History

In November, we presented our new emergency communication solution ECS (Emergency Communication System) for the first time at KommDIGITALE in Bielefeld. Using various communication channels, including email, SMS and fax, users are able to stay in touch even in the event of IT system failures, completely independently of their own company infrastructure. The full market launch is planned for 2025.

At it-sa, we presented the first prototype of the digiBADGE. An intelligent ID card that serves both as a classic photo ID and for digital authentication. In combination with SmartLogon™, the integrated YubiKey enables multi-factor authentication, which ensures secure digital ID control on the operating system. Together with photo verification, this improves corporate security on several levels. The digiBADGE has been registered as a utility model at the German Patent and Trademark Office under the number 20 2024 106070 since December 20, 2024.

The migration of the latest version for formal communication, WinTelex EP5, began in 2023. In addition to a modern look and practical, user-friendly interface, it also offers a large number of interfaces to other official programs. Thanks to the largely training-free migration with immediate application, the completely new development is also impressive in practice: a police authority commissioned the innovative system for five years in July and has thus remained loyal to our solution, now in its third generation, for over 25 years.

The appointment of Alexander Woeschka as Managing Director marks the start of a new phase for digitronic. This is reflected, among other things, in the growth in personnel as early as 2024:

Over the course of the year, a total of five new employees were welcomed to the digitronic team: Binal Nasit, Jannatul Fardouse, Nico Kunz, Andreas Stoff and Morten Deutsch support the company in various positions. While Andreas Stoff and Morten Deutsch support our new and existing customers as IT consultants, Binal Nasit, Jannatul Fardouse and Nico Kunz strengthen our development team.

With its card readers, REINER SCT has been a good partner for our SmartLogon™ authentication solution for many years. For 2024, this partnership was further intensified with the order development for the new login solution “REINER SCT Login” using a one-time password (TOTP).

In February, the digitronic team received double reinforcement: Alexander Woeschka and Alexandra Weinhold joined the company to support sales. As the new sales manager, Alexander Woeschka introduced an additional model that makes it possible to conveniently subscribe to the various security products without long terms.

In April, digitronic also gained a new marketing representative in Wilma Keck.

In order to continue to meet the high quality standards that digitronic sets itself, the unified messaging software received an update in October.

In addition to on-premise infrastructures, hybrid or cloud infrastructures are also supported (e.g. Microsoft 365). Modern technologies and the consistent use of standardized interfaces ensure maximum flexibility and security.

The new EPOST810.1-compatible WinTelex is proving itself in continuous operation in the first offices. The new version focuses primarily on interaction with external systems. Thus digitronic heralds the future of communication software. With a new logo and innovative look, the system is proving itself in use!

Initially only intended for simple processes on kiosk PCs, various projects this year placed more and more demands on the Application Impersonator. Due to the increasing configuration effort, the decision to develop a new or further version was obvious, so that the tasks could be implemented better and faster. A new name was also chosen as a result: AppRunner. Our customers receive a lean single sign-on solution that extends the simplicity of SmartLogon to logins to applications, combining convenience and security.

Our software for strong 2-factor authentication supports a wide range of different security tokens. Since this year, the YubiKey 5 from the company Yubico also complements the portfolio of supported tokens. Thus digitronic takes a step towards “passwordless authentication”, but as usual without requiring a PKI or certificates.

The highlight: Secure logon via this method works in both local and domain accounts without any server extension or network availability.

The first prototype of our new WinTelex version emerges from the concept creation: Optimized for desktop and mobile devices. A later control via apps is planned.

Stop password jungle and card clutter: SmartToken is an app for your smartphone that provides you with virtual security tokens for secure authentication to the operating system or specialist applications. In combination with the 2-factor authentication solution SmartLogon™, secure and simple authentication is possible without any additional hardware. The new app is now available for free download from the App Store and Google Play Store.

December is a very special month for us this year: Not only the excitement of Christmas makes our hearts beat faster, but also the fact that digitronic has been your contact for secure communication solutions and IT security for more than 30 years now. For 30 years, we have been passionate about developing IT solutions to make our customers’ everyday working lives a bit safer and more convenient.

We say THANK YOU for the trust you have placed in us so far, for inspiring and forward-looking discussions and challenging development projects. We are excited about what the next 30 years have in store for us and look forward to everything that is to come.

WinTelex EP – our solution for formal and secure communication in the official environment – is to receive a graphical and functional general overhaul. In close cooperation with the customers, the concept development is going on with a lot of momentum. The goal: Convenient but secure access to government systems in a self-explanatory look & feel.

Our encryption solution HiCrypt™ Enterprise Services has won the 2020 DCS Award in the ICT Security Product of the Year category. The DCS Award recognizes the achievements of vendors and their business partners alike, and this year includes a broader range of categories for both infrastructure and information technology, designed to cover all major areas of the data center market in Europe.

Due to the continuous development of the range of functions and usability, we have decided to rename our proven authentication solution Secure Logon™ 2.0 to SmartLogon™. Above all, the name reflects the innumerable possibilities offered by the integration of the SmartToken (i.e. registration via smartphone).

New and created for greatness: Based on our proven encryption solution HiCrypt™ 2.0 (now HiCrypt™ Professional), HiCrypt™ Enterprise Services now complements the HiCrypt™ family. Significant improvements in terms of user administration and centralized management of encrypted shares are just some of the advantages of the encryption solution. Larger IT infrastructures in particular benefit from the innovations and managed confidentiality. From now on, users can decide which HiCrypt™ is the right one for them.

