Primarily governmental authorities and energy suppliers place great emphasis on extremely safe such as those provided by the spin-off “Kernkonzept.” Kernkonzept has developed the L4Re system, an open source operating system / hypervisor for applications with special safety requirements.

Securing companies' sensitive information is the mission of comcrypto GmbH from Chemnitz: they offer software that encrypts e-mail traffic to make it tap-proof.

The Leipzig-based specialists at Rhebo GmbH have developed a protection system that learns the communication patterns in industrial control networks fully automatically. If the software then detects unusual activity in the network, it sounds the alarm in good time before attackers can infiltrate.