Collaboration between Secusmart and the
University of Düsseldorf
Solving the demand for specialists: Secusmart cultivates intensive
relationships with the specialists of tomorrow
Düsseldorf, July 7, 2015 – IT and telecommunications are a growing market,
as students at the University of Düsseldorf are well aware. And some of them are
already taking advantage of the opportunity to get a taste of how things work at
international company Secusmart (www.secusmart.com), a subsidiary of
Blackberry, working in various departments including backend and software
development and actively contributing to high-tech innovations. "We are
delighted to be collaborating closely with an innovative company like Secusmart.
This is how scholarship can be converted into tangible results and young ideas
can complement existing IT and developer expertise", says Dr. Dirk Ebling, Vice
President for Research and Transfer at the University of Düsseldorf.
Secusmart – just a stone's throw away
By 2018, all the faculties of the University of Düsseldorf will have moved to their
new home near to Secusmart. "Once we have completed the move at the
University of Düsseldorf, ‘Media Informatics’ students will be within walking
distance of Secusmart. It couldn't be better for us, as it will put us first in line to
tap into a pool of qualified specialists", says Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, Managing
Director of Secusmart.
Joint future development
The five „Media Informatics” students currently working at Secusmart all
completed a hands-on internship for a semester at the company first.
The students include:
Gregor Hildebrand, who is writing his bachelor's dissertation at Secusmart, and
Martin Busch, also in his 10th semester at the university. Leon Hörner has been
part of the backend team for two years and is in his 8th semester, as is Christian
Wasser. "Secusmart is on the path to success in a growing market. Having the
opportunity to get stuck in can only be beneficial for the future", says Christian.
And that view is backed up by David Kurka, in the 10th semester of his bachelor
degree and already with two years behind him at Secusmart. In a team with
Secusmart developer Jan-Peter Strömann, he is developing an app that will be
used in the German armed forces with the SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10.
For further information regarding opportunities for students from the University
of Düsseldorf at the BlackBerry subsidiary Secusmart, please contact
hr@secusmart.com.
Secusmart GmbH (www.secusmart.com), a subsidiary of BlackBerry® (BlackBerry – NASDAQ:
BBRY, TSX:BB), is a leading expert in the development and implementation of comprehensive
solutions for protecting businesses and governments from electronic eavesdropping. The
Düsseldorf-based company’s latest innovation is the high-security SecuTABLET, which has been
created with IBM and Samsung for use by national and international government agencies and
companies. The anti-eavesdropping app Vodafone Secure Call ensures secure mobile voice calls
can be made regardless of the platform and device being used. Since the start of 2015, the
solution developed by Secusmart for securing communications has been sold to German business
customers by Vodafone Germany, the system’s first marketing and distribution partner. With its
SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10 high-security solution, Secusmart also protects the mobile
communications of German and foreign governments as well as agencies and organisations with
security tasks.
Contact:
Secusmart GmbH, Heinrichstraße 155, 40239 Düsseldorf, Germany, Press Contact Swenja Kremer,
Phone: + 49 (0)211-447399-251, Mobile: + 49 (0)151-54360563, fax: + 49 (0)211-447396-251,
email: presse@secusmart.com, Website: www.secusmart.com, Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SwenjaKremer
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