
CYSEC SA Secures 500'000 Swiss Francs for its Cybersecurity Solutions
CYSEC is a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium to which it expects to contribute with leadership and significant value through its cybersecurity expertise and experience.
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CIO Applications Europe | Monday, July 20, 2020

CYSEC is a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium to which it expects to contribute with leadership and significant value through its cybersecurity expertise and experience
FREMONT, CA: The startup based at EPFL Innovation Park provides a highly innovative solution for the growing Confidential Computing domain. CYSEC received a Tech Growth loan of 500’000 Swiss francs from the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT). This follows a second full year of strong sales growth.
CYSEC SA has developed a highly innovative cybersecurity risk mitigation solution that aims at making cybersecurity available to all organizations. With the acceleration of the digital transformation, more and more organizations are deploying critical applications containing sensitive data, which need to be protected by implementing a range of security tools and components. Existing solutions are complex to manage, show very little flexibility, and remain subject to numerous security weaknesses.
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Led by Patrick Trinkler as CEO, YacineFelk as COO, AlexandreKarlov as CTO, and a highly talented team, CYSEC already obtained a FIT Tech Seed loan in 2018. “We are honoured that FIT has shown its confidence in our company, its innovative technology and future growth plans by granting us this new loan.”, explains Patrick Trinkler.
To facilitate the digital transformation without compromising security, CYSEC has developed a versatile and highly scalable security solution called ARCA, which stores sensitive data and runs critical software in a trusted environment. ARCA provides a whole new level of flexibility and agility and enables to quickly deploy applications in a secured environment, offering organizations an innovative, easy-to-install, and cost-effective way to adapt to changing security and business requirements.
By integrating state-of-the-art certified security hardware, ARCA guarantees the secure hosting of sensitive applications. On the software side, CYSEC’s product allows to securely manage access keys, provide encryption and decryption functionalities, as well as digital signatures and other robust authentication services relying on state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithms.
CYSEC has, among others, partnered with industry leaders, including METACO, a provider of secure infrastructures for digital assets, Astrocast, a global satellite IoT network provider, Geosatis, a unique IoT devices provider for critical infrastructure and Build38, a leader in the security of mobile applications. This year, CYSEC has also won a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to protect ship tracking communications against cyber threats.
In addition to registered patents, the technological value of CYSEC is also recognized by various academic and industrial collaborations through the Innosuisse, EUREKA / EUROSTARS, and H2020 programs. The start-up has also been selected to participate in the ESA BIC incubation program, which is among the winners of the start-ups IMD competition and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Innovation Challenges.
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