Foundation of Bare.ID GmbH

**With the founding of Bare.ID GmbH, the internationally positioned AOE Group is significantly expanding its commitment in the Cybersecurity segment. The aim is to focus on the further development of solutions and services in the growth market of cybersecurity, and to further sharpen the positioning of the AOE Group as an end-to-end partner for IT security.

Bare.ID stands for simple, pragmatic and quickly implementable solutions in the field of cybersecurity. Companies of any size and industry can access a fully-managed-as-a-service identity, authentication and authorization solution in the cloud. Hosted exclusively in German data centers as a central single sign-on authentication and authorization point, Bare.ID's identity management solution administers a directory of identities (PII) as well as their access rights to the various applications.

We are very excited about the launch of Bare.ID as a new part of AOE. Innovative ideas in particular need a dynamic environment and lean processes in order to develop sustainably. With Bare.ID, cybersecurity is now concrete, tangible and easy to implement for every company," says Kian Gould, founder and CEO of AOE GmbH. "At the same time, potential customers have a professional cybersecurity partner at their side with Bare.ID, because the startup is backed by long-time experienced, certified consultants and developers from AOE's IT security division."

Thanks to Bare.ID's fully managed Software-as-a-Service solution, issues such as hosting, operation, updates or maintenance will no longer play a role for customers in the future. Using and extensively extending RedHat's open source IAM framework Keycloak, Bare.ID guarantees maximum security standards and complies with the highest German data protection regulations. Customers benefit from a worry-free, legally compliant and secure deployment without the need to build up their own resources.

Cybersecurity has been gaining in importance for several years, and German medium-sized companies in particular are increasingly the focus of international cybercrime. However, securing their own systems is very costly for these companies, the problems are often too abstract. At Bare.ID we support these companies especially in the areas of securing login processes and their administration (IAM) as well as with a security audit of modern web applications. As a gateway between on-premise IT and future-oriented cloud applications, we create the secure basis for hybrid IT and business models as well as secure access to all company tools with central SSO and central employee authentication. We have already successfully implemented initial customer projects in the public sector," explains Steffen Ritter, Commercial Director Cybersecurity at AOE GmbH and member of the Bare.ID management team. "I am very pleased to be able to make an important contribution to, help shape and strengthen cybersecurity in Germany in the future. 100% GDPR compliant - 100% secure - 100% in Germany," Ritter sums up.

Press contact:

Bare.ID GmbH
Steffen Ritter
0611 945 735 0
info@bare.id
www.bare.id

About Bare.ID GmbH

Bare.ID is a part of the AOE Group, one of the leading service providers for digital transformation headquartered in Wiesbaden, the capital of the German state of Hesse. The company specializes in cybersecurity and offers customers, among other things, a fully-managed-as-a-service identity, authentication and authorization solution hosted exclusively in German data centers. Bare.ID's core technological expertise lies in OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0, which the company integrates into its customers' security architectures and workflows using open source components such as Keycloak. The AOE Group is a member of the German Federal Association for IT Security (Bundesverband IT-Sicherheit e. V.), as well as the German Society for Data Protection and Data Security (Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit e.V.) and the Cloud Services Made in Germany initiative. AOE is an agile software service provider for digital solutions in the enterprise sector. Based on over 20 years of enterprise open source expertise, more than 250 employees at eight global locations develop digital product, portal, e-commerce and marketplace solutions. The group of companies supports