TeleTrusT, officially the IT Security Association (), is a German association for

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, based in

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. Founded in 1989, it is a German and international competence network for IT security, with the purpose of increasing trust in information technology and communication. Members come from related industries and research as well as from administration and consultancy. The association works as a partner of national and international organisations in the field. TeleTrusT is the largest competence network for IT security in Germany and Europe, organising meetings and conferences, and advising in actual IT security politics. The association assigns two signs of confidence, ''IT Security made in Germany'' (ITSMIG) and ''IT Security made in EU'' (ITSMIE).

History

The initiative for an organisation for IT security dates back to the mid-1980s, when Eckart Raubold, then director of the

Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung The Fraunhofer Society (german: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., lit=Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research) is a German research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany ...

(GMD) in Darmstadt, proposed an association for the standardisation of

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s, and trust centres for IT communications, especially

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a. The first draft for a statute dates to 26 January 1989, and an association was created at a meeting on 4 April 1989 at the GMD.Elektronische Kommunikation soll vor Mißbräuchen geschützt werden: Teletrust fördert Telecom-Sicherheit
(in German) ''Computerwoche'' 21 April 1989 The association was formally registered in Bonn on 16 June 1989 as TeleTrust Deutschland. The members of the board then were Raubold as chairman, Wolfgang Schröder, Dieter Weber and Franz Arnold. Members included the GMD, , DATEV, SCS, KryptoKom ( Norbert Pohlmann), TELES,

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and ORGA. A press release describes the purpose as "Promotion of reliable telecommucation technology in the economy, society and government at national and international level" ("Förderung verläßlicher Tele-Informationstechnik in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Staat auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene", with a focus on avoiding abuse of electronics data, developing an electronic signature, and participating in norms.TeleTrusT-Information: Mitglieder und Aktivitäten
(in German) teletrust.de/en 8 January 2019 The managing director (''Geschäftsführer'') was

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from 1992 until 2007, when he was succeeded by Günther Welsch. Holger Mühlbauer has been managing director from 2009. Norbert Pohlmann, a founding member and teaching at the Institut für Internet-Sicherheit of the , has been chairman of the board since 1989.

Membership

TeleTrusT is a member of the

European Telecommunications Standards Institute The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization in the field of Information and communications technology, information and communications. ETSI supports the developmen ...

(ETSI), the IT Security Coordination Office of the

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, and the CEN/CENELEC cyber security co-ordination group. It was a founding member of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO).Co-operation network / III. TeleTrusT´s further memberships and relations
TeleTrusT 2021

References

External links

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Geschäftsbericht 2019
(in German) teletrust.de 2019
TeleTrusT European Bridge CA
{{authority control International organisations based in Germany Information technology organisations based in Germany Organizations established in 1989 1989 establishments in West Germany