IT Security made in EU

On the occasion of the German EU Council Presidency 2020 and against the background of the debate on European digital sovereignty, TeleTrusT established the optional labelling option "IT Security made in EU" for products and services of its members. This TeleTrusT labelling initiative complements the introduced TeleTrusT trust seal "IT Security made in Germany" and thus ties in with the demand to focus on "IT Security made in Germany" or "IT Security made in EU", e.g. in government tenders for IT infrastructure key components.

The “IT Security Made in EU” trust seal is awarded to companies that are headquartered in the EU, offering trustworthy IT security solutions, are not offering solutions that contain non-declared backdoors, are conducting IT security reasearch and development in the EU and are compliant with the requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT) is a broad-based competence network for IT security with members from industry, administration, consulting and research, as well as national and international partner organisations with similar goals. TeleTrusT represents the largest competence network for IT security in Germany and Europe. TeleTrusT offers interdisciplinary forums for IT security experts and promotes the exchange of information between providers, users, researchers and authorities. TeleTrusT comments on technical, political and legal issues relating to IT security and organises events and conferences. TeleTrusT is a non-profit organisation whose goal is to promote professionalism in information security and raise awareness of best practices in all areas of information security. TeleTrusT is the carier of the European Bridge CA (EBCA; PKI trust network), the IT expert certification programmes "TeleTrusT Information Security Professional" (T.I.S.P.) and "TeleTrusT Professional for Secure Software Engineering" (T.P.S.S.E.), and provides the trust seals "IT Security made in Germany" and "IT Security made in EU". TeleTrusT is a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The association is based in Berlin.