Comforte AG Announces New Partnership with ITKaa

Wiesbaden, Germany - 22 July 2021 - ITKaa and comforte are teaming up to help clients secure their business from the inside out by leveraging comforte's leading edge technology for systematically discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data, and ITKaa's long-standing role in the software security industry.

With the ever-increasing ubiquity and sensitivity of traded information, data-centric strategies have become an essential ingredient for businesses hoping to stay in business and deflect the relentless onslaught of cyberattacks which have only intensified in recent years and especially during the global COVID-19 crisis.

Building upon years of experience in secure software development and consulting, ITKaa offer a unique perspective to bridging the gap between business, security and development stakeholders, enabling businesses to discover and define their data-related risk, construct appropriate data classification and handling policies and ultimately enforce the necessary measures to realize the organization's ultimate goal of doing business in a safe and secure manner.

Joining forces, ITKaa and comforte bring to customers an unparalleled combination of in-depth domain-knowledge and top-of-the-line data classification and encryption technologies to aid businesses in navigating the ever-shifting threat and compliance landscapes.

Michael Deissner, CEO at comforte AG commented, “our mission at comforte is to help organizations protect and manage the sensitive data with which they have been entrusted. We are very pleased to announce our partnership with ITKaa’s dedicated team of data security experts so we can work together towards this common goal and ensure growth, confidence, and security in the digital economy.”

Kaveh Goudarzi, Director of ITKaa, added, "the Comforte suite of products is an important and timely addition to the arsenal of defenses needed by the industry to combat cybercrime. We are convinced that the data-centric approach to security using Comforte's scalable technology is the best way forward for businesses to rapidly assess, classify and protect critical data."

About ITKaa

ITKaa is a software security firm bringing security expertise to SME's and Enterprise customers in a wide range of industry sectors such as finance, online publishing, insurance, and telecom.

ITKaa's key focus is on helping companies take phased steps towards securing their software solutions, whether home-grown or acquired. ITKaa offers a range of solutions that address the security of software from inception, through design, construction and verification and the eventual transition into Operations, thereby achieving DevSecOps from end-to-end.

With a rich background in secure software development and direct relationships with the top innovating software security firms, ITKaa brings a wealth of experience to customers, helping them tailor their processes through the introduction of state-of-the-art solutions that scale and sweep across the organisation to establish business-application-aware security controls.

About comforte AG

Comforte was founded in 1998 by the creators of a connectivity solution for mission-critical systems. A logical next step for comforte was not only to connect systems but also to make sure that communication is always done in a secure fashion. Organizations around the globe are running their ATM and Point-of-Sale networks securely, thanks to comforte.

Building on more than 20 years of experience in unlocking more value from systems that never stop, comforte has evolved into a market leader for data security and cloud-native tokenization and proudly serves over 500 enterprise customers across the globe.