeleTrusT Germany

Based in Berlin, TeleTrusT is a leading association gathering the best German companies active in Cybersecurity.

The purpose of the partnership, as agreed between Teletrust and ECA, is to:

• Incubate new ideas and practice for scale-ups in the European cybersecurity ecosystem;
• Convening on cybersecurity issues and contexts with a cross-cutting European scope, with particular attention to the German and the French territories for the start;
• Networking cybersecurity resources to promote the creation of European Champions, including helping German companies for French market entry and exchanges with French companies locally, and conversely;
• Knowledge capture and management to help the European Champions Alliance focus group cybersecurity do a mapping of the “cyber ecosystem”, and hence identify opportunities for growth of its members.

Further to the conclusion oft he agreement, some of the companies members of Teletrust have contacted ECA to discuss possible ways of action.

ECA considers this agreement as a major opportunity to create better conditions for the development of a European offer in Cybersecurity.

The ECA-Team thanks Dr. Holger Mühlbauer, Managing Director of TeleTrusT for his cooperation and motivation on this partnership.

More about TeleTrusT, the IT Security Association Germany:

The IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT) is a widespread competence network for IT security comprising members from industry, administration, consultancy and research as well as national and international partner organizations with similar objectives. With a broad range of members and partner organizations TeleTrusT embodies the largest competence network for IT security in Germany and Europe. TeleTrusT provides interdisciplinary fora for IT security experts and facilitates information exchange between vendors, users, researchers and authorities. TeleTrusT comments on technical, political and legal issues related to IT security and is organizer of events and conferences. TeleTrusT is a non-profit association, whose objective is to promote information security professionalism, raising awareness and best practices in all domains of information security. TeleTrusT is carrier of the “European Bridge CA” (EBCA; PKI network of trust), the IT expert certification schemes “TeleTrusT Information Security Professional” (T.I.S.P.) and “TeleTrusT Professional for Secure Software Engineering” (T.P.S.S.E.) and provides the trust seal “IT Security made in Germany”. TeleTrusT is a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The association is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.