“We are very happy to welcome Marcus onboard as he brings vital competence and experience within the commercial side of advanced networking and cybersecurity” says Martin Eriksson, Managing Director of Xertified. Marcus will lead the activities related to the commercial side of the business, as well as keep the company adjusted for trends in the market and in the industry.

Marcus has extensive expertise of leading teams within sales, and implementation of network and cyber security products. He holds a degree in advanced networking, and has also obtained several industry known certificates and have worked in key roles at Juniper, Cisco, Aruba/HPE, Net Insight, Verizon and Ericsson. Marcus will be based at Xertified office in Stockholm, co-located with Combient at Mäster Samuelsgatan 56 and can also be reached at [email protected] or +46 761 0055 73

Expisoft and Xertified strengthen the partnership and offers a join solution with undeniable digital identities for both users and devices, or man and machine if you will. This means that regardless of who or what that originates the communication and regardless of who or what you want to connect to, or communicate with, undeniable digital identities are used to create highest possible level of security.

Together the two companies have created a one-stop-shop for certificates and digital identities throughout any organisation and any business. When everything becomes connected and IT and OT merges it is necessary to ensure that only trusted individuals can access connected devices and this is exactly what is created in the joint approach to secure anything from society critical infrastructure and other key organisations to manufacturing industries.

Xertified has secured SEK 40M from a group of industrial partners, including MW Group and Combient as well as one of Swedens largest family offices and Volvo Group CEO Martin Lundstedt.

Together with MW Group Xertified will approach and support defense operators in the Nordics, key players in the defense industry and society critical infrastructure organisations.

Together with Combient Xertified will work with leading industry and service organisation in the Nordics, not only to secure these operations but also to enable new business opportunities that arises from additional communication capabilities.

The new board of directors consists of Anders Ericsson (co-founder), Anders Ösund (VP technology & innovation, Combient), Mikael Karlsson (founder and CEO, MW Group) and Johan Lärksäter (independent, Business Unit Director, Arrow).

Atea becomes a distributor of Xertified products and services under the brand XoT technology™ and together the parties will deliver a cybersecurity solution to Testa Center as a start of this long-term cooperation.

Xertified’s business model is based on distributors and OEM partners that can enhance the XoT technology™ offerings into various market segments to complement the wide variety of security solutions out there, in both IT and OT environments.

“Adding Atea to our partner-list is a natural step in expanding the business in the Swedish and Nordic markets and we are proud to be working with a company that spans over a very interesting geography, all the way to the Baltics and that serves a huge customer base with relevant IT solutions”, says Martin Eriksson, Managing Director of Xertified.