Encouraging entrepreneurship in Europe is a key part of the EIT's mission. Trifense is one of the 9 companies that was selected by EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (here, EIT ICT Labs) for the EIT Awards 2012.
The elevator pitch: A premium supplier of innovative, high-quality network security technology to protect corporate networks against tomorrow's cyber-attacks.
The founders: Patrick Duessel, Christian Gehl, René Gerstenberger. Computer scientists, and research associates with more than five years' R&D experience at the German Fraunhofer Institute and Technical University Berlin. Their research focus: machine learning and network security.
http://www.eitawards.eu/factsheet_ictlabs_trifense.aspx