About us

Securepoint GmbH, from the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg, is the market leader in the development of professional “Unified Threat Management” solutions in Germany. As the largest German manufacturer of these solutions, Securepoint also offers high-quality protection in the cloud area through “Security as a Service”. The portfolio is completed by email archiving, access protection for networks, simple management of secure WLAN connections (BYOD) and a management system for all of our solutions.
The latest product is a comprehensive anti-virus suite including cloud management.

Constant technical advancement of hardware and software and expert assistance provided by the manufacturer support from head office mean that high levels of customer satisfaction can be achieved. This has seen many long-term customer relationships develop and prosper over the years.

Securepoint, as an owner-managed company in the German mid-tier sector, leads the way in its market segment. Since its inception in 1997, company growth has increased steadily and this has been based on profits earned; free from outside capital.

Management at Securepoint GmbH has great experience in the systems house business and knows the requirements and duties that their retail partners have to face on a daily basis very well. Securepoint strives to create solutions that are useful, functional and free of any backdoors. All employees are committed to these corporate principles and show a professional attitude in their willingness to assist.

Securepoint meets its entrepreneurial and social responsibilities by treating its employees as partners and by fostering young talent in their technical and business careers.

Securepoint offers you the full set of secure IT security products. Here you find the Securepoint Unified Security in brief overview in the form of a brochure.

• Securepoint is an owner-managed company
• Bank/credit reform ratings: Securepoint has an A bank/credit rating
• Awards: Softshell Vendor Score 9.41 (2017), Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award 2012 and 2013
• About 130 employees – including 14 TÜV certified data protection officers
• Development and distribution of network security, Antivirus-Suite, WLAN management and email archiving products
• OEM manufacturers of Wortmann TERRA VPN/UTM products
• Strategic partnership with Wortmann
• Head office in Lüneburg near Hamburg
• Subsidiaries in Potsdam, Velbert/Düsseldorf and Stuttgart

1. EXPERIENCE:
   Securepoint has been successful in the business of security product development for over 10 years and has vast knowledge in the IT security area. We provide our partners with this expertise.
2. FINANCIAL STRENGTH:
   As one of very few companies in this industry, Securepoint is on a secure self-financing footing, generates profits and enjoys complete independence from external investment.
3. RESPONSIBILITY:
   We speak your language. Almost all of Securepoint employees work in Germany and over 50% have been educated in universities or technical colleges. With a training rate of around 10%, we have also been supporting our young professionals for many years.
4. PRODUCTS:
   Securepoint develops highly efficient IT security products that have been in use successfully for many years and are well established in the market. We offer customers comprehensive company protection.
5. QUALITY:
   Our on-site development and hardware production in Germany give us complete control over our business processes and products and also allow us to cater for customers’ individual requests.
6. FLEXIBILITY:
   We assist our retail partners and systems houses using our know-how with small to large, complex projects. This enables our partners to reach their objectives quickly and successfully.
7. SERVICE/SUPPORT:
   Our very own service centre in Germany supports all retail partners and systems houses expertly in the German-speaking regions. We provide help with consultation, training, concept development, tendering support and project implementation.
8. SPEED:
   We are usually able to help our partners within minutes in support cases. Our support is free of charge for partners and has been a figurehead of our company for years. Unbureaucratic support and project assistance are a given here.
9. DISTRIBUTION STRUCTURE:
   Securepoint works indirectly via distributors, specialist retailers and systems houses. Unlike many competitors, Securepoint does not carry out any direct projects. We work on security projects together with our partners and forward any customer queries to them.
10. TRAINING:
    We offer our partners extensive technical and sales training.
11. MOST IMPORTANT...
    ... to us are our partners and their customers. You can be sure about that!

Securepoint is a member of the German IT security association TeleTrusT. The Securepoint solutions for network security, WLAN management and email archiving have the quality mark "IT-Security made in Germany". Securepoint, with its expertise and its products, meets all of the important criteria required:

• Head office for research and development is based exclusively in Germany
• Guarantee of reliable security solutions
• Commitment to preventing any hidden accesses for third parties (no backdoors)
• Promise to comply with the German data protection law

This quality mark gives Securepoint partners and customers the assurance required to choose IT security products that are subject to the strict German data protection guidelines. The quality mark "IT-Security made in Germany" (ITSMIG) has been in existence since 2005 and was initiated by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, together with representatives of the German IT security industry. TeleTrusT has since taken over responsibility for all activities and leads the working group, ITSMIG, for this independently.

TeleTrusT Certificate (PDF)

EU DS-GVO ready (EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION):
without backdoors 

Securepoint GmbH guarantees to fully comply with Section 2.4 of the supplementary terms and conditions for the purchase of IT products (EVB-IT Purchase Conditions - Version 2.0 from 03.17.2016):

Securepoint provides IT products free of malware (viruses, worms, trojan horses), for example in boxed drivers or firmware. Securepoint also ensures, that the products to be shipped are free of functionality, which compromises or threatens the integrity, confidentiality and availability of hardware, other hardware and/or software or data and thereby damaging the confidentiality or security interests of the client by

• functions for unwanted sending/extraction of data,
• functions for undesired changes/manipulation of data or the process logic or
• functions for unwanted reading of data or unwanted feature enhancements.

It is Securepoint's commitment, to ensure that the delivered products do not include any hidden access identifiers and -mechanisms, which will allow third parties a controlled access or disabling of security-related functions. An intentional weakening of encryption methods (eg. by wilfully shortened keys, incorrectly implemented encryption algorithms, weakened random generators, concealed master keys or information concealed in data streams which simplify encryption) is not used in Securepoint's products.

Backdoors? Not with us!
Founded in 1997, the Securepoint GmbH literally lives the "No backdoors" idea. Thanks to the in-house development, we can guarantee that our IT products are developed free of backdoors. We protect our customers and adhere to the backdoor liberty clause (also called "technical no-Spy clause").

No Backdoors Prospekt - German (PDF)

„We at Securepoint GmbH guarantee, that all our IT products are developed free of backdoors.”

Lutz Hausmann, Managing Director (CEO)

The alliance for cyber security is an initiative from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that was founded in cooperation with the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM).

As a consortium of all of the important actors in the area of cyber security in Germany, the goal of the alliance is to increase cyber security in Germany and to strengthen the resistance of Germany as a location against cyber attacks. To this end, the alliance for cyber security is building an extensive knowledge base and supports the exchange of information and experience.

Securepoint GmbH was awarded the silver medal in the category ”VPN - Virtual Private Network” for the Security-Insider “Reader’s Choice Award” in 2015 and 2016.

Readers of the different insider portals were asked in a widespread survey to choose the best provider or manufacturer. Within several weeks, a considerable number of votes were cast on the various categories and distributed to the insider portals.

Companies that had made a particularly positive impression in the recent past managed to make it on to the editorial shortlist - whether as a result of groundbreaking new technologies, outstanding products and concepts or forward-looking strategies.

Award 2015 (PDF)

The world-renowned auditing company Deloitte honours Germany’s fastest growing technology companies every year. Securepoint was awarded the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award in both 2012 and 2013.

We all have something that drives us: Securepoint makes an appearance in the image report of the Volksbank Nordheide eG and Volksbank Lüneburger Heide eG...

This project was supported with funds from the Brandenburg Ministry for Economic Affairs and the EU. The author is responsible for the content of the publication.

Securepoint is closely connected to the Linux community. Securepoint software can be found in almost every Linux kernel. Click on the link Securepoint Linux Sources to find the Linux source codes of Securepoint systems that are used. Securepoint supports the OpenVPN association and is a corporate member. The Securepoint OpenVPN Client is a VPN-Client developed by Securepoint that you are welcome to use free of charge. If you have any questions about this, please contact us!