IT-Seal – about us
IT-Seal – about us
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We are IT-Seal
from Security Valley Darmstadt
As part of the Hornetsecurity Group, IT-Seal specializes in IT-Security Awareness Training. Using innovative technologies, IT-Seal trains employees of medium-sized and large companies to effectively recognize and avert risks in the area of IT-Security.
We believe that every person makes an important contribution to everyone’s IT security. Therefore, we want to start with the human factor and thus jointly make our digital society and economy secure.
We use innovative technologies to train our clients’ employees on autopilot – in line with their needs and based on key figures. Our scientific security awareness indicator ESI® makes IT security awareness measurable and thus comparable.
A passion for security awareness - our founding team
We help you and your employees to build a sustainable security culture.
David Kelm
Customer Success,
Certified Risk Manager
David Kelm is the idea generator and the main person in charge of the implementation of the projects. David received the Best-Student-Award of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for his bachelor thesis. After a period of study abroad in Lisbon, David graduated in 2015 with the M.Sc. in Computer Science and M.Sc. in IT-Security at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In addition, as a passionate sportsman, he likes to travels with a disc in his hand, in the mountains or on water. David likes mountains.
Alex Wyllie
Business Development,
Marketing & Sales
Alex Wyllie is an initiator and founder with a background in natural sciences, whose organizational strengths include project coordination and innovation management. After his bachelor’s degree, he was in Australia for research and study and in 2015 he completed his studies as M.Sc. in molecular biotechnology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In the meantime he spent his weekends with a Scottish handball team and travelled through Europe. Alex likes Europe.
Yannic Ambach
Technology & Product,
Certified IT Security Officer
Yannic Ambach does the technical development and implements the necessary processes together with David. Yannic studied in the field of quantum information processing at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and completed his M.Sc. in physics at the end of 2015. His enthusiasm for IT security goes back to his youth and resulted in the foundation of the IT Security startup. When he’s not spending his nights in front of the computer, he likes to rope down and pretend to do hobbies like windsurfing. Yannic likes windsurfing.
Corporate philosophy
Our mission is to enable IT security managers to train their employees individually and reliably with our easy-to-use workflow so that they can protect their company.
Respect
The protection of the employee data and company internals entrusted to us takes center stage. We treat the know-how of our customers with respect and value the time spent working with us.
Professionalism
IT-Seal is characterised by profound, up-to-date expertise and a scientific approach. We value clear communication.
Openness
We maintain open communication and clearly address ideas, suggestions and problems at an early stage. We cultivate a comprehensive feedback culture in our cooperation. We provide our clients with a transparent risk analysis.
Flexibility
We see it as a strength of our start-up character to flexibly adapt our services to the needs of our customers and partners.
Our mission: Together to a sustainable security culture!
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Sustainable security culture
Awareness technology
- Awareness Engine
- Employee Security Index (ESI® )
- Patented Spear-Phishing-Engine
- Security Hub
Special focus on protection of employee- & data privacy
Every technology is designed to enrich human beings. If a person is able to use a technology, he can achieve great things.
There is often the feeling that IT security in general does the opposite: IT security systems prevent the user of being productive and users are the biggest threat to IT security.
We believe that it is time to reunite IT security with the user.
We believe that by empowering themselves, people can regain the freedom and confidence to do more with modern technology.
We believe that every person makes an important contribution to everyone’s IT security. Therefore, we want to start with the human factor and thus together make our digital society and economy secure.
For a safe society and against fake news
IT-Seal supports „Journalismus macht Schule“
As an IT security company, we are committed to a sustainable security culture. We are not only active on behalf of our customers, but also want to help society as a whole to develop a culture of security.
That’s why we support the “Journalismus macht Schule” (JMS) project, which raises young people’s awareness of fake news and other risks on the Internet: For every new customer acquired, we donate to the Verein zur Förderung von Informations- und Nachrichtenkompetenz e.V. (Association for the Promotion of Information and News Literacy), thus financing one awareness workshop for each school class.
You can find out more about “Journalismus macht Schule” at:Â https://journalismus-macht-schule.org/
Our Milestones
A summary of our history.
Launch Security Awareness Training at it-sa
Darmstadt, October 2022
Darmstadt, May 2022
Darmstadt, March 2022
Darmstadt, September 2021
Darmstadt, November 2020
Darmstadt, December 2019
Darmstadt, September 2019
Start Launch of Germany's first local cyber security campaign 'Stay alert, Darmstadt!'
Darmstadt, August 2019
Best Cybersecurity Start up 2018 - Winner of the award UP18@itsa
NĂĽrnberg, October 2018
Release of the Employee Security Index (ESI®) at CEBIT 2018 - the process is patent pending
Hannover, June 2018
2nd place as Awareness Security Initiative of the Year - Information Security Days 2018
Hannover, June 2018
Exhibition at Europe's largest IT security fair
NĂĽrnberg, October 2017
Free phishing simulation
Darmstadt, July 2017
Exhibition stand at IT & MEDIA Frankfurt
Frankfurt, February 2017
Official market entry at the it-sa, Nuremberg
NĂĽrnberg, October 2016
Top 10 Cyber Security Startup Europa
Wien, October 2016
Start of the beta phase at CeBIT 2016
Hannover, March 2016
Winner of the Europe-wide Social Engineering Award
BrĂĽssel, February 2016
Exist Founder's Scholarship
Darmstadt, April 2016
1st place Startup Weekend - Local
Darmstadt, October 2015
Master's thesis at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, December 2014
Why IT-Seal?
IT-Seal GmbH is regarded throughout Germany as one of the top addresses for sustainable security culture and innovative awareness technologies. But what sets us apart from other awareness campaign providers?
Target-ESI® and Awareness Engine
As much training as necessary, but as little as possible. Save working time and costs by avoiding unnecessary training of already sensitized employees.​
Full Service Communication
Including stakeholder communication for employees, works council, managers and data protection officers.
OSINT phishing at employee & company level
Proceeding like real attackers
Individual opt-out solutions
Allow employees to decide for themselves whether to participate in certain procedures.
Your added values through our unique selling points
IT-Seal is a technology leader and innovative driver in the field of security awareness. Our technology trains your employees to recognize and defend against cyber attacks.
Our patented ESI® – Employee Security Index is an industry-unique benchmark that continuously measures and compares employee security behavior across the enterprise and steers individual e-training needs.
Our Awareness Engine automatically rolls out the relevant learning content – individually tailored to the needs of your employees and groups.
Our Spear Phishing Engine uses a wide range of realistic and latest email phishing scenarios to prepare your employees as well as possible for sophisticated spear phishing attacks.
Register for the free demo now!
Get to know our Next-Gen Security Awareness Training at Hornetsecurity without obligation. Request your personal demo now for free and learn all about:
- Spear-Phishing-Simulation
- E-Learnings in the Security Hub
- Control Panel
Sounds good? Then take the free trial!
Register without obligation for our demo application:
- Spear phishing simulation
- Trial access to the Security Hub and all e-learnings
- Trial access to the Awareness Manager
