About Our Company

Creating a Brand for The CISO.

The initial idea has always been to create a brand that is tailored around the CISO. Looking at the trajectory of the security industry, we felt that a lot of innovation was happening on the commercial product side but only little focus is placed on the CISO himself, as the one responsible.

Given the poor security status quo of most companies, clearly just “more of the same products” is not what is needed. CISOCON stands for solutions, solutions that cut through complexity and focus on what's truly important for CISOs to outsmart and outmanoeuvre​ attackers.

 

Our Founders

  • Christian Matthies

    Christian set the roots for his professional career early on as a kid, when he was obsessed with books on software engineering and scalability. Starting out as a developer, he however quickly transitioned into the security space when he discovered how insecure the internet was as a consequence of how things were taught back in the day.

    Since 2003, he has worked 10 years in the field of hacking & exploitation (Google, Apple) and eventually became a security leader in different companies (Zalando, TeamViewer), fascinated by rethinking security defense.

    After being fortunate enough to work with countless businesses and technology leaders over the years, Christian today is one of the most reputable CISOs out there.

  • Eric Berger

    Eric started writing code as a teenager and later on discovered a passion around digital business models. Studying economics and computer science was the logical consequence for him.

    After several years as a software developer, IT and management consultant, Eric co-founded freenet in Hamburg at the end of the 1990s. As a manager in freenet for over 10 years, he helped shape the company’s rapid growth and built up numerous successful digital products, services and platforms in various market segments.

    Security has always been a key topic that Eric pushed in each of his business ventures. When he met Christian in 2017, their shared desire to innovate and disrupt has sparked many discussions and completely new ideas. Together, they founded CISOCON in 2018 with a big vision to put all of these ideas into practice.