Who would have thought...? What began ten years ago as a crazy idea has by now secured the energy supply of more than 29 million people in Germany alone, and has become an integral part of one of the world's largest and most experienced providers of energy management systems since 2021 - Landis+Gyr. Rhebo celebrates its tenth anniversary. Time to look back on what has not always been an easy journey.
The story of Rhebo begins a little earlier than 2014, and not just as one of the many digital product ideas for which a need must first be artificially created.
The three founders Martin Menschner, Klaus Mochalski and Dr. Frank Stummer had already successfully led two IT security companies (Adyton and ipoque) to an exit. In discussions with customers of the two companies between 2008 and 2013, the question of how industrial networks could be protected alongside IT came up time and again. This interest was triggered not least by the first two malware programs for control technology called Stuxnet and Havex, which were discovered in 2010 and 2013 respectively.
Before 2014, there was no concrete, effective solution for the area that would years later be given a clear name, Operational Technology or OT. This made the mission clear for founders Martin Menschner, Klaus Mochalski and Dr. Frank Stummer. The wheel was set in motion.
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