SECUCLOUD

The discussions on how to achieve a secure Internet have gathered steam in Germany following the disclosure of spying attacks by the NSA. Germany’s biggest Internet Service Provider, Deutsche Telekom AG, added grist to the mill through its announcement of plans, codenamed ‘Clean Pipe’, to establish a “secure national internet.” Secucloud, a Hamburg-based provider of security services, supports the Deutsche Telekom in its calls for better security, but sees the proposed solution as too limited in scope. “The underlying principle of secure VPN tunnels to tightly monitored, centrally maintained and trustworthy servers in the cloud is a good one,” says Dennis Monner, CEO of Secucloud . “Yet the major Internet Service Providers are ultimately aimed at expanding their own business with key accounts and large corporate customers. It’s crucial that consideration be given to the security of private Internet users as well.”

Deutsche Telekom’s ‘Clean Pipe’ programme aims at redirecting Internet data traffic to run solely on German data networks. This concept was criticised in the media as an attempt to force data traffic to run through Telekom’s own IT backbone, allowing it to sell its security services more effectively to large customers. “If a company can improve Internet security and earn money at the same time, then there’s nothing wrong with that,” Dennis Monner feels. “If however only large corporations will be able to afford this snoop-proof, virus-free network, then there is a problem.”

Secucloud is instead proposing to offer all Internet users high-end security protections. The Hamburg-based service provider is currently developing “SecuBox+ ” and supplemental security applications. SecuBox+ is intended to replace the home wireless router and channel the Internet connection for all devices via a secure VPN tunnel to Secucloud’s German servers. The high-end security system will filter out Trojans, spyware, viruses and other malicious software. Secucloud would offer the service for a monthly flatrate of around 10 euros for private customers and roughly 40 euros for small businesses.

Secucloud recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Seedmatch platform. It raised 500,000 euros in capital in just 34 hours, setting a European funding record for companies in the seed phase. “The extraordinarily successful funding round shows that the issue of security during Internet usage is one that moves people — and that Secucloud is on the right path,” Monner says.

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Secucloud Network GmbH
Aleksander Groshev
Phone: +49 180 5 015 437
Email: aleksander.groshev@secucloud.com

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