Products, partners
and network

The Alliance for Cyber Security is an initiative of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), which in cooperation with the Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V. (German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media). (BITKOM) was founded.

As an association of all important players in the field of cyber security in Germany, the Alliance aims to provide up-to-date and valid information across the board.

As a member of the Alliance, we have access to current situation information (e.g. from security service providers), BSI cyber security warnings and other non-public information and offers. This ensures that we and our customers have early access to all security-relevant information and work for your and our security.

ADN, as an example for many of our partners/suppliers, provides technically outstanding products in the areas of Cloud & Virtualization, Network & Security, Storage Solutions and Unified Communication, including products from Citrix, Proofpoint, DELL/EMC, Igel, watchguard and SONICWALL. The ADN AKADEMIE is available for employees as well as customer training and the technical service with a direct line to the manufacturers helps us to fall back on the know-how of the manufacturers for special technical questions.

We are a member of the network nrw.uniTS, the association of companies, research institutions and universities for IT security in NRW. The cooperation between university and industry guarantees the combination of application-oriented top-level research with action-oriented entrepreneurial spirit. More than 130 members are also committed to sensitizing other industries and areas to the very important topic of IT security.

Through the network we work together with renowned institutes such as the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security in Bochum and the Institute for Internet Security - if(is) - of the Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen.

As an F-Secure partner, we use the outstanding solutions for endpoint protection, vulnerability management and advanced threat protection. In addition, the Messaging Security Gateway solution from the technological market leader Proofpoint is available to us to ward off SPAM, viruses and attacks that target companies via individualized emails.

We use a portfolio of different technologies and manufacturers for comprehensive and secure protection of corporate data and IT infrastructure, including G Data's solutions tested by Stiftung Warentest with "Gut". As partners we have access to exclusive training courses and direct contact to the experts of the G DATA SecurityLab due to the proximity to the manufacturer in Bochum.

Data Protection and Data Security are indispensable components of a company's IT, not only since the introduction of the basic data protection regulation for the protection of personal data. We are committed to sensible, justifiable and technically feasible data protection. As a member of the association founded in 1977, we benefit from the GDD's technical and legal expertise, training courses and congresses and participate in the exchange of information in the Essen and Dortmund regional groups.

The association for computer science (GI) is with approximately 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members the largest and most important professional association for computer science in the German-speaking area. It has represented the interests of computer scientists in science, business, public administration, society and politics since 1969 and is a leader in the discussion and development of computer science in Germany.

As a company, we have been a member since 2006 and benefit from the exchange between research, science and companies.

As an Authorized Reseller, we use servers and network components from one of the leading manufacturers in the DELL EMC Partner Program.

We are HP Business Partner and provide our customers with workstations, printer solutions, notebooks and monitors as needed. For servers and network infrastructure we use servers, switches from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, etc

Perhaps one of the most important, long-standing partnerships connects us to Microsoft. We use Microsoft SQL Server as application and database server for our software products and use the wide range of Microsoft Server products for the IT infrastructure as well as Microsoft Sharepoint for information management and collaboration.

Office365 combines the best solutions for the modern working world - on the desktop and in the cloud.

Microsoft Azure is a highly innovative, fast-growing cloud-based solution and Microsoft Power BI is the leading technology solution for analysis and reporting according to the Gartner Report 2018. In 2018 we have reached the highest partner level and are Microsoft Gold Partner in the competence Application Development.

Norlan GmbH focuses on the system integration of Auto-ID applications for operative and dispositive warehouse and transport logistics. Norlan also offers specialist services such as radio surveying and WiFi illumination of warehouses even in difficult environments and is a supplier of various scanner technologies and barcode types.

Norlan relies on our expertise and software products for the applications used.

If a direct fiber optic connection is not an option for fast Internet at one location for technical or economic reasons, the well-developed cable network offers an extremely attractive alternative. As Unitymedia's business partner, we offer business customers communication solutions tailored to their needs, depending on the size of the company. Depending on the size of the company and the associated telecommunications requirements, various business offers are available. Unitymedia's state-of-the-art COAX fiber optic network offers unlimited broadband access. Even where there is no cable connection in the house today, it may be available. We have access to UnityMedia's expansion plans or can provide an individual connection if a cable connection is in the vicinity of your location.

The Federal Office for Information Security is part of the business area of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and is the first point of contact for questions on IT security in the information society. The aim of the technical guidelines of the BSI is to disseminate an appropriate safety standard. BSI-Standards are an elementary component of the basic IT protection methodology. They contain recommendations on methods, processes and procedures as well as procedures and measures on various aspects of information security. Users from public authorities and companies as well as manufacturers or service providers can use the BSI standards to make their business processes and data more secure.

In all our business areas consulting, IT management and in our software solutions, we orientate ourselves on the BSI standards or the recommendations of the international standard ISO/IEC 27001, which specifies the requirements for setting up, implementing, maintaining and continuously improving a documented information security management system, taking into account the context of an organization, depending on the requirements of the customer.

Our offer zubIT-SecurityScan is based on the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS), for which the BSI has developed various functions of the OpenVAS framework and contributed numerous vulnerability check routines (NVTs). OpenVAS is used by the BSI and many authorities.

To ensure permanent, uninterrupted IT operations, a comprehensive monitoring solution is necessary that informs immediately about problems in the IT infrastructure and points out possible problems at an early stage - preferably even before a failure - so that these can best be resolved before a failure occurs.

To ensure permanent, uninterrupted IT operations, a comprehensive monitoring solution is necessary that informs immediately about problems in the IT infrastructure and points out possible problems at an early stage - preferably even before a failure - so that these can best be resolved before a failure occurs.

As a basic system we use the Check_MK solution developed by Mathias Kettner GmbH, which is based on the NAGIOS and Incinga systems.

OpenVAS is a framework for vulnerability analysis, as it is used in companies and authorities as part of security management to secure their own IT infrastructure, to be notified early on of vulnerabilities and to protect them from exploitation by an attacker. An automated vulnerability analysis is a necessary part of a security event and information system (SIEM).

Our zubIT-SecurityScan is based on the Open Vulnerability Assessment System of OpenVAS.

Virtualization is an important feature to ensure the maintainability and availability of the IT infrastructure. Virtualization increases the agility, flexibility and scalability of IT and enables significant cost savings.

IT components are easier to manage and cheaper to run because workloads can be deployed faster, performance and availability are optimized, and operations are automated. Further advantages:

• Reduced investment and operating costs
• Minimum to no downtime
• Increased IT productivity, efficiency, agility and responsiveness
• Faster and easier application deployment
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Simpler management

zubIT, as Solution Provider Professional, use the products of VMWARE.

Veeam offers superior products and backup solutions to ensure data security and rapid recovery in the event of a failure or virus/malware infection.

Especially in cases like the encryption Trojan (wannaCry) and other Ransomware attacks, full backup is often the only way to recover company data. Veeam technology reduces downtime/recovery time and minimizes damage to the business.

We help in the conception and securing of a backup concept for the company data and rely on Veeam products as a Pro Partner.

We rely on the German manufacturer SWYX for IP-based communication - as does Deutsche Telekom with its product Octopus NetPhone.

The Swyx solution is not just a telephone system, but intelligent corporate communication that combines communications and collaboration in real time, accelerates processes, clearly displays contact with customers and colleagues in just one user interface and adapts to your company.

The advantage of the purely software-based solution is its flexibility and adaptability, especially with regard to rule-based handling of calls. Call routing management allows you to develop completely new, individual scenarios in which your customers always reach the right available contact quickly.

Added to this is the database-based evaluation capability, which enables a complete analysis of customer call acceptance.

As a software and consulting company, we are involved in the network of the plastics industry in North Rhine-Westphalia promoted by the state of NRW and the European Union.

The main focus of our interest is the exchange of information within the network, whereby the topics innovation, industry 4.0 and work 4.0 were the topics we were most concerned with under the generic term of digital transformation. However, this also includes the question of how existing knowledge in the company can be used further/better, which is also a building block for improving processes and combating the shortage of skilled workers.

After winning the German government's top cluster competition in 2010, EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr has established itself as Europe's largest research and innovation cluster in logistics and successfully created structures for sustainable innovation management in the high-tech logistics sector.

In the years 2012 to 2015, software was developed as a partner in the projects "Organizational innovations with good governance in logistics networks" and "Dynamic consolidation" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in cooperation with universities and industrial companies. This has resulted in tools for cloudbased and knowledge-based work that are now part of our software products.

The network and contact to universities and institutes continues to consist in the exchange of knowledge and the transfer of research results into the company and its products

Dialogistik Duisburg networks companies in the Port of Duisburg - with experts from the fields of education and training, sustainability and innovative logistics solutions.