Delivering messages across national borders, within urgently defined deadlines with “guaranteed receipt” is a cornerstone of police tactical leadership. digitronic proves itself to be a continuous development and operating partner that assumes overall responsibility for a police procedure from a single source. With the implementation of the “Georedundancy” project, the risk of failure of the formal communication system EPOST810 has been significantly reduced over the last few years. digitronic is also facing up to the rapid pace of development of software technologies in 2018 and will meet future user requirements in a practical manner.

Healthcare institutions classified under CRITIS must act by June 2019. From May 2018, the European Data Protection Basic Regulation (EU DSGVO) will also come into force. In order to comply with data protection and professional regulations, the requirements for IT security are also increasing in the healthcare sector. With our all-in-one security packages, we are helping hospitals and other medical facilities to better meet legal requirements. The technical basis of the packages is the award-winning, team-capable encryption of data on network drives HiCrypt™ 2.0 and the 2-factor authentication Secure Logon™ 2.0.

Contrary to various forecasts, the EMS service “fax” is still an important part of corporate and government communication. In the midst of the conversion from ISDN to VoIP, digitronic’s unified messaging technology has proven itself for the provision of the services Fax/VoiceMail and SMS. Large computer centers, industry and public authorities are using the increased service competence and commission digitronic, for example, to provide nationwide end users with an alternative delivery in the form of mass “Print over IP delivery”. In 2018, digitronic will be used by major customers for the first time.

For the 19th time already, groundbreaking ideas and inventions of Saxon companies are honored with the Saxon State Prize for Innovation. digitronic was among the 10 best with Secure Logon™ 2.0 (2-factor authentication). Our innovation combines “possession” and “knowledge” to a secure and user-friendly solution. The possession of a “security key” that cannot be forged – such as a key fob, smart card or now the “prepared smartphone” and the knowledge of a PIN lead to a significant increase in security while simplifying the use at the same time.

August 2016 saw the release of UMS 7.2, our unified messaging solution that has been successfully established on the market since 1999. With digitronic UMS the services fax, voice mail and SMS are integrated into any e-mail environment. The highest level of comfort is offered without the need for additional client software. Special emphasis is placed on the increased requirements of our customers for legal security and verification. The new, extended functions include Support of multifunction printers, Qualified Fax Transmission Report, Qualified Fax Reception Report, PIN complexity monitoring in VoiceAccess and extended Outlook support.

In order to implement data protection requirements, for example in the areas of the board of directors, management, personnel administration, works council, research, medical expert service and patent system, digitronic now offers the following complete packages: The digitronic All-In-One Compliance Packages include data encryption, 2-factor authentication, the necessary hardware keys as well as roll-out support at your site. This way you save costs & time and save resources of your administrators or IT service providers. With our hundred times successfully practiced support we deliver a missing piece of the puzzle to pass the audit according to ISO 27001.

With the new development of Secure Logon™ 2.0 and the market release, instead of complex passwords, a PIN can be securely stored on a digitronic security token to authenticate on a PC, a network drive or a remote desktop connection (RDP). This leads to a considerable saving of time and consequently also costs. As a “comfort firecracker” for administrators, both the storage and the forwarding of several identities to remote environments via CRED-UI is possible without additionally installing Secure Logon™ 2.0 on the target systems.

MyCappTM is an app that shifts digital confidentiality into a logical, device-independent layer. The solution can be extended in its functionality by companies themselves and thus reconciles the business use of private end devices with the data protection guidelines of companies.

With HiCrypt™ 2.0 as its successor product, the encryption software HiCrypt™, which will be successfully launched on the market in 2012, digitronic consistently meets the demand for even more protection of confidential and secret data. By means of USB smartcard tokens HiCrypt™ 2.0 supports the 2-factor authentication (knowledge and possession). This means that scenarios can now also be implemented in which access to the protected data is only possible exclusively with a token and a suitable PIN.

HiCrypt™ and Secure Logon meet the requirements for 2-factor authentication and encryption that automotive manufacturers require of their suppliers. A HiCrypt™ floating version is also available.

Unified Messaging System 7.x sets standards as a multi-client capable cloud solution for cost savings. The direct Outlook integration with qualified transmission report replaces maintenance-intensive device technology at each workstation.

HiCrypt™ replaces the product Crypted Group Share and sets new standards in security and comfort as encryption software for everyone.

With the takeover of the UMS THOR, digitronic secures the continued use of established unified messaging systems for secure communication for long-standing customers.

Steffen Ranft, co-founder and long-time manager in the company, becomes managing director for the development division.

The pKommBox, a preconfigured server with which the police service regulation for formal communication is implemented, is launched on the market.

Crypted Group Share, Extended Device Blocker and the Token Management System extend the portfolio of the Authention Suite, the various modules are thus combined to form a comprehensive digitronic Security Suite.

digitronic develops Secure Logon for the comfortable logon to PCs with badges and develops a concept for the multifunctional workstation of the police of a federal state.

The first own product WinTelex is developed, laying the foundation for future unified messaging developments. WinTelex enables Windows workstations in many police and civil protection services and is established as a telex replacement system in many federal states. In the same year the sales and support company digitronic Berlin is founded for SuperFax and WinTelex.

Matthias Kirchhoff and Steffen Ranft are enthusiastic about Martens’ innovative technology and thus about the founding of digitronic Chemnitz GmbH – the project starts with a handshake at CeBIT.

Claus Martens founds digitronic computersysteme GmbH near Hamburg, which specializes in microcomputers, control technology and communication for telex and fax exchanges.