The institutionalization of dialogistics is driven by the University of Duisburg-Essen, which has a high level of interdisciplinary expertise in the field of logistics and strong corporate partners, such as the duisport Group, with whom practical dialogues are initiated and thus the future of logistics is to be economically strengthened at both municipal and state level.

We have been represented on the Executive Board of DIALOGistik Duisburg since 2016.

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As a software manufacturer of ERP, materials management and sales information solutions for the plastics industry and compounding, we are represented at FAKUMA in Friedrichshafen as exhibitors. You will find us at the joint stand of the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs in Hall B4.

FAKUMA takes place every year, except in the years when the K-fair takes place in Düsseldorf.

The world's leading trade fair for plastics and rubber Every three years, the plastics and rubber industry gathers in Düsseldorf for the K-fair. K-Messe is the world's leading trade fair for these sectors. The last time this took place was in 2016.

As an "in-house exhibition" in NRW and as a software manufacturer of ERP, materials management and sales information solutions for the plastics industry as well as compounding, we are represented as exhibitors at the joint state stand of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The K-fair takes place every three years. Next time from 16 to 23 October 2019.

Our activities are also based on education, growth and social well-being in our region, the northern edge of the Ruhr area/Emscher-Lippe, in the sign of globalisation and permanent technological change.

This is where we, our families and employees live. This requires economic growth, a good infrastructure and the creation of jobs with a wide variety of qualifications, not only in the service and trade sectors, but especially in industry.

As an IT company, we are also interested in questions of technology transfer between universities and industry, cluster and funding policy and the topics related to occupational safety and security in times of increasing globalization and digitization (Industry 4.0 / Work of Tomorrow).

For the cooperation and the exchange with the local parties we are a member of the “IHK Regionalkreis für den Kreis Recklinghausen”. Together with the regional districts of Gelsenkirchen and Bottop, this forms the “Vestischer Regionalkreis” for the Emscher-Lippe region. The employers' association RUHR-LIPPE is a cross-sector, general employers' association (professional association). More than 100 members from the district of Recklinghausen as well as Bottrop, Herne, Bochum, Witten and Hattingen include companies from industry, trade and services as well as legal entities and institutions in various sectors. We use the exchange of information between members on labour policy and economic issues and have been a voluntary member since 2018. In addition, the employers' association offers a wide range of seminars, company and personal further training opportunities, which are available to us and our employees.

The employers' association RUHR-LIPPE is a cross-sector, general employers' association (professional association). More than 100 members from the district of Recklinghausen as well as Bottrop, Herne, Bochum, Witten and Hattingen include companies from industry, trade and services as well as legal entities and institutions in various sectors.

We use the exchange of information between members on labour policy and economic issues and have been a voluntary member since 2018.

In addition, the employers' association offers a wide range of seminars, company and personal further training opportunities, which are available to us and our employees.

zebra technologies offer outstanding, integrated solutions for digitization and industry 4.0 (software, printers, mobile computers, scanners, RFID and accessories) for the healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transport and logistics industries. As a registered independent software developer (ISV) and partner, we successfully use these technologies in our solutions.

We use Honeywell scanners and mobile devices in our solutions, not only in zubIT-DamageLog - our solution for mobile damage recording in warehouses. See also the field report "Ich möchte es mehr mehr missen" by Deutschen Transport Compagnie - DTC

Honeywell - listed as a Fortune 100 company - develops smart solutions to improve productivity and security (including printers, scanners, software and mobile data collection devices)

CipherLab is an innovative manufacturer of mobile computers, barcode scanners, RFID products and software for warehousing, trade, transport and logistics. With the discontinuation of the Windows CE operating system used on many scanners, new, smart devices with a current operating system are required. CipherLabs offers these based on Android, so that the various possibilities of modern applications, as we know them from our smartphones today, are combined with smart and robust barcode scanners in one product. This also offers new opportunities for us as software manufacturers.

Kofax is a leading provider of software and solutions for the automation and digitization of personnel- and information-intensive processes in front and back office.

Kofax Express™ is a powerful, easy-to-use, batch-oriented, all-in-one document scanning application designed for high-speed scanning with real-time image rendering, indexing and barcode recognition.

We use KOFAX Express both integrated in our products and as an add-on for accelerating and automating business processes. Kofax Express can export captured images and data to a variety of back-end systems, including Microsoft SharePoint and Kofax Capture